Negotiating cultural appropriation while re-imagining co-production via Afrofuturism

Looking while imagining

Background: Subjects with hemispatial neglect often exhibit representational neglect: a failure to report details from the left side of mentally visualized images. This failure could reflect impaired ability to generate the left side of the mental image, or it could reflect failure to explore the left side of a normally generated mental image. When subjects with hemispatial neglect look at pict...

Acting while negotiating

In the convoy formation problem, two embodied agents are negotiating the synchronization of their movement for a portion of their respective paths from source to destinations. In this paper, we consider a setting in which the negotiation happens in physical time, thus the agents have the opportunity to perform actions, such as movement, while negotiating. In these settings, the agent’s behavior...

Re-Imagining Justice

Re-imagining the Urban

Context The topic of this conference – ‘the right to the city’ – implies that the city is an important social stake. By association it also suggests that the struggle is between classes. As such it raises all manner of questions about the relation between society and space, class and territory that merit attention, even concern. In understanding events in cities, can one confine oneself to an u...

Negotiating Cultural Encounters

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