The Smartification of Everything: Critical Perspectives in Sciences, Arts and Society is a new volume from the University of Toronto Press, edited by Mascha Gugganig, Kelly Bronson and Vincent Mirza. The book was published following a conference co-hosted by ETHOS Lab. In March 2022, a Symposium and Exhibition took place partly online and partly in Ottawa, Canada. […]
Hi Shi, welcome to TiP! We’re really happy you’re joining us for a visit this autumn. Tell us us about your stay. Hello! I will be participating in the Moving Data, Moving People project as a research intern, working with Rachel Douglas-Jones. I am completing this internship as part of my Master […]
As a TiP-led university magazine, RESET is now in its third year with the theme “Living well with technology in the climate emergency” This edition’s editors are Michael Hockenhull, James Maguire and Felipe Figueiredo, with images from Clarissa Reche. The launch took place at ITU in the atrium in October, with the editors and contributors […]
On November 11th, 2024, editors James Maguire, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Douglas-Jones will host a launch of special issue Approaching Digital Anthropocenes. The collection originated at the 2020 EASST + 4S conference, known as “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in emerging worlds”. It was meant to take place in […]
This September we celebrated 10 years of the Shut up and Write group at the IT University of Copenhagen. As this post documents, it started in 2014 and has continued every semester since. It has had many convenors over the years, and special thanks go to those who have prepared the snacks, coffee and tea. […]
During her October visit, Dr. Catherine Trundle will be participating in a PhD course and also holding a 2h workshop on Ekphrastic Writing. On Friday 4th, 10-12 we will meet at the ETHOS Lab to consider Ekphrastic writing as an ethnographic mode of attention. The workshop asks us to consider the place of poetics within […]
Welcome to our informal interview series with visitors to the research group. It is called Tea in TiP because interviewees are invited to share a cup of tea (digitally, virtually, in person, and sometimes coffee) and talk about what they hope to work on while visiting ITU and TiP. Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes is […]
The 4S and EASST conference is jointly held this July in Amsterdam. Many TiPsters will be going along, as convenors and paper presenters. To learn more about research happening in TiP, take a particular look at these panels: Panel P144 Tuesday 16th July “Border infrastructures, geopolitical shocks and regulation cracks” Convenors Vasilis Galis, Elena […]
In 2022, TiPster Irina Papazu, along with Andreas Birkbak (Roskilde University), edited a book called Democratic Situations, which was published by Mattering Press. We are so excited that the book has been awarded the 2024 Freeman Award from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The Freeman award is named after […]
Rachel: Hi Sébastien, welcome to Tea in TiP. Tell us about your project? Sébastien: I am in the final year of my PhD at the department of Management, Society and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School. My PhD project aims to investigate, from an organizational perspective, the mutual and processual shaping of the implementation of […]
In 2018, editors Christopher Gad, Brit Ross Winthereik and Sisse Finken brought you the TiP Magazine which presented research in the group through the unfamiliar genre of the glossy magazine, twisting and tweaking well known elements like the travel report, recipe and so much more. The TiP magazine was a one off. In 2024, we […]
Tea in TiP is a series that started a decade ago, where we interview guests who have come to spend time with us, about their projects and activities.The following took place by email in the Spring of 2024, between Rachel Douglas-Jones and Kristine Lund Christiansen, a guest hosted by James Maguire. Hi Kirstine, […]
Join us to hear about Rasmus Tyge Haarløv’s PhD research “Making Sense of Air Pollution Modelling: Framed Uncertainties” Auditorium 3 The examination committee is: Christopher Gad, Associate Professor, IT-University of Copenhagen (Chair) Liliana Doganova, Associate Professor, PSL Université Paris, France Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Senior Researcher, DTU, Denmark Supervisors: Principal Supervisor: Steffen Dalsgaard, Professor, IT University […]
Lisa Messeri, author of Placing Outer Space, has published a new book, titled In the Land of the Unreal. It came out in March, with Duke University Press. On Wednesday 10th April 14:00 CET, you are invited to join us for an online (also in person) book talk from Lisa. In the book, Lisa takes […]
A group of students and faculty at ITU has taken the initiative to publish writings on the climate in relation to the university, students and technology. The second issue, edited by James Maguire and Michael Hockenhull, reimagines and reckons with the role of students in the climate emergency. Click this link to access the magazine.
Congratulations to Simy Kaur Gahoonia on publishing her article of the title ‘Makers, Not Users: Inscriptions of Design in the Development of Postdigital Technology Education’. Read it and learn about design practices in the forming of ‘technology comprehension’ in the public school. Click here to access the publication.
Christopher Gad just published an article with the title “Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark” as part of a special Issue on Digital (mis)trust that James Maguire co-edited at the Journal of Cultural Economy. Click here to access the special issue.
Irina Papazu co-edited the latest issue of STS Encounters, which also contains articles by Steffen Dalsgaard and Rasmus Tyge Haarløv (Mobilising Uncertainties in Air Pollution Science in Copenhagen), Irina and former TiP member Adam Veng (Is Denmark a green entrepreneurial state? Mapping Danish climate politics between civic mobilization and business cooptation), and Christopher Gad (Curating […]
Vasilis Galis and his co-authors are behind the 3rd issue of 2023 of Science as Culture, titled ‘Border Control Technologies’. The special issue asks how border technologies turn borders into a contested space and how they come to matter for specific affected communities, especially migrants. Click here to access the issue.
Barbara Nino Carreras and Vasilis Galis have each their feature in a recent collection of policy brief articles from projects funded by NordForsk or Nordic Energy Research. Barbaras article is titled “Putting People at the Centre of Digital Welfare Services: Towards a socially sustainable Nordic Region”. Vasilis’ is titled: “Digitalising law enforcement: A critical guide […]
The CUPP Project (Critical Understanding on Predictive Policing) is organising a new conference in January 2024: The Discreet Charm of Prediction: Critical Understandings of the Digitalization of Policing Over the past 20 years, police organizations and practices across the globe have adopted data-driven tools to predict and prevent crime. This conference will focus on the […]
A new project, designed by the postdoc in it, Alena Thiel, was recently funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (at the European Commission) . It is called `Modelling African Futures: A technographic study of evidence-based welfare policy in Ghana´(MUNDI), and focuses on how the window of opportunity for harnessing the developmental potential of the demographic transition […]
Jessamy Perriam recently contributed with a chapter to a new book called FailuriSTS, edited by Sybille Lammes, Kat Jungnickel, Larissa Hjorth & Jen Rae in Theory on Demand (#47). It was published about a month ago by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam and in the volume, failure is considered a productive part of […]
Barbara Nino Carreras recently contributed to a chapter called “Towards Digital Accessibility: Disabled Culture and Social Justice” in the first interdisciplinary anthology on universal design in Danish. The book is written by an interdisciplinary research network, established by the Bevica Foundation to strengthen the field of universal design as a research-based and interdisciplinary field of […]
Baki Cakici Co-authored a recent opinion piece in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan. “Based on scientific research, we are surprised that the Swedish government and the Sweden Democrats intend to push through a population census for Sweden based on new methods”, write Baki Cakici, associate professor at the IT University in Copenhagen, and Hanna Sjögren, associate […]
A collective piece of work, in the form of a collection of short writings on thinking, making, and intervening in technology worlds, recently came out. Under the title “Reclaiming Technology: a poetic-scientific vocabulary”, the initiators Brit Ross Winthereik and James Maguire asked members of the TiP group, as well as affiliated externals, to contribute with […]
Big congratulations to PI Irina Papazu and Co-PI Jessamy Perriam, who landed a significant funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark for their new project Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Frontier (DIGI-FRONT). This project will investigate the potential implications of the pursuit of the digital state in an international context. The digitalization of the welfare state […]
Supposedly, digitalisation offers new capacities and directions for environmental politics and governance. This chapter critically introduces the discursive trajectories of three ‘developments’, sustainable development, digitalisation and capitalist acceleration. Analytically, I approach these trajectories with the sociology of promises, environmental sociology and science and technology studies. To illustrate how subjects and environments are differently (con)figured at […]
Big congratulations to Hasib Ahsan who achieved his PhD on the 15th of February 2023 Thesis Title: The Role of Human Infrastructure: Investigating Digital Interventions in the Global South Based on fieldwork in five distinct projects, this thesis investigates the role of human infrastructure in the context of digital interventions in the Global South. The […]
On 7 December 2022, the Center for Climate IT launched with an event at the IT University. The afternoon featured a presentation of the center’s vision from Head of Center Steffen Dalsgaard and Associate Professor James Maguire, a talk on climate sustainability at ITU from Vice-Chancellor Per Bruun Brockhoff, and research presentations from ITU-based researchers Associate Professor Anna […]
UNDO will employ a combination of research and artistic inquiry to critically investigate and relay the role and transformation of the digitalization of the police in three Nordic countries, and to mobilize for the protection of civil rights in the age of Big Data. We will conduct academic research that will examine how data driven […]
On December 19th, Andy Lautrup will defend their dissertation “Generation Carbon: Loss, goodness and youth climate activism in Norway’s oil capital”. The defense will take place in Auditorium 0 at 1pm and be followed by a reception on the first floor of the atrium. All welcome! Examination committee:Associate Professor, James Maguire, IT-University of Copenhagen […]
Head of TiP Rachel Douglas-Jones particiapated in the 2022 AAAs, on the invited Executive sessionconvened by Natalie Vena and Sarah Vaughn, and a rountable, co-convened by Anna Weichselbraun and Nick Seaver, on Filing Culture the Management of Anthropological Materials.
Knowledges and technosciences for living together This coming December, colleagues in TiP will be presenting at the international 4S conference, held this year in Cholula, Mexico. Look out for the following papers – click the panel titles to see abstracts! Thursday 8th December 8:30am-10:30am Climate Infrastructures II: Knowledge Infrastructures Development as Method: Building a […]
This project will analyse unique technology-driven green transitions through ethnographic studies of Amazon-focused initiatives in Brazil. The destructive exploitation of the Amazon rainforest has for long been central to the Brazilian economy. In response to its environmental and climatic consequences, recent initiatives propose an economic model supported by advanced ‘4.0 technologies’ that develop local resources […]
CONFERENCE THEME Politics of Technoscientific Futures This years EASST is taking place in Madrid from June 6-9 and it goes without say that the programme of the year is drizzled with participants from TiP. TiPsters that take part in trying to answer and expand on some of the important questions mentioned in the description of […]
Democratic Situations eds. Andreas Birkbak & Irina Papazu Come and celebrate the publication of the new book from Mattering Press with us! Time & Place 8 June 2022, 14:00 – 15:30 TANTLab, room 2.3.002a, Aalborg University Copenhagen, A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 København SV Program* 14:00 – 14:15 Presentation by the editors 14:15 – […]
Material Acts of Resistance: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining socio-political clothing stories Dr Kat Jungnickel Tues 14th June 10:30 – 12:00, Aud 2 Clothing is a critical socio-technology of everyday life; both mundane and familiar and invested with social and political significance. The political subject is (almost) always dressed (and even when they are not, this […]
Continuing the tradition of sharing short interviews with visiting researchers and PhD students thorugh Tea in TiP, the second of our three current visitors to sit down for Tea in TiP is Katrine Duus. RDJ: Hi Katrine, tell us about your project! KD: My project is concerned with the experiences and motivations for working through […]
We are lucky to have three visiting PhD researchers at ITU at the moment, and the first to sit down for Tea in TiP is Jack Kværnø-Jones. RDJ: Hi Jack! Tell us about your project! JKJ: My research looks at the FinTech sector’s influence on retail banking, exploring how financial professionals connect digital technologies […]