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 […]

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. 

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

The Reimagining Digital Infrastructures project (James Maguire, Assistant Professor in TiP and Cristina Canureci) has published a report on Edge Computing. Edge infrastructures–– as a newly emerging computing paradigm––are one form of industry response to the need to diversify our digital infrastructures. While not replacing centralized digital processes, edge is one way, the report argues, […]

Just in time for a good listen during the holidays, researchers of the Data as Relation Research project and the Center for Digital Welfare have recently published some new podcast episodes.  Listen to the special series of the Data as Relation podcasts telling the story of digitalization and big data in little Denmark through conversation […]

In a recent article in Ingenøren, Brit Ross Winthereik, Professor in TiP, discusses issues of ‘digital housekeeping’ in the Danish digitalized welfare state. In the article, Winterheik is raising questions of structural reinforcements of inequalities through placing the responsibility of access to digital services on the citizens. As a high degree self-sufficiency and technical knowledge […]

TiP Researchers Assistant Professor Lise Røjskjær Pedersen and Assistant Professor James Maguire are editing together with Kristoffer Albris, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen University, a special issue on ‘Digital mistrust: Rethinking trust in digitalizing societies’. While there is little agreement within academia, and beyond, as to the precise meaning of the term trust, there is broad […]

In the light of the current pandemic situation and the challenges this poses for teaching activities, assistant professor Jessamy Perriam and associate professor Baki Cakici, both TiP members and lecturers of the course ‘Navigating Complexity’, have transformed inperson lectures into live radio shows. This format and novel teaching method provides new opportunities to convey complex […]

This year, TiP members contribute in various ways and topics the virtual EASST/4S conference.   Kick off your conference days with an excursion to the UK through Jessamy Perriams’s presentation on ‘De-Inscribing and Re-Insribing Legacy Technologies in the UK Public Sector’, before following Rachel Douglas Jones and James Maguire’s panel ‘Political Data of the Digital […]

‘Det risikoscorede menneske’ “If we do not discuss ‘digital citizen rights’ now, we are risking a systematic discrimination based on data and processes that we cannot understand and for which no one can be held accountable for.” In last Friday’s Weekendavisen, Professor in TiP and Head of the Center for Digital Welfare Brit Ross Winthereik discusses […]

Museum Implosions is a collection of 17 essays by members of the Technologies in Practice group at the IT University of Copenhagen. The implosion, a method for generating critical enquiry, draws on Dumit’s instruction to continue in the pedagogical spirit of Donna Haraway’s scholarship. Based on a research trip to the Danish Technical Museum, the […]

TiP members Associate Professor Marisa Cohn, Professor Brit Ross Winthereik and Assistant Professor James Maguire contributed to the recently published field guide “Digital STS. A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies” edited by Janet Vertesi and David Ribes. The collection, published in 2019, entails twenty-five essays, which are offering new approaches to digital scholarship, […]

Researchers in TiP, Associate Professor Vasilis Galis and Professor Brit Ross Winthereik, are leading the new research project Welfare after Digitalization.  The aim of Welfare after Digitalization is to investigate how institutional values, digital affordances, and organizational politics are imagined and embedded in digital welfare services, as well as experienced and practiced by citizens, public […]

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 (though we shared some coffee on this  occasion) and talk about what they hope to work on while visiting ITU and TiP. Nikolaus Pöchhacker is visiting from […]

With a moderate climate, a stable electricity grid and a central location in Europe, Denmark’s growing data center industry offers ideal conditions that big tech companies have long been looking for. As tech giants, like Google, Facebook and Apple, place their servers in Denmark in order to store data from European users, questions regarding climate […]

On December 11th, TiP’s research group Data as Relation and SODAS – Center for Social Data Science at Copenhagen University held a workshop on ‘Digital trust in Denmark’. This workshop aimed to debate the hypothesis that Denmark’s increasing digitalization is facilitated by the citizen’s trust in society and the welfare state. To discuss this question, […]

On 4th December 2019, James Maguire and InfinIT held the first workshop of the workshop series Reimagining Digital Infrastructures here at ITU. The series of workshops, funded by InfinIT (Innovationsnetværk for IT), aims to consider new ways of creating more ethically inflected digital futures. The first workshop was an exploration of ways in which digital […]

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 (on this occasion we had Swedish Söder tea) and talk about what they hope to work on while visiting ITU and TiP. Rikke Torenholt is visiting from […]

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 (on this occasion we have shared coffee) and talk about what they hope to work on while visiting ITU and TiP. Torbjörn Rolandsson is visiting from the […]

Marisa Cohn is presenting at the Maintainers III conference in Washington D.C., which is the third conference in a series that celebrates and unpacks the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world. You can find the full program here, and Melissa will giving her […]

Brit Ross Winthereik joined Anders Kjærulff in his Podcast ‘Aflyttet’ to talk about the future of digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google home and the question of ethics in a digital welfare state. Check out the podcasts here [in Danish] Russerne og de digitale, lidt for personlige assistenter! Data-etik, digital velfærd og den analoge […]

From 09.-23. September, our research group Data as Relation collaborates with the artist duo Kirsten Astrup and Maria Bodorff. Astrup’s and Bodorff’s work centers on infrastructures of the welfare society. The artists aim to develop a video installation on digital infrastructures based on material from the research project. The installation will be showcased and discussed […]

                      June 24, 2019 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ScrollBar, IT University of Copenhagen TiP Members Vasilis Galis and Vasiliki Makrygianni are organizing and presenting at the Welcoming City Seminar: This Urban Studies Foundation-sponsored seminar aims to understand (a) the role of cities as sites […]