From the UK to Brazil: digital health and the platformization of public health systems

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.

Designing Natural Things: How Images Make Meaning in History of Science

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.

STS Theory Studio

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.

Botany, Trade and Empire: Exploring the Miscellaneous Reports Collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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.

4S Preview: Engaging STS Studies for Inclusive Development

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?

4S Preview: Sensing, Walking and Embodiment With and By Technologies—A Track Away From the Desk

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.

Spawnless Nature in the Making

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.

4S Preview: Re-configuring Knowledge Practices: Folding Margins and Norms into Dynamic Hybridity

Aug 22 2016

Action, Interaction and Change (or what our 4S title session really means).

Textile Waste and Audiovisual STS

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.

4S Preview: Here, there be future dragons…

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.

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