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This week, IFF directors Margaret and Christine Wertheim are presenting keynotes at the Unruly Techniques Symposium at Deakin University, Melbourne Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n Unruly Techniques:\u00a0<\/b>Linking Knowledge Practices Through Art, Science and Technology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Friday 14 August 2015, 10.00am – 5.45pm<\/b><\/p>\n The ways in which knowledge is acquired and acted upon have become increasingly unruly. That is to say, rules may be adhered to in myriad ways inflected by individual, cultural, historical and geo-political factors.<\/p>\n Cooperation and collaboration are needed to negotiate the rules of knowledge engagement and their application to common concerns regarding technological mediation, institutional structures, embodied engagement, diversity, social justice and the frontiers of the human-non-human collective.<\/p>\n At Deakin University, the Unruly Techniques Symposium provides a forum to contextualize and discuss the proposition that while innovation appears at the level of the disciplinary field of research, the production of new knowledge emerges from a complex web of techniques and practices occurring below the threshold of any particular discipline.<\/p>\n Structured around the five keynote presentations, followed by panel discussions and Q&A sessions,\u00a0the symposium aims to initiate university-wide dialogs and explore a collection of practices that best equip researchers to build practical approaches to collaboration that can inform our actions for the future.<\/p>\n