Submitter: Alberto E Morales, Princeton University, alberto.morales@princeton.edu
Abstract:
Our exhibit table showcases student-produced artifacts exploring the politics of health, environment, and multispecies relations in scientific/biomedical interventions. Through semester-long, guided design projects, students' projects examine diseases, pandemics, and other global health concerns through the lens of multispecies entanglements and Science and Technology Studies. Students analyze the ongoing effects of ecological and environmental changes and the practices of world-making that drive new imaginings and becomings of life and the life sciences. Student projects and artifacts fall under one or more of the following four interdisciplinary threads: 1) global health policy; 2) multispecies relations and justice; 3) epistemology and the study of scientific knowledge production; 4) world-building and emerging planetary imaginings through science and technology. Student design projects and artifacts may include teaching kits for K-12 education or infographics for wide at-large dissemination; digital and visual art pieces on a social media page or in a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) gallery; a digital Zine or magazine; or lesson plan to communicate findings from their projects. This “Making and Doing” exhibit table will encourage its audience members to co-think, collaborate on, and share practices of participation, pedagogy, engagement, playful inquiry, and intervention in the dissemination of scientific knowledge to broader publics.
Areas of STS Scholarship: Forms and practices of expertise, Medicine and Healthcare, Environmental/Multispecies Studies
Authors/Participants: Alberto E Morales, Princeton University
