[mch2021-orga] CfP & PhDs ; -)

[Patrice Riemens]

On 2020-05-07 23:29, Oscar Koeroo wrote:

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> 
> Wild idea:
> Would a request to universities be fun to do a display or
> show-and-tell in the form of a science fair? Perhaps even a challenge
> the science, but not in a tinfoil hat kind of way. ;-)
> 
> 
> Oscar


It's a nice idea in itself, but the challenge is that universities - as 
institutions, as opposed to their members, staff & students - are no 
longer interested in knowledge per se, but almost exclusively in 
managing processes, whereby knowledge functions as a never sufficient, 
and often not even necessary component. This sad reality will of course 
be vigorously and expertly 'spinned' away (innovation! creativity! 
pluri-disciplinarity! and, in case you forgot: excellence!) but the 
challenge remains not at the level of knowledge, but at the level of 
governance ...

Good luck all the same. Maybe someone in the orga should contact Peter 
Pels at Leiden university:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/peter-pels#tab-1

He's one of the very few people I know who has 'hold the fort' and 
managed to to maintain a funky knowledge environment for his students. 
He might have ideas. (I know him from my time at 'Waag' - he ran a 
workshop on computers and spirituality - 10 yrs ago orso? ;-)

Ciao Ciao,
p+2D!