[Sci-tech-public] Reminder for tomorrow: STS Brown Bag Talk -- Tuesday, November 18

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>STS Brown Bag Talk - Tuesday, November 18th
>
>Soviet Cybernetics, Design, and Control-Rooms
>
>Margareta Tillberg
>  Humboldt University; visiting researcher, the Max Planck Institute 
> for the History of Science, Berlin
>
>12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, MIT, E51-275
>
>
>Feel free to bring your lunch
>
>Abstract:
>The All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Technical Aesthetics 
>was founded in Moscow in 1962 to invent new design methods by 
>exploring the relationships
>among science, technology, and art. Artists, engineers, architects, 
>mathematicians, physiologists and economists participated in 
>multi-disciplinary research groups at the Institute. Among the 
>projects carried out at the Institute was the design of control 
>rooms for various Soviet enterprises, including nuclear power 
>plants. The visual and organizational design of these spaces 
>involved complex studies by specialists in ergonomics, engineering 
>psychology, cybernetics, and art. This paper will discuss specific 
>examples of control room design in a wider context of Soviet 
>attitudes toward industrial design.
>
>Bio:
>Dr. Margareta Tillberg is a research associate in the Department of 
>History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, 
>Stockholm, and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for 
>the History of Science in Berlin. She is the author of Coloured 
>Universe and the Russian Avant-Garde. Matiushin on Colour Vision in 
>Stalin's Russia (Stockholm, 2003). Her current project at the MPI, 
>"Observer and Observed in Soviet State Design Institutes, 
>1960s-1990s," is part of the MPI program, "The History of Scientific 
>Observation" (see 
>http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_Tillberg-ObservationSovietStateDesign/index_html 
>).
>
>
>Note:  a schedule of events for the upcoming week is posted on the 
>STS website: http://web.mit.edu/sts
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