Covenor:
Professor Michael Punt
University of Plymouth,
Portland Square,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth,
Devon
PL4 8AA UK
mpunt@plymouth.ac.uk
Transtechnology Research is a transdisciplinary research group situated in
the Faculty of Arts. Its constituency is drawn from historians,
philosophers, anthropologists, artists and designers and is led from a
historical and theoretical perspective with the objective of understanding
science and technology as a manifestation of a range of human desires and
cultural imperatives.
Its key focus is to understand how a technology acquires meaning and it is
used after it enters into the public domain. Using a range of practice and
theory based methods the group is interested in making apparent evidence of
human desire and cultural imperatives as they are manifested in the way
that science and technology is practiced, innovated by entrepreneurs and
interpreted by its users.
Topics currently being researched concern the historical and philosophical
aspects of nineteenth century media and contemporary digital technology,
early cinema and the technological imaginary, cognitive aspects of
industrial design, affective interaction, and instrumentation.
Transtechnology Research is a constituent member of AZTEC, a university wide
consortium of researchers concerned with the interface between the arts,
sciences and technology. It is also the UK editorial office of Leonardo and
the International Office of Leonardo Reviews. (www.leonardo.info)