Ressources

This is an ideosyncratic list of inspirational ressources that formed the background for, or came up during ou CultureLab sessions.

Research Cultures

Techniques for procedural/constrained writing:

• Antena, How to Write (More). Libros Antena / Antena Books, 2013

• OiLiPo methods: https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/oulipo.php 

On the importance of building culture through participation, and methods for resisting unhealthy cultures:

• Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, 1853

On Research culture

• The Royal Society: https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/research-culture/

• Wellcome Trust: https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/research-culture

• Science Europe: https://scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/research-culture/ 

• Five ways to work with research culture: Ayres, Z. "Five ways team leaders can improve research culture". Nature Reviews: Materials 6, 758–759, 2021.

Scenes from Science – Affect

On emotions in science:

• Anatolii Kozlov, “Emotions in scientific practice,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48(2): 329-348, 2023.

• Laura Candiotto. "Epistemic Emotions and Co-inquiry: A Situated Approach", Topoi 41(5): 839-848, 2022.

On using emotions in your scientific work:

• Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. Henry Holt and Company, 1984.

• Karin Korr-Cetina, “Objectual Practice”, The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Taylor & Francis Group, 2001.

On adverse emotional effects of bad research cultures:

• Chris Woolston, "How burnout and imposter syndrome blight scientific careers", Nature: Career Feature, 2021.

• Shannon Hall, "A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame", Nature: News Feature, 2023.

Scenes from Science – Socialities

On social dimensions in scientific knowledge-production:

• Karin Korr-Cetina, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Harvard University Press, 1999.

• Helen Longino, "The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019.

On laboratory relations:

• Bruno Latour and Steve WooIgar. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton University Press, 1986. 

• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. "Rhizome". In A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi. New York: Continuum, 2004/1980, pp.3-28.

Inspiration for exercise (drawing, listing, mapping):

• Bruno Latour, "Drawing Things Together", in The Map Reader (eds M. Dodge, R. Kitchin and C. Perkins), 2011.

• Annemarie Mol & John Law, "Complexities: An introduction", in Complexities Social Studies of Knowledge Practices. Duke University Press, 2002, pp.1-22.

• Adele E. Clarke, "Situational Analyses: Grounded Theory Mapping After the Postmodern Turn", Symbolic Interaction, 26: 553-576, 2003.

Scenes from Science – Ideals and utopias

On ideals and utopias of science, and utopian thinking:

• Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser & Evan Thompson, "The blind spot", Aeon 8 January 2019.

• Everett Mendelsohn & Helga Nowotny (eds.), Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia. Springer 1984.

• Elisabeth Nemeth, "Otto Neurath’s Utopias – The Will to Hope", in: Uebel, T.E. (eds) Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle. Springer, Dordrecht, 1991, pp.285-292.

Inspiration for embodied scenes method based on contrasts in ideals:

• Gabriele Sofia, "The Effect of Theatre Training on Cognitive Functions", in: N. Shaughnessy (Ed.). Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being . London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013, pp.171–180.

• Virginia J Flood, "Embodiment in Education", in: Shapiro, L., & Spaulding, S. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (2nd ed.). Routledge, 2024.

• Noël Greig, Playwriting: A Practical Guide, Routledge, 2005.

• Theatre Haus, "Dramatic Devices: Contrast", 27 April 2021: https://www.theatrehaus.com/2021/04/dramatic-devices-contrast/

Translations 1 – Mother tongues, language, and the Anglo-sphere

• Rahul Roy, "How being multilingual both helps and hinders me and my science", Nature Career Coloumn, November 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03533-9

Translations 2 – Writing habits, Writing formats

On Haiku and/for science

• The Sciku Project [Science Haiku]: https://thescikuproject.com 

• Elemental Haiku, Science Magazine: https://vis.sciencemag.org/chemhaiku/ 

On writing habits

• David Lomas,"Becoming a machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances", Tate Papers. Autumn 2012https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/18/becoming-machine-surrealist-automatism-and-some-contemporary-instances 

Translations 3 – Chains of translation from concept to experiment and back

On creativity and outdoor movement

• Wickson, F., Strand, R. & Kjølberg, K.L. The Walkshop Approach to Science and Technology Ethics. Sci Eng Ethics 21, 241–264 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9526-z 

• May Wong, "Stanford study finds walking improves creativity", Stanford University News, 2014. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/04/walking-vs-sitting-042414