Feb 19 2024
In this post, Raquel Rachid and Marcelo Fornazin discuss the process of digitizing public health systems based on a comparison between Brazil and the United Kingdom, focusing on the process of platformization of the State.
May 8 2023
The editors of Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds offer a window into the process of creating an edited volume that draws together historians and designers.
Apr 22 2019
In this reflection on non-traditional pedagogical frameworks, Dr. Ali Kenner shares her structure, various outcomes, and generative possibilities from leading an STS Theory Studio that uses hands-on studio-based practices and multimedia formats for student projects.
Aug 2 2021
Project Conservator Aimée Crickmore and Project Archivist Rachael Gardner discuss their work on a recent project at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to catalogue and conserve a significant archive about colonial networks of economic botany, 1850-1928.
Aug 25 2016
This track aims to discuss two main questions: what role does Science and Technology play in processes of social and environmental change? What is the role of Science and Technology studies and STS scholars in promoting, advocating, and building pathways towards inclusive and sustainable development?
Aug 25 2016
How do we do and present research about spaces within spaces? In particular how do we move away from the desk (and the projector) to convey more of the subtle interactions which take place between bodies, technologies and their physical situations? This track offers a day of presentations outside the conference venue, walking around the Poblenou area.
Jul 17 2024
This blog post by Mariko Yoshida illustrates the processes by which the Pacific Oyster is transformed into a capitalist commodity to meet the demands of market consumption and resistance against underwater precarity.
Aug 22 2016
Action, Interaction and Change (or what our 4S title session really means).
Mar 13 2015
The heap we see is viable, and indeed potent, as a source for scholarship because of its embodied status, its being in the world and in time. Looking, touching, searching, smelling, filming reveal a story with historical and contemporary implications, and–for me– lays out the framework for a material archaeology of waste. The site of the heap is the starting point for a book and a series of interconnected short films and interactive media in progress, an excerpt of which is shown.
Aug 5 2016
‘Islands on the Cutting Edge: Test sites for reimagining future technoscience’ (session T155) starts at 11.00, on Saturday 3 September, at Location 114.