Changing Worlds: Ideologies, Utopias and Ambitions in Science and Technology Event

Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna: Universitätsstraße 7 Staircase II/6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna AND Aula at the Campus Spitalgasse 2 Court 1.11 1090 Vienna

Friday, 21 November
9.30 – 11.00 Panel 3: Green Worlds – Nature, Culture, Policy

Victoria Neumann: Old, new world plus climate change? How the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change redraws boundaries between the global and the local
Aviram Sharma: Changing Irrigation Practices and Emerging Sustainability Challenges in Southern Bihar: A Dialogue between Policy and Practice
Benedikt Endler, Matilde Igual Capdevila & Adrijan Karavdic: The Green Storm

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 4: Changing Worlds – Activism and Empowerment

Tom Bieling, Tiago Martins & Gesche Joost: Empowering Interaction: Design Research for the Real World
Vlasta Stulikovà: Still not loving food waste: Anti-food-waste activism and its material practices in the Czech context
Marcin Zaród: Hackers and hacker spaces: From non-formal laboratories to the local ecologies of knowledge

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00 Panel 5: Optimising Worlds – Humans, Machines and Cities

Agata Stasik: Technology for the people, by the people: makers movements brave experiments with social ‘reality’
Tereza Virtovà: Production of a fluid production: ethnography in a global factory in the Czech Republic
Olesya Benedikt: Smart City Songdo – optimised environment, ‘optimised’ life style?

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 17.15 Keynote: Alan Irwin

Excellence and responsibility in social scientific research: both, neither, either/or?