Dear colleagues,
we are happy to invite you to join us for a panel on "Bridging STS &
Design Research – Designing Interactions, designing the Socio-Technical"
at the 6th Nordic STS conference in Oslo from June 7-9 – please find the
panel description below!
You can submit your abstracts (250 words) by March 1st via the
submission form:
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html
We are looking forward to meeting you in Oslo!
kindest regards,
Stefanie Egger
### Bridging STS & Design Research – Designing Interactions, designing
the Socio-Technical ###
This session revolves around a central question: How can socio-technical
configurations be designed? In promoting and shaping social and
technological change toward sustainability, the critical question in
both fields is how interactions, interdependencies, and communications
between people and things are designed.
Architects, designers, and engineers of all kinds are shaping the
technical world that surrounds us, from urban planning to the
development of everyday objects and tools to the design of digital
landscapes. In this context, one of the most important challenges for
designers today is to help create a more sustainable world. However,
looking only at the world of artifacts – the technical world – has
severe limitations for those who want to promote such shifts towards
sustainability. We design the things, but we design them for human use,
we design them for use within existing infrastructures. So we need
research for design – concepts, thinking models and tools that help us
combine the technical and the social world in sophisticated ways and
reopen blackboxed matters of course. In exploring habits & rituals, it
becomes very clear in how many ways a technical object such as for
example a mobile phone is connected to and entangled in the
technological as well as in the social realms. Design Research can help
understand how the technical and the social are intertwined.
This panel aims to strengthen bridges between Design Research
(understood as research for design as well as research through design
(Frayling 1994, 2015)) and Science, Technology and Society Studies and
at the same time challenge technically and “digital-only” focused
approaches to design. Bringing together findings from Design Research
activities and Science, Technology and Society Studies can be vital for
sustainable design and can be fruitful for STS research as well. The
panel especially welcomes papers, posters and presentations (including
analogue and/or artifact-based) addressing at least one of the following
questions:
- How can designers encourage and promote more sustainable behavior?
- Bearing in mind that users and objects configure each other, how can
we take into account these processes of co-configuration regarding
sustainable design?
- How can STS perspectives help designers implement sustainable products
and practices?
- How can an STS approach stimulate design processes in general?
- Are there Design Research approaches that can inspire Science,
Technology & Society Studies?
All types of research tackling sustainability design issues as well as
challenging frameworks of meaning and contexts of practice, discussions
and presentations that connect research in STS and design are welcome in
this panel.
Panel organizers: Christian Lepenik, Stefanie Egger, The Invisible Lab
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Stefanie Egger, PhD
Creative + Research Partner
The Invisible Lab
Graz, Austria
mobile +43 316 909590
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