Katrin Solhdju
12 December 16.30 – 18.30
Goldsmiths MMB 220
Abstract:
We founded Dingdingdong. Institute for the co-production of knowledge about Huntington’s Diseasein 2012 as a wager: The wager that Huntington’s disease (HD) – a complex, incurable, so called neurodegenerative, and genetically transmitted late-onset disease – provides an opportunity to push thinking further! Ever since, our collective which is composed of users, physicians, researchers in the humanities, and artists, has worked on quite a number of levels at the crucial task of intervening into HD’s exclusively despairing ‘natural history’, thereby interfering with the assumption that medical ontologies are the arena of biomedical knowledge-production only.… Continue reading