Maximilian Reiner, Technische Universität München; Maximilian Braun, Technische Universität München; Matthias Gabriel, Technische Universität München; Clara Valdés-Stauber, Technische Universität München; Xinghan Liu, Technische Universität München; Sarah Eidam, Technische Universität München
virPrague 20: Big Data, Information Sciences, Technosphere
As a group of STS students we have created a video game based on the emerging theme of sex robots. Our motivation is that games offer virtual and interactive spaces where moral awareness can be raised through the storytelling and the players’ decision making. This makes a game an appropriate place to embed ethical and sociological perspectives. Adopting robotics for sexual interaction as a case study builds on an emerging social controversy that skirts the notion of sexuality: e.g. the human and non-human boundary, dehumanization and legalization. Employing the method of research-creation, this project proposes responsible storytelling through video games as an STS practice.
Digital Object: website, www.mcts.tum.de/studium/student-voices/#create
Making and Doing
Toronto 2021
Inventive AI
Justice
Multispecies
Performance
Storytelling as Relations
Virtual Prague 2020
Disasters, Breakdowns, Precarity,
Slow Violence
Experiments in Collaboration and
Critical Participation
Medicine, Health, Disability Studies
Climate Change, Anthropocene,
Geosciences
Multispecies Assemblages, Life
Sciences, Queer Ecologies
Politics, Governmentality, Participation
and Protest
Big Data, Information Sciences,
Technosphere
Worlds Otherwise
Religion, Spirits, Animism Speculative
Apparatuses, Sensing Practices
New Orleans 2019
Imagining
Living with
Playing / Crafting
Experiencing / Listening
Mapping / Monitoring
Conversing
Sydney 2018
Situated Knowledges
Infrastructure and co-design
Knowing and governing
Issues, people and publics
Performance and effect
Methods and practices
Boston 2017
Open
STS Infrastructures
Pedagogy
Visual and Sensory Approaches
Design and Planning
Policy
Denver 2015
STS Infrastructures
Visual and Sensory Approaches
Pedagogy
Open
Design and Planning
Policy
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