Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present: Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783658271541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str.

Armin Grunwald; Andreas Losch; Martin Meister

Spis treści

Introduction of the editor: Socio‐technical futures shaping the present

Part I: Analytical concepts, types and patterns of socio‐technical futures

Grunwald, Armin (ITAS/ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Shaping the present by creating pictures

of the future?

Meister, Martin / Ingo Schulz‐Schaeffer (Dep. of Sociology/TU Berlin): How engineers derive

requirements from situational scenarios – the basic mechanisms.

Mitzschke, Andreas (Maastricht University): Temporal imaginaries & contested futures: normativity,

community, and modernity in India’s GM crops debate.

Lösch, Andreas, Reinhard Heil, Christoph Schneider (ITAS/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Visions

as socio‐epistemic practices shaping the present.

Part II: Socio‐technical futures in different processes of change

Bischof, Andreas (Institute for Media Research/Technical University of Chemnitz): The origins and

implications of "future" in robotics research.

Doezema, Tess (School for the Future of Innovation in Society/Arizona State University): Globalizing

technologies: Geopolitical innovation in the U.S. bioeconomy.3

Ferrari, Arianna / Silvia Woll, Inge Böhm (ITAS/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Visions of In vitro

meat (IVM): Shaping the future of food.

Meyer, Uli (Munich Center for Technology in Society/Technical University of Munich): The enactment

and institutionalization of socio‐technical futures. The case of "Industrie 4.0" in Germany.

Part III: Socio‐technical Futures in Technology Assessment, Foresight and Governance

Yoshizawa, Go (Osaka University): Reflexive hermeneutics against closing down TA discourses: A case

of synthetic biology.

Olson, Nasrine (University of Borås) / Jan Nolin (Swedish School of Library and Information Science):

The Naming of the beast: A critique of visions of technological rich futures.

Späth, Philipp (Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography/University of Freiburg): The

smart city ideal ‐ Why it is shaping practices of urban governance in Germany only to a limited

extent.

Withycombe Keeler, Lauren / Cynthia, Selin (School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School

of Sustainability, Arizona State University): Scenarios as intervention in socio‐technical systems:

Foresight, sustainability and responsible innovation..

Part IV: White paper on technology assessment and socio‐technical futures

Lösch, Andreas / Knud Böhle, Christopher Coenen, Paulina Dobroc, Arianna Ferrari, Armin Grunwald

Reinhard Heil, Dirk Hommrich, Martin Sand, Christoph Schneider, Stefan Aykut, Sascha Dickel,

Daniela Fuchs, Bruno Gransche, Alexandra Hausstein, Karen Kastenhofer, Kornelia Konrad, Alfred

Nordmann, Petra Schaper‐Rinkel, Dirk Scheer, Ingo Schulz‐Schaeffer, Helge Torgersen and Alexander

Wentland: Technology Assessment of sociotechnical futures – a discussion paper.

O autorze

Andreas Lösch is senior research scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) and private lecturer for sociology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Armin Grunwald is director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), full professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB).

Martin Meister is a research associate at the Department of Sociology, Chair on Sociology of Technology and Innovation at Technical University of Berlin.

Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer is full professor of sociology and head of the sociology of technology and innovation group at the Department of Sociology at Technical University of Berlin.

Blurb

The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume.

Contents

Analytical Concepts, Different Kinds and Patterns of Socio-Technical Futures.- Socio-Technical Futures in Different Processes of Change.- Intervening into the Present Through Prospective Reasoning.- White Paper.

Target Groups

Researchers and students from social sciences and humanities

The Editors

Andreas Lösch is senior research scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) and private lecturer for sociology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Armin Grunwald is director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), full professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB).

Martin Meister is a research associate at the Department of Sociology, Chair on Sociology of Technology and Innovation at Technical University of Berlin.

Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer is full professor of sociology and head of the sociology of technology and innovation group at the Department of Sociology at Technical University of Berlin.