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P313


Making and doing ageing and technology 
Convenors:
Susan van Hees (Utrecht University)
Carla Greubel (Utrecht university)
Wendy Martin (Brunel University London)
Alexander Peine (Open University of The Netherlands)
Nete Schwennesen (Roskilde University)
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Format:
Combined Format Open Panel
Location:
Agora 4, main building
Sessions:
Thursday 18 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

In the past decade, STS has produced a number of critical studies on ageing and technology in close collaboration with other fields. In this panel, we zoom in on our position as critical scholars when we are involved in projects or initiatives in the broad field of ageing and technologies.

Long Abstract:

In the past decade, STS has produced a number of critical studies on ageing and technology in close collaboration with other fields of critical inquiry such as Social and Cultural Gerontology or Age Studies. These include critical studies of technologies that are presented as solutions for current and future challenges related to ageing societies, and studies that highlight how ageing and later life are already entangled with a wide range of technical objects.

In this panel, we zoom in on our position as critical scholars when we are involved in projects or initiatives in the broad field of ageing and technologies to bring in our reflections and to foster co-creation and other forms of response-able innovation. But what does such co-creation actually mean and how do all these different forms differ? How will co-creation impact transformation in ageing innovation? What forms of care do we show when studying ageing innovations?

We are open to a variety of contributions to this panel, including theoretical and / or empirical papers, especially with an interdisciplinary focus, interactive formats, like dialogues, performative activities and workshops.

Although not limited to these suggestions, you may think of:

- Addressing urgent challenges in relation to ageing societies

- Making and doing ageing and technology and the lived experiences thereof

- Futures of studying ageing and technology and embedding in wider contexts within socieities

- Role of AI / digitization in everyday life

- Technology and conceptualizing inclusive ageing

- Co-creation in ageing and technology projects

- Imaginaries of later life, also think beyond challenges that come with ageing, but also opportunities or shifting in perspectives

- Interplay of values in the (re)making of places for ageing

Accepted contributions:

Session 1 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -