Workshops
Plasticity before plasticity: an archaeology and biopolitics of biosocial entanglements Environmental epigenetics and mental health research: enacting trauma in the lab The biosocial imaginaries of epigenetics: performance, visibility, ethopolitics Vaccines' intricacies and elusive biological processes Embodiment and self-care practices: how injured runners negotiate medical expertise online Living with type 1 diabetes as a biosocial form of living Ovulation biosensors: emerging practices of sensing and knowing Restorative justice and the epigenetics of early life adversity: new approaches to the biosocial effects of trauma Treating and living endometriosis: a biosocial experience Forgetting about the sword of Damocles: how do people live with presymptomatic diagnosis? Digital biocommunities: community-building and sharing practices on blogs and forums among people diagnosed with bipolar disorder Keeping the machine in check: predictive policing and the "human in the loop" Knowing that it works: epistemologies of evaluating predictive hotspot policing Secrets as a privilege of governing: the case of QlikView/STATUS in Swedish police On the embedding of voice agents in everyday home life "Click here to delete the family group": 'smart' taxonomies and domestic life Your mother is watching you: lateral surveillance in smart homes Supporting caregivers and care recipients with home-based technology: an Amazon Alexa pilot Home energy management in smart homes: what role for householders? Engaging with smart assistants, reshaping home activities Are smart electricity display-monitors smart enough to disrupt the everyday? Prototyping a new sanitation system: socio material relations and shifting norms Encountering anthroposols: vitality, risk and anger on Tierra Amarilla Cement and the material form as bearer of responsibility and accountability Involving the future: compounding the composition of the fatberg Creating atmospheric compounds through human and nonhuman involvements Intensive scales: what is an ecologically obliged chemistry? Cosmic compounds, or electromagnetic politics against the Anthropocene Making urban worlds: involving citizens, particles, sensors and cities An appreciation for the extraneous in medical eradication of Ebola Toxic capacities: chemopolitics and the horror of late industrialism Caring for cortisol: stress, violence and endogenous compounds Self-disclosure and community-building in open source medicinal chemistry Who decides what is fair and natural? Mayan beekeeper encounters with global fair trade cooperatives and organic product scientific standardisation and control Beekeepers, scientists, and disparate voices: understanding, and addressing pollinator decline through reconfigured environmental knowledge The 360°approach as a case of undone science: knowledges about a plant phatology in Apulia Expertise and agency in neighbourhood planning Neogeography and the insurrection of knowledges Tackling the problem of reach: a neighborhood knowledge collective in-the-making Making spaces of participation: an enquiry into researchers' and practice actors' narrations of participatory knowledge production in sustainability research Revisiting the 'thought styles' of Ludwik Fleck (1935): tracing knowledge transfer across 'thought collectives' The meshwork of local knowledge co-production When knowledge is not there yet: a semiotic approach to risk Bets, bots and bodies: erasing erroneous environments Remaking the world for reproducibility Matters of scale, or how Satellite Remote Sensing, grasslands and vegetation models meet in data 'Data basing' Danish educational governance - Relations, 'gaps' - and ontological experimentation Biodiversity databases - wishful meetings, differing ontologies European Natural History Museums as part of a global biodiversity-research infrastructure To share or not to share: following the journeys of the data collected by citizen scientists The role of framing technologies used by techno-scientific experts to make secondary resources Energy from magma: the emergence of a new 'science infrastructure' Geocapital: geological expertise, financialised valuation & extractive industry frontiers Lunar extractivism: scientists and mining companies' shared ambitions in the European Space Agency's Moon Village concept Making coltan. Technologies, expertise, and knowledge in Sierra Leone mining International expertise under 'controversy'. The case of the IPCC The experts network Balancing formalisation of procedures against professional judgement in synthesising science for policy purposes: the case of the IPCC Why is there early career scientists in IPCC? The IPCC as an organizer of scientific research: the case of the 1.5 Special Report Organising policy-relevant knowledge for climate action: Integrated Assessment Modelling, the IPCC, and the emergence of a collective expertise on socioeconomic emission scenarios A topography of climate change research The history and politics of the carbon budget Circularity by the numbers. Enacting and imagining the circular economy through indicators. Understanding the sustainable innovation journey of the Dutch Energy & Resource Factory Modular smartphones. Assessing a recent hype Re-ordering material flows for renewable energy production or manure management: the emergence of biogas production in Finland Manure and material politics of resource-making: the case study of Biovakka biogas company Inclusive biobased innovation for sustainability: a case study in Jamaica Treating waste for a circular economy? Limits of techno-market fixes Introducing 'care' into circular economies: implications on pro-posal, use and dis-posal Digital platforms in the sharing economy: from matchmaking to boundary making University students' perspectives of a Smart City: integrating needs and aspirations Towards the smart city 2.0: smartness as a tool for tackling social problems Could smart community improve healthcare efficiency? Heating controllers as boundary objects between homes and energy infrastructures Creating energy encounters with experts: a cultural probes-based approach When institutions do not help: making and mending sustainable energy systems at home Techno-scientific promises as a negation of the future. The case of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Korean traditional beliefs and energy transition: pungsu, shamanism, and the local perception of wind turbines Nuancing NIMBYism: examining perspectives on the practice of community engagement in energy projects Smart solutions, private households and control; a case study of experimental projects Switching things on and off: encountering and monetising demand-responsiveness in dispersed electricity-using technologies Using boundary object-theory as a framework for understanding adoption of renewable energy innovations in housing: building and HPAC -plan Sustainable chemistry: concept, actors and activities Use and representation of substances. Experimentation in natural science lessons Chemicals in daily life - an emerging concern ignored in Portugal? Making chemical infrastructures (in)visible: environmental imaginaries and the environmental sciences of antimicrobial resistance Interdisciplinary study of the management at the source of pharmaceutical residues in the hospital: a chemical and a sociological analysis Plastic matters: the material politics of microplastics at the Environment Agency Austria Epistemic regimes: the case of regulating chemicals in the European Union Cosmopolicy-in-practice Landscape and heterotopia in New Zealand: conflict over oil and gas development Can the STS scholar speak? Or what are the conditions necessary for telling stories in academia? Beach encounters: narrating the refugee crisis and its material traces Views from the edge: prototyping rapid ethnographic methods in Madeira We come to sublime electric worlds Reading examinations on Tibetan maps 1886: cartographic practices and the displacement of ontological world in modernity Memory and the cityscape. Assemblage thinking in memories about the AIDS epidemic in New York City. Caring for the canal: exploring water management and cuidar Groundwater and pataler pani in Dhaka Mixing dirt with water. Or, on the importance of keeping the bacteria content On Sámi words and lakes: mistranslation as colonisation Schoon and other goods pertinent to water care in the Netherlands The continuity and translations of the river Emscher Water, solidarity and the hereafter in Madagascar: or how to keep society and the pump running? Ways of encountering water: ethics of freediving "My genes are in mice": intimate encounters in co-clinical trials Embodiment, affect and the transformation of HIV: intimate knowledge and biomedical consensus Transgenerational epigenetics: intimate entanglements between being and knowing in a contested field Accomplishing complex genomic based multi-arm trials: Working with tissue, time and value The intimacy of collaboration and resistance: patient organizations, gynecological cancer and changing lives The practiced intimacies of heat: negotiating the energetic imbrications of working and researching bodies Knowledge, intimacy & being alongside the life sciences of ageing Abundance in the Anthropocene Objectual companionship? Intimating with objects at the end of their lives Affectivity and data-visualisation entanglements in the (re)invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging technologies Good at heart. Fetal heartbeat listening practices in midwifery care in Germany Biophilic entanglements - intimate life in urban environments Intimacy over 'evidence': disrupting modes of knowing drug-related harm Meteorology for 'marginal climates': colonial science in British East Africa The rain, the return, and the credit. Turning climate change into an insurable risk in Senegal The New Oil Frontiers: Traceability, transparency and the governance of sustainability Staying with speculation: natures, futures, politics Exoplanetology as "proximisation" policy Towards an anthropology of gravity: body and affect in the extra-terrestrial Terracentric ontologies/epistemologies and the limits of thinking outside and beyond the Earth Unearthing the Moon's secrets: science and extractivism in ESA's and NASA's lunar station concepts On the social afterlife of space-junk Space tourism: a case of novel needs Crafting the sustainable future: the values, knowledge and technology of Lammas ecovillage Green futures between respecting and transgressing boundaries Hopeful extinctions? Tesla, technological solutionism and the Anthropocene Modes of urban greening? Civic urban natures in-between familiar engagement and green critique Science, faith and environmental apocalypse Visions of green futures in energy research De-scription of security technologies: countering terrorist financing in financial institutions The making of (digital) space for European border security Right engineering for smart infrastructures? Tracing the techno-epistemic network of privacy by design Chemical entanglements in air pollution science and research Representation in nineteenth century chemistry Biopolitics, or a chemical society Hypermetabolic N: the social life of nitrogen Nitrogen - too much of a good thing? Doing and re-doing phosphorus relations Of indivisible a-toms and nuclear life worlds: an ethnographic framing of socio-chemical transformations in West Cumbria Sorting out the particles: following nano-particulates and their mobilities Troubled Orbits, Earthly Politics: The Securitization of Space Debris in the New Space Age
Silicon Valley and the multiplanetary imaginary Innovation meets Outer Space: transforming networks, organisations and people Meet the solar monster: space weather security in the data centre industry Locating the data centre. Attending to place in the study of cloud computing Prospecting the domains: data, knowledge, software and much else The more GPUs you buy, the more money you save: images in data centres Preparing for future value - collaboration in big data labs Data meets electronic waste: practices and temporalities of a transformative encounter The cloud at the horizon of the internet infrastructure Promissory collaborations: Big-Tech datacenters and the state Public perceptions of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage under different policy instrument framings The geopolitics of negative emissions Carbon removal from below: understanding tensions between discourses of drawdown versus negative emissions The politics and publics of Enhanced Weathering for carbon sequestration Perspectives on the science and politics of negative emissions in integrated assessment models Conceptual vs. actual use of Greenhouse Gas Removal The techno-politics of negative emissions Disaster on standby Participatory crisis governance and emergency planning for pandemic preparedness IsITEthical? Participatory ethics in crises Shifts in medical work following the Fukushima disaster Citizen science after the Fukushima nuclear accident: an encounter with bottom-up crisis management and post-disaster recovery Intimate evidence, experimental politics: DIY citizen sensing and the regimes of perceptibility of slow disasters Infernal encounters: extractive communities at the intersection of earth system and stratigraphic trouble Managing the "wave of helpers": socio-technical solutions for societal resilience Cultivating engagement with 'citizens' and 'consumers' - doing a citizen participation forum on vertical farming at a European food innovation consortium Sensory and embodied engagement: situating anticipation of biotechnological flavours in everyday practices The co-production of (fake) meat and masculinities Embodied citizenship - politicizing gendered inequalities in local food networks From Critter Chips to Critter Compilers - a fabulation of environmental computing otherwise Lenses and rhythms in the sea in crisis What is a dog able to do? Producing a new cosmopolitan antropozoogenesis in Chilean cities Crafting geographies of human-wildlife encounter: visual praxiography in more-than-human worlds Hybrid assemblages on the move: a more-than-human understanding of pandemic threat identification and governance More-than-human hypermobilities: unravelling the entanglements and resonances of air travel in the Anthropocene The more-than of acceptable resonances in traffic mobilities Affective encounters with pollution data: growing augmented reality trees The rise of big data (technologies) as Eurocentric and androcentric endeavor Learning in the wild: on the problem of adaptivity in machine learning Exploring the bias in de-biasing Auto-management as governance? Predictive analytics in counter-insurgency and marketing Whose knowledge, whose power? Investigating principles of machine learning from a feminist epistemological perspective Trust and machine learning PRECOBS: theory- and correlation-based construction of crime futures Continuities and discontinuities in the governance of motorized and autonomous traffic Shaping haptics, meeting humans: data-clustering algorithms in human-robot-collaborations Bias in, bias out: urban mobility in data science for social good Data infrastructures for all: the case of community networks and the DiY IoT Scene Geographies of light, affective atmospheres and digital sensory enhancements What is a poison? Disambiguation and ethics in the agrochemical industry Toxic technology: a risk discourse on agrochemicals in Cameroon Grounding the data: community-based toxicology in Northern Alberta, Canada Chemicals in the 21st century: morphing models, blurring boundaries The materiality of invisibility: on making EDCs into actionable objects Meeting photovoltaics: a plea for technoecological analysis Wind, power, and the situatedness of community engagement Enacting a responsive energy technology in the aftermath of a disaster: locality, materiality and an alternative imagination Food that matters: exploring the material-discursive boundaries between animal-sourced and vegan food practicesOnly papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Authenticating manufactured human cells for regenerative medicine T-cell immunotherapy an ethnographic case study in progress: a donors registry and a cell bank Big Tissue: on mass producing body parts in vitro The promise and challenges of human and animal stem cell tissue economies Scaffolding expertise: from expectations to interventions in the development of biofabrication 3D bioprinting for medical and enhancement purposes: scenarios and options for European policy Governing crowd-based innovations: sociotechnical reconfiguration through institutional work Citizen participation in open design for sustainable energy system Human agency in post-automation: an analysis into the appropriation of digital design and fabrication technologies by crafters and coders in non-industrial settings Open manufacturing as an alternative path for Industry 4.0 "Clean enough": attachments and detachments in practices of excretion Curated detachment: how to translate aesthetic experiences of 'ugly socialism' into 'beautiful modernism' Making clients to decide for themselves: turning people with learning difficulties into "modern subjects" Mexicanness, hybrid attachments and the economy of passion Non-interventions as form of care On getting attached to music. Strategies and drivers of loving music in everyday life. Persistent attachments: chronic pain and the post-ANT theoretical repertoire Crafting education: professionalization of makers in a collaboration with schools Organizing inclusion: getting through the borders of innovative communities Promissory equipment: the fabric of participation in DIY practices Stabilized instability. hacking tournament as a laboratory Structures of emancipation in design-centered makerspaces The boundaries of open data: digitally mapping displacement as an anti-capitalist collective The co-laborator: place-making through laboratization practices in a living lab construction Turning utopias into material: spaces of cultural and technical experimentation in Helsinki Situating design in architecture: reflections on spatial-visual knowledge in architectural design education (Re)framing engagements in and with design - abduction, design synthesis, and the implication of heterogeneous actors through 'domestication'. Who gets to situate design? Reflections from engaging with diversity in design. The mundane and strategic work in collaborative design Situating design in a mobile phone research intervention to train Kenyan health workers: the design-reality gap as a lateral concept Meeting users and meeting needs - negotiating use in assistive technologies Makeshift Engineering: practicing the craft of locally manufactured small wind turbines Radical engineering: an ethnography of promise Ordering the mess of everyday traffic "Please make a legal U-turn". Construction works along navigation routes Organising demonstrations of public transport disruption: transport for London's use of social media management software Navigations to personalized destinations: Foursquare and the calculation of subjects of locational tastes Hold it together: thresholds of understanding when building routing software Why fabulate design? Time travel as research method for reverse engineering feminist archives Sensing a constellation: dancing forward a desirable future Re-crafting indexical issues: a spherology of feminisms explicated by visual means Meeting in collaborative figurations Modelling cells in risky comakings and devious worlds Living in/as im/possibility: on our response-ability to mend Opening an ecological differently speculative ethics? Crafting companions and cyborgs: anger and attachment "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess": the meeting place/time of the spiral dance Mother nature, earth as mother and queer cyborggoddesses: refiguring (eco)feminist genealogies through Clayoquot Sound "... but the visual orientation of the mind persists". Of Kellerites, body talk and golden gypsies, so far: a journey to the inspirational roots of situated knowledges Describing the unexplained: rethinking the 'thin' and the 'thick' as practical problems for anthropology Taking sides: the syringe and the problem of description Just what are we doing when we're describing AI? Harvey Sacks, the commentator machine and the descriptive turn in artificial intelligence The art of description in establishing failures in healthcare In between silence and re-describing matters of care: an attempt at ethnography of cognitive dis/abilityOnly papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Assembling and disassembling ethical controversies of familial searching: the cases of the UK and Poland Forensic DNA retention: public perspective studies in the United Kingdom and around the world Intersecting discourses of security, commerce and race. Forensic DNA phenotyping and biogeographical ancestry prediction in the German public debate The "technopolitics of likelihood": the French National DNA Database (FNAEG) and the comparison of genetic profiles The death, the living and the disappeared: bringing back absent bodies in mass atrocities through DNA, and cybernetic citizenship “We must communicate the value of chemistry”. Producing order through publishing infrastructures in chemistry professional conferences Conferences: tracking shifts in disciplinary boundaries and professional hierarchies Women's conferences in computer science: separating the advocates from the advocated for Big pharma in public behind closed doors Responsible innovation in action: spaces for socio-ethical reflection on synthetic biology. Citizens' negotiations of information, value and reciprocity in the biobank context Empirical imaginaries of care robots in a children's hospital Who's afraid of ghosts? Ethics, data, and disconnected collaboration in epidemiological research Epistemic authority in deliberative and interpretive empirical bioethics Empirical bioethics provocation: getting our hands dirty - necessary tensions in intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration and co-production Negotiating bioethics of reproductive donation in Taiwan and Japan New cooperation between social psychiatry and the housing industry in Berlin: staging para-sites from within an urban assembly. "Follow your concept work": juxtaposing two research projects on `Genesungsbegleitung` and their moments of friction "Inchoate Potential": Therapeutic and Ethnographic Reflections in Dialogic Practice Bio-sensing in research on the city-psychosis nexus: theoretical and methodological challenges of a mixed-method approach Rethinking the great divide: probing the tensions between anthropologists and data scientists through situated interventions The formation of interest within "elusive networks" and the role of the anthropologist.
Sticky business: techniques to engage with the viscosity of practices in healthcare Access to equipment and epistemic injustices within scientific research Can GIS help with the equitable targeting of "smart" interventions? Emerging inequalities in advocating for life itself: innovations in crowdfunding medical expenses and the assetization of moral worthiness Inequality matters - comparing discourses of innovation in UK and post-apartheid South Africa Which comes first? The construction of problems or solutions: science and technology agenda and social inequalities Who will be in charge of agency of driving? Negotiating the future of automobility between gender studies and automotive engineering Materialising demand: transforming resources and services The urban food-water-energy nexus as an ecology of practices Coordinating arrays of practice or managing intermittent oligoptica? Reflections from the intersection of households and home heating, STS and practice theory The texture of the terrain Bioengineering as a site of bio-objectivation Bio-objectification and interdisciplinarity: the case of a Norwegian project on tissue engineering Making bio-objects mobile Information and the biopolitical: thinking across bio-objects Meeting success and failure in Alzheimer's disease drug development. Ethnography and the "Smart City" Strategic planning and the 'smartification' of the city Meeting of the minds. Or: on building walls instead of bridges Imaginary friends - interdisciplinarity and digitalization as two imaginaries covering each other's back in times of uncertainty Cultivating and hampering interdisciplinary meetings: the role of institutional work 'Doing' interdisciplinarity - experiences of researchers in urban sustainability Interdisciplinary research in law and forensic science: from 'silos' to systems. Pursuing knowledge integration between modernist and reflexive cultures: lessons learned from two organised spaces for epistemic alignment Serious yet playful: the benefits of play when social scientists and synthetic biologists meet To collaborate interdisciplinarily but work disciplinarily? Trading zone and the cognitive dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration Anticolonial science and technology: seizing the means of liberation? Why Bogotá? The local, the global, and the interesting. Or: STS, here and there Banking on blood: the science, market and traditional methods of umbilical cord blood storage in South India Potentials of a widened concept of culture for gender research in STS. The example of Chinese and Indian female doctoral researchers in computer science at German universities The Alleluia syncretic revitalization movement Uses of ANT in design research: towards a critical dialogue Doing ethnography at home: a reflection from post-disaster Fukushima Togetherness and co-creation in a VUCA-world - chances and challenges When engineering practices encountered the unacceptable, unpredictable, unthinkable: how STS can shed light on engineering education reform in Taiwan Datafied spaces: (re)figurating the city as laboratory Exploring problem-centred smart / digital urbanism in Australia Partial platforms: the everyday life of oligoptic geospatial technologies in the neoliberal city Smart cities in the making: learning from Milton Keynes The smart city as conscription device: negotiating the politics of emptiness in Santiago de Chile Enacting social difference through smart city tech: the gathering of groupings through a platform Transformative visions of IoT: whose visions, whose rights, whose responsibilities? Reconfiguring 'sexting': contrasting interventions in contentious debates Reconfiguring motivation as emerging motives in evolving collectives Architectural intraventions: pedagogical experiments with 'technical democracy' in design studio projects Intervening in urban strategy Co-production, intervention and experimentation in science governance: STS and Future Earth Doing participatory urbanism: traps and tropes for technical democratization Smuggling everyday Quality of Life into conventional oncological treatment. From idiotic questions to the co-production of knowledge - reflections on in-tervention as method in research with/ on a highly specialized field Integrating different knowledges in clinical practice guidelines: exploring the third space between epidemiology and science and technology studies Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in turbulent times: how the British broader political context is shaping the RRI practices of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Protecting and perfecting nature: performing responsibility in academic-industry collaboration Conceptualising the individual in the innovation discourse: implications for development A citizen data app as an emergent para-site for official statistics: imagining citizens as more than data collectors and subjects Acts of digital parasitism: data, humanitarian apps and platform economies Agencies in the database: the role of flagging Death, taxes and gases: the issuefication of data and the datafication of issues Emerging data infrastructures and ethnographic world-making Fintech apps and data-driven irrationalities: speculation in the face of precarity Grounding public engagement in data: some experiments to 'issue-fy' vertical farming Instrumental, collaborative, agonistic: a spectrum of civic data projects in Los Angeles Intervening in data infrastructure using ontological switches Open data infrastructures: the tension between attachment, detachment and reattachment Research portfolios as tools for opening up deliberations on priority setting Situational analytics Teaching to problematise digital infrastructures through data activism Where's the database in digital ethnography? Exploring database ethnography for open data and smart cities research "Feed 'em and flog 'em": socio-technical enactments of togetherness in ambulance work Hackathons as space-times of creative togetherness: dystopian and utopian hues of ideals and their realisation Makings of togetherness in blood Risky borders: designing togetherness using information technology for interoperability in disaster response Sound publics: imaginations of the public inscribed in a Japanese public loudspeaker system Taking responsibility together: unpacking promises and problems in civic hacking Traveling together: bioships in science fiction Climate intervention: new and emerging opportunities in STS Between magic and hubris: the geoengineering turn in climate policy and the global South What is responsible climate geoengineering? Contested notions of responsibility in climate engineering expert discourses Diverging imaginations of climate engineering: how different scientific communities construct climate engineering promises Techno-fixes in theory and (political) practice: conditions and challenges for policy implementation Constitutional climates: solar geoengineering in the co-production of climate expertise and global order 'One is hypothetical and one is real…'. Accounting for "error" in low-carbon building performance The zero emission kindergarten at Lø: a contested site for a zero emission future Regulation and performance: lessons from the first and the second passive house school in Norway Towards the emergence of a zero carbon building sector in France: reflecting on the appropriation of regulation in online discussion forums Mainstreaming passive houses in Sweden: institutional perspectives from two regions Mainstreaming energy efficient buildings in Austria Coding for the common good - writing software in organizations with care Error-driven development? On confluences between agile development methods, the character of software and errors as actors The dependence of agile software project organization on agile software development tools Softare and organizing: the case of a telemedicine toolkit to manage emergencies in nursing homes Bringing data home: Agile transformations through the lens of a public IT project How the 'material agency' of computer programs manifests itself in project meetings The “invisible work” of data management systems in Big Science: following the development of the European Spallation Source Organising control: a study of the collaborative production of free software "Don't let them feed you with organic sorts": demystifying 'organic' ordering on social media with rhythmedia "Epistemic participation" - co-creation of legitimate scientific knowledge and policy under the condition of extreme uncertainty Meaningful co-creation and collaboration: how high do the stakes have to be? When co-creation of citizen science drives empowerment: an example from the mental health community Citizen science from below or from above: a tale of two projects The barriers and opportunities to participation in the Empty Houses Project: crowdsourced citizen social science for more socially robust knowledge Re-situating participatory social research in Citizen Social Science A history and vision of participatory scientific activities in South Korea Epistemic cultures in citizen science and humanities: distribution, epistemic subjects, programs and anti-programs Radiation monitoring after Fukushima: rearticulating "citizen science" as active citizenship Citizen science: paving the way for automated knowledge production? Data cultures from the Global South: decentering data universalism Inverting the global internet surveillance infrastructure with IXmaps, the crowd-sourced mapping tool Broadening ideas of interoperability in citizen science STS meet Participatory Design for social good: the case of Commonfare Articulating assemblages of playbour to question participation in ICT-based collaborative platforms From the virtual communities of digital commons to the phygital practices of makerspaces: an intersectional feminist study Out here and in there: intervening in HCI's outwardly moves from the comfort of the ubicomp home Tinkering with humans? Social engineering and the construction of the "deficient user" in cyber security Security and the DevOps imaginary Whom do we fear? Between pop-cultural myth and hacking collectives - negotiations on the meaning of hack Opening (and closing) doors for security: negotiations of trust Practicing a science of security Troubling the ordering in cybersecurity research Panel discussion: researching IT security 'Built for expansion': conditions of possibility and sites of performance for the WHO's mhGAP diagnostic algorithm Aligning to variable and shifting (user-) settings in developing point-of-care diagnostics for tuberculosis and HIV Indigenous epistemologies in global health: WHO regulation of traditional medicine since Alma Ata 1978 Living-with microbes in the era of antimicrobial resistance Lords of the fly: tracing tsetse control networks and the social proximity of sleeping sickness interventions in Uganda Managing superbugs and desire to belong in Latvia Meeting the genome half way: entangled agency where the genome meets the clinic Nordic strategies to harness the "goldmine" of population data Actionable data for precision oncology: developing a trustworthy data source Precision asthma medicine in primary care: a controversy study The missing publics: Taiwan Biobank, controversy, and democratic governance Precision medicine benefitting populations? Discourse of altruism around precision medicine cohorts Destigmatization in/of psychiatry: is biomarker research the 'right tool for the job'? Dilemmatic situations between benzodiazepine prescription recommendations and practices in Uruguay Patients becoming with predictive technologies: examining relationality in practice in a personalized cancer clinical trial Something old, something new, something borrowed: genome editing as a disruptive technology The social construction of genome-editing technologies in the conference agora Patient power? The influence of Rare Disease Patient Organisation on the development of gene therapy and genome editing Social responsibility and gene-editing in wheat research Decriminalizing human germline modification? Beware the intersections: developing a feminist lens for discussions of genome editing Economies of hope and the commodification of life itself: transgenic mosquitoes as technoscientific matters of care Meetings and marketplace platforms: platform capitalism and the mediation of food encounters Doing 'good coffee'? Explorations on the sociomateriality of taste in the specialty coffee market What is the 'right price' for food? The French "Etats Généraux de l'Alimentation" and the attempt to tame markets Three kinds of milk. Interferences in food quality assurance regimes Bringing social science into food safety agencies: the European Food Safety Authority perspective T-labs as transformative spaces: the case of alternative food networks in the Western Cape, South Africa 'Exchanging knowledge' around food: moving towards more inclusive research and policy agendas? Waste becoming food: value questions, uneasy solutions, and policy possibilities in the surplus food system Antimicrobial resistance and food policy: beating, meeting or greeting microbial life? Understanding processing: Mega Food Parks and technological interactions in the Indian food system The introduction of sustainability into Finnish nutrition recommendations: a new dietary ontonorm in the making? Best før, ofte god etter (best before, often good after) - the construction, practice and consequences of the expiration date of food in Norway Digital eating: exploring the contours of platformed food 'I can be part of that cool new thing if I eat more soft boiled wholegrains'. Developing new food/nutrition policies (and cultures) in Denmark and ScotlandOnly papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Only papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.
Clashing futures as drivers of socio-technological change Disruptive innovation & the idea of technology Responsibility to drill or not to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean? The translation of techno-scientific uncertainty into political power, then and now Meeting to plan the future of cycling: from technical to epistemic and recurrent objects Citizen led visions of the future smart city from grassroots urban agriculture Exploring diverging visions of the future city using the tree as method The paradoxically uncritical Smart City Politicizing energy futures in conflicting visions Reconfiguring regional energy spaces: competing dispositives and imaginaries Foreclosing "conflict": an ethnography of futures at the European Spallation Source Functions of media utopianism in innovation processes Imagined computer futures. Fear, technology and politics in Italian sociotechnical imaginaries (1977-1994) Controversy in the Aesthetics of Religion: when religious studies go cognitive, visions on how to study religions clash New roles, actors and strategies seeking to influence Finnish energy policy Social conflicts in energy projects: exploring differences in moral appraisals through the lens of epistemic cultures How to organize stakeholders involvement in regulating technological issues? An argument for controversies-thinking Co-producing knowledge and publics amidst controversy: analysis of an EU expert network on unconventional hydrocarbons development Impacts of the fossil fuel divestment movement Challenging water-energy governance: the mega-hydropower project in Río Marañón and its contestation Citizen stakeholder's visions of monitoring strategies in nuclear waste disposal sites: an inquiry into the political life of a 'counter-imaginary' Energy regulators as mediators or managers? A case study in South Africa How procedural fairness influences the formation of willingness to cooperate in Switzerland's energy transition Critical challenges to theorising public engagement with the design and deployment of hybrid forums: empirical evidence from Waste-to-Energy contestation in Wales On site public participation in the development of renewable energy installations How can we do bovine Tuberculosis science? Boundary objects, method standardisation and divergent viewpoints in a 'Badger Found Dead Survey' Hype, risk, modesty, and Frequently Asked Questions: opening up (new spaces in) science and closing down controversy? Inclusion into the communication system of science - self-archiving and the use of pre-prints in astronomy and mathematics Opening science to civic society: the case of stakeholder committees in research organisations in France Rethinking openness in science: systemic implications of reintermediation replacing mechanisms of transparency The role of research infrastructure formation strategies in opening and closing science Valuing open science: the significance of openness between digital platformization and societal legitimation Narcosubmarines: outlaw innovation and maritime interdiction in the war on drugs Self-regulation vs. precautionary principle: governing uncertainty in and around DIY biology in Europe and North America The legal grey zone as an incubator of innovation: from drugs to pharma The social construction of risk and value in information security: recuperation versus détournement Co-inventing a participatory “return of experience” digital platform for post-crisis management in Belgium "Bio-bordering" in the EU and the surveillance of "non-publics" Hacking the shelter: infrastructural “counter publics” and the management of forced migration Processing alterity, shaping the order of Europe Harmonising the country of origin information infrastructure Media narratives about transnational criminal surveillance systems: constructing the "European others" 'Folded Infrastructure' two years on: what is at stake when unregulated spaces generate "best practices"? "Something like hospitality": the "illegal" migrant in discourses and materialities regarding pre-removal centers and registration/identification infrastructures after the EU-Turkey deal Marginal stories of an EU database: Liminal data objects in the EU-Turkey Statement CTRL+ALT+DEL: software sorted exclusion of asylum seekers in European population statistics and emergent subjectivities Learning to program realities and identities: diffractions of rendering technical in undergraduate computer science education Telling stories about (re)search: research practices reconfigured by digital search technologies Facial recognition technology as software of categorization A real world laboratory and the vital role of visuals in tracing the trail of a lethal virus Resisting visualizations. A cross-species and cross-field comparative exploration - part 1 Normal x-ray images and liminal seeing: The process of transition between the normal and the abnormal frontier Threatening, dominated, vulnerable: visualizations of nature in the climate change communication of GEO and National Geographic. The black boxes of visual interfaces - study of the power structures in the field of gameplay Meeting gender in space: visual imagery in children's science books Premediating a deep future: visualizations of deep geological repositories for radioactive waste Wag the dog - how robotics configures care situations Matters of concern in welfare technology Matters of time - the different times of technological innovation and care practice 'Infomateriality': Whitehead and digital experience amongst the over 65s Designing persistent maladjustments: age simulation suits and the problematization of elder's agency Translating cell biology of ageing? On the importance of choreographing knowledge Resourceful ageing: creative assemblages as quiet dissent against the paternalistic stance Dying in place: almost at home Fossil networks and dirty power in the land of Oz The enactment of legitimate stakeholders and issues at the Green Climate Fund board meetings Intersectionality, power dynamics and visibility of women in science Peer review and networks in STEM disciplines - a question of gendered Inclusion, exclusion and power? Giving voice to unheard older adults. Participation technologies for knowledge-making-practices Building interdisciplinary capacity for responsible research and innovation: the Interdisciplinary Translation initiative Isolated yet profoundly networked: a mobile and multi-sited ethnography of control rooms Conducting fieldwork at the crossroads: a case study of hybrid meetings in the workplace The state as facilitator and knowledge broker in the agora Digital citizenship in the scoring society Anticipating the big law: flows of personal data Forming a common good? Ideas and challenges of communal data sharing Closing the circle: Dave Eggers trumps Orwell in China The influence of data practices on the relationship between civil society organisations and their audiences Can a state resist its citizens? On the ontological multiplicity of Open Government Race in the New Life Sciences: how to analyze social and scientific effects of biological differentiations in Germany? The (in)visibilities of race through Forensic DNA Phenotyping technologies Facing the unknown suspect. An inquiry into 'the face' generated through Forensic DNA Phenotyping Race as a multiple object in contemporary biomedicine The interpretation of blood: how blood group anthropology imagined assimilation and rationalized discrimination in the colonial Korea Permanent temporality: doing race and the citizen in practices of issuing temporary ID cards in Romania Working with stereotypes in facial composite drawing The edges of vitality: race, infrastructure, and the moral boundaries of the state Doing "deliberative mini-publics": tracing translocal networks of experimentation with democratic innovations - does politics become technologized? Converging in dialogue? Nanotechnology as multi- and transnational field of democratic experimentation Politicising or depoliticising public participation: civil society lobbying and e-petitions in pro-vaccination public support Social media governance, controversies and democratic possibilities Cities as test fields. Urban innovation projects as democratic experiments Experimenting the parliament as a platform. Design cultures at the french National Assembly An "open" and/or "centralized" public service ? Digital-common "Openfisca" case study Threats to democracy: balancing democratic ideals and security concerns Why practices and atmospheres of participation matter: insights from a democratic experiment in distributed deliberative mapping 'Re-wilding' participatory modelling for democratic environmental management Climate strategies as experiments in democracy: evidence from a mixed-method study of national politicians Evaluating the participation in epistemo-political practices "You can taste it in the wine": making minerality matter in post-socialist Hungary Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. - Key examples of post-soviet military equipment solutions in development of armed forces in central Europe after the Cold War Local ecological knowledges and the North-South knowledge divide: consequences for citizen science and participatory approaches Meetings and relationalities instead of individuals and separated units. Reformulation of biological concepts for life sciences in XXI century Suitcase science and after. Structures of semi-peripheral knowledge production The disappearance of the Second World, "suitcase science" - polish higher education reform and exclusion of technoscientific perspective The Internet as Infrastructure development in Lithuania Transformation processes after 1989 reflected in changes to Czech industrial chemical research institutes Making machine learn - ethnographic insights on learning algorithms in the field of robotics Responsible innovation as social learning Meeting uncertainty in next generation clinical genetics Health professionals responses to demands for medical solutions to emotional distress in Uruguay Negotiating medicalisation: the clinical practice of ADHD in paediatric psychiatry Ecology of care. A more-than-institutional analysis of healthcare in the urban space of Trieste, Italy, and London, UK How to be nudged, and be just at the same time? Exploring an innovation in the organisation of health care as a practice of justification and critique The bargaining of professionalism in emergency care practice: NHS paramedics and higher education Visible persons, invisible work? Exploring articulation work in person-centered care Efficiency, standardization and the complexity of integrating care for old people in a primary care setting in Northen Italy The contribution of internet use in personal networks of support for long-term condition self-management Being lucky and making choices: making sense of mobility Finding a place in science: the role of institutional configurations in the formation of scientific identity At least a little bit of stability. How life scientists do identity work in today´s academia "Within the frames that were laid out": 'independent' doctoral research in the projectified humanities Evidence for excellence? How ERC reviewers attribute (non-)excellence to researchers Filling in the gaps. The politics of interpreting academic CVs in evaluative situations Impacted or impactful? The research impact agenda as a challenge to academic identities Meeting the diversified demands for knowledge: reconciling modernist and reflexive values for knowledge production Meeting between the scientist and the public: RRI as a challenging transformation of scientists' identity The open science "revolution": changing policy, practice - and people? The politics of what humanists do: digital humanities as an epistemic regime Identity formation and transformation in transdisciplinary scholarship: the case of Technology Assessment Transdisciplinary subjectivation. Negotiating scientific identities, skills, and normativities in the arena of sustainable energy transformations Beyond cosmopolitans and locals: international research collaboration and academic identity formation Caring for science/worlds in the making - philosophy's involvement in primary education Caring for quality of life? Normativities in the making on a dialysis ward The case of Bob: caring for telecare by nurses and researchers Thinking through alternatives: a case of research on unconventional medicine Ontological politics of cure: towards a world without leprosy? The dream of precision: normative shifts in recent medicine The good, the bad and the difficult: sharpening STS tools to navigate conflicting normativities in the medical practice of deceased organ donation Good diagnostics: productive uncertainty and caring for health in the case of Hepatitis C testing Achieving good interdisciplinary research Normativities of integrity - a matter of care "Conscience implies a sense of duty". Good science and caring for wild animals in applied ecology Evaluating care work and searching for scientific grounding in the disaster zone: disaster mental health activities in northern Japan Non-invasive predictions: visual predictive tools in IVF Risky pregnancy? Women's choice and risk accountability of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis in Taiwan "You are not ready to be a mum if you are not listening to a medical professional say it is not safe": how 'reproductive responsibility' affects family-building choices in women with Turner Syndrome Genetics, heritability and family histories: materialising the healthy egg donor in clinical screening practices "It's very simple, they … just get it done there" - reproductive technologies, gene editing, and moral geographies as sense making devices Powering life: exploring the bio-objectification of mitochondria in reproduction When "do it yourself" with cryopreserved semen becomes unsafe Reproductive medicine and biopolitical strategies in Germany A beacon for science? The soft power of regional research museums in a post-fact era Politics by other means? Czech chemical industrial R&D institutes before and after 1989 The global supercomputer race: geopolitics and the discourse of competitiveness Inciting infrastructural inversion: modes of engagement in the ethnography of data-intensive science From hospital to code and back again. Data transformations in interdisciplinary cooperation "Life of Things Project": being useful as a way of knowing Making landscape in ethnography: the multiple role and vision on Svalbard Archipelago Environmental Impact Assessment through ethnography: disentangling or negotiating slippery subjects? Professional practices and the materiality of knowing and making biodiversity in the Black Forest Co-laboration as an analytical tool for the ethnographic study of
infrastructures in organisations Composite method: experimenting with the absent presence of race in film and facial composite drawing Collaboration in and beyond the ethnographic field: overcoming epistemic asymmetries through collaborative practices in and beyond residential care settings Material practices of establishing ethnographic presence Being reflexively ethnographic in the face of an opaque Internet of Things Medicine meets the intersex body: the creation of sex and the creation of a disorder Conceptions of the transgender brain: from binary, sex reversed and pathological to something beyond? When technology meets nature in the production of gendered bodies: the case of breast re/construction Intersex and the ethics of exclusion: choosing, postponing and cutting Mapping design methods for public policy innovation in European Policy Labs Encounters and disencounters: design, innovation and the 'public' in public sector innovation labs in Ibero-America "A safe place to do dangerous things": Policy Labs as the future of policymaking in Europe Design thinking-apparatuses. The quality and scope of lab-solutions Testing future societies - how test beds re-interpret and co-produce technology and society Making urban laboratories: living with bioengineered mosquitos in Medellín Turning Wallonia into a lab: when economic strategies meet creativity and experimentation dynamics Producing findings in an industrial usability testing lab Urban labs as resilience practices Potential public use of 'Opportunity Radars' The designer in the middle: urban futures for public consumption Overshooting futures: investigating digital representations of scenarios with climate change Disconcerting (big) data futures through data sprints Techniques of futuring: imagining sustainable cities of tomorrow Futures limited: innovations pathways in public foresight Comparing visions via scenario development Women’s imagination of future, less polluted, urban environments Changing futures for gas in the Netherlands – exploring the role of the public in energy system change Imaginaries of acceptance "Data protection is a fundamental right in Europe". Examining sociotechnical imaginaries of search engines and a European identity Policy framing of risks and opportunities of an emerging technology: the case of Artificial Intelligence Visions of unification and integration: an ethnography of the European Human Brain Project Innovate to adapt European agricultures to climate change ? The "Climate Smart Agriculture Booster", a regulatory policy aiming at incentivizing technological innovation Relative gains or human security? A closer look at the EU's Ethics Issues Checklist for upstream control of dual-use research in Europe Make way for the robots! Roles for autonomy in building a European public-private partnership The diversity of regional innovation cultures in the European Union: "conservative innovation" in Bavaria Contribution Systems: how to re-think the politics of innovation as agencies without actors? Innovation and neocolonialism in the European Space Agency's Moon Village concept (or how Europe will guide humanity into deep space) A solution looking for a problem? Interrogating the 'innovation imperative' and the 'deficit model' of innovation Scrutinizing "genetic truth" and protection of personal data A fixation with quantification and the age of 18? Inscriptions in a new technology for age assessment for asylum cases in Sweden Technologies of sensing and sense making. Frontex Screening and its socio-technical assemblage of truth assessment at Moria Hotspot, Greece The polygraph and police interrogations Modes of seeing and socio-technical visions in the research field of truth verification Assets, commodities, and their boundaries Producing commodities and gifts in the trade of used clothing: production-oriented and item-oriented models in English charity shops Temporary decommodification? Sorting things out in the capitalist value chain of soy in Argentina Distinct, uniform, stable: breeding the perfect good De-cod-ing valuation experiments: the co-modification of seafood and consumers in experimental settings From commercial commodity to matchless game fish: recommodifying Atlantic salmon in Eastern Canada Between places and markets. How prices for carbon emissions emerge The political economy of transnational ova flows: Ukrainian ova market and its global connections Big data and the anticipated reshaping of the patient-physician relationship Domesticating digital insurance A new form of social ordering? Investigating the impact of datafication practices on regulation (Big) data brokers, identity graphs and social sorting Postulated consumers - big data in a marketable world Commensurating financial intelligence: a qualitative study of European Financial Intelligence Units (fius) Higher education and the labour market infrastructure in the digital economy Situated valorizations: accounting for domain-industry collaborations on the cloud Recognition by numbers: who shapes algorithmic science evaluation? Large scale data assessments through digital platforms in science- the coproduction of significance Tracing data transformations Revisiting Callon's Singular Statements: is public management knowledge performative? Keep diversity - make standards! Interbull as a space of international commensurability for cattle breeding standards Making up the numbers: quality improvement as a policy device for hard times Smarter together? Policy assemblages and economisation in the European Union Partial vistas: records, self-monitoring and everyday data practices How to think like an accelerometer Seeing the self through data Imagining human-centric data futures: an analysis of the visual conventions of personal finance, health and integrated data management tools Doing experiments on customer data: customer data as epistemic object The market that fails to see New transparency, new opacity Have you seen this dog? Rendering more-than-human publics legible in urban settings Building cultures of integrity: the interaction between promotion structures and research integrity How institutions think: governing research integrity in university environments Research integrity as translation work: assumptions and practices of authorship in nutrition science Situating integrity: locating policy concepts in practice The bureaucratization of research integrity Too much, too soon? Emerging domains of science and the logic of reproducibility Check here if you are mad, bad or sad: dLTC surveys and their consequences Reality capturing states of mind Digital epidemiology and the disruption of public health Whose feedback is it anyway? Enacting agency in online health experience reports EU blood supply risk governance and MSM deferral in Europe: longitudinal case study of sociotechnical imaginaries mobilized in the public debate on the deferral of Men who have Sex with Men in Belgium The anthropology of health disobedience Genome testing and the social ontology of childhood adoption The value(s) of archiving transgenic mice: exploring the bioeconomies of animal research through a case study of mouse biobanks Rethinking the public versus private debate on UCB biobanking: the participation of donors in the processes of shaping UCB biobanking configurations in Greece Collaboration beyond disciplinary boundaries - meetings in outreach activities Anticipation as a normative practice. Life science researchers' anticipatory practices between care and managerialism Dirty dancing on democratic stages: knowledge that matters in nuclear waste experiments Future as infeasible, desirable and unimaginable: an analysis of lay public imaginaries of the 2°C goal and low-carbon energy transitions Disposable bodies: robots and care in Real Humans Freezing life, escaping death? Cryonics as a meeting point of transhumanist visions How do climate scientists use social media? Collusion and collision of personal, professional and epistemic contexts The role of system builders in UK urban tramway development, 1870-1896 The cash register as a mundane market device Innovation systems and the innovation market: what relations? Knowing the whole: personal identification number as statistical infrastructure The state of the future? E-stonia and the techno-utopian commodification of identity in the digital age Economies of appearances: information technology and the management of (in)visibility in the Brazilian Amazon In data we trust? Negotiating data assemblages in the implementation of Brazil's climate targets When tinkering goes wrong: innovating to care or caring to innovate? A relational analysis of contemporary planning practice Organising unknowing? Trade, war, law, and the creation of knowledge in early colonial Bombay Beyond moral judgement: enhancing technology awareness of students in the social sciences and humanities Teaching genetics with STS: an innovative program to make students fit for post-truth debates The Science in Society Laboratories: training students to analyse contemporary techno-scientific controversies and develop normative recommendationsOnly papers that have been accepted by panel convenors will be shown here.