This workshop will step up to the challenge of formulating a new transdisciplinary theory of human co-operation, taking as its point of departure the three maxims above that have been distilled from a survey of existing research literature. The workshop brings together three projects in the CRC Media of Co-operation. P02 Anthropology of Co-operation leads the workshop. Through its research into the intellectual history of the concepts of co-operation and interaction, it will sketch a background against which the new theory can be developed. P01 Multisensory Mediality and Co-operative Practice, which investigates multisensorial practices from an ethnomethodological perspective, will provide theoretical and empirical resources for the construction of the new theory. B05 (Early) Childhood and Smartphone, looking back at a decade of empirical research into the use and interaction of small children with smartphones and other digital media, will contribute key insights into developmental aspects of pointing, touch and co-operation. 

Invited speakers:

Ellen Fricke (TU Dresden)
Jürgen Streeck (UT Austin)
Michel Lefèvre (Montpellier)

With contributions by Alexandre Métraux (Nancy)