Submitter: Sophia Efstathiou, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), sophia.efstathiou@ntnu.no
Abstract:
What is the method of STS? Can applied theater and art inspire how we do STS? This session investigates these questions by engaging session participants in performance-based activities designed as STS think-modes. The situations, dubbed the Science Humanities and Arts Knowledge Exercises (SHAKE) mix the format of games, using elements like rules and time-constraints, with the open-endedness of performance, proposing that play and performance are important modes of philosophical research, teaching and productivity. The SHAKE gameformances offered here explore problems: 1. mind/body dualism, 2. nominalism and realism about kinds, 3. the idea of value-based design and of technological scripts, 4. Privacy, 5. Responsibility as a response-ability. 1. Ideobics: is an exercise routine that mixes concepts and movements in a set of ten mind-body exercises. (20 min) 2. Facing identity: invites audience members to pick a token of a particular kind and to develop an intimate relationship with it. (20 min) 3. Virtuous (and Vicious!) Designs: participans re-design things following new, invented verbs e.g., “fairorise” a virus: make a virus facilitate fairness (30 min) 4. Sharing Secrets: invites participants to share personal private information in different modes (30 min) 5. Response-able Walk: investigates responsibility as an ability to respond to others and to structure. (20 min)
Areas of STS Scholarship: Science communication, Feminist STS, Method and Practice
Authors/Participants: Sophia Efstathiou, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
