Message posted on 17/01/2020
CfP EASST/4S Prague: Empowerment and User Configuration in Innovation
Dear colleagues, <br> <br>We are pleased to share with you our two panels (see below, Panel 61 and 68) <br>for the upcoming EASST/4S Conference (August 18-21, Prague) and invite you to <br>submit an abstract (250 words max.) before 29 February. <br> <br>We are a Horizon 2020 project working on Scaling Up Co-creation: Avenues and <br>Limits for Integrating Society in Science and Technology <br>(www.scalings.eu) and are interested in various <br>aspects of the co-creation of innovation concept, and how to upscale it as an <br>approach. <br> <br>How to Submit <br>To submit the panel, visit the program <br>website and log in with your <br>4S credentials. If you have submitted a paper to any recent 4S meeting, you <br>already have an account. Please exercise due diligence and look for an <br>existing account before creating a new one. Creating a duplicate account is <br>likely to cause complications. The same caveats apply to entering co-authors <br>and session participants. <br> <br>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at <br>s.tsui@tue.nl. <br> <br>King regards, <br> <br>Shelly Tsui <br>Eindhoven University of Technology <br>61. Exploring Empowerment in The Co-creation of Innovation <br> <br>Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology; Cian ODonovan, University <br>College London; Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich; Sophie Nyborg, <br>Technical University of Denmark DTU; Erik Laes, Eindhoven University of <br>Technology; Mandi Astola, Eindhoven University of Technology <br> <br>Abstract: <br> <br>Co-creation continues to be a powerful way to frame practices of technology <br>development and governance. On its own terms, it transforms passive recipients <br>into active co-creators, lending a participative hue to innovation imperatives <br>that otherwise urge disruption and scale-up. And amongst design, business and <br>policy practitioners, co-creation provides a usefully ambiguous framework with <br>which to guide the design and deployment of experiments, interventions and <br>instruments in domains as diverse as energy production, health care and <br>agriculture. <br> <br> <br>The promise of co-creation is the empowerment of those usually excluded from <br>processes of knowledge production. Advocates claim it affords more meaningful <br>and material participation where the inputs of a diversity of stakeholders are <br>taken on an equal-footing. Yet what exactly empowerment is in co-creation <br>remains unclear, and this lack of clarity has implications for the extent to <br>which co-creation will be adopted by influential actors such as policy-makers <br>as an approach to include society in technoscientific innovation. <br> <br>This panel seeks to explore questions about the empowerment and co-creation <br>nexus. Who or what is empowered, by what means (emergence), and to what ends? <br>Which concepts of power and agency might help us to think this through? Does <br>empowerment for some mean disempowerment of others? What are the implications <br>for ethics, responsibility and governance? What makes empowerment under <br>co-creation different from existing calls for participation in innovation? <br> <br> <br>We welcome conceptual and empirical papers that explores these questions and <br>others that deal with the role of empowerment, communities, agency in <br>practices of co-creation and knowledge production. <br> <br> <br>Keywords: Co-creation, empowerment, knowledge production, stakeholder <br>engagement, innovation <br> <br>68. From Citizen to Citizen-Subject? Exploring (Re)-Configurations of The <br>Public in Innovation <br> <br>Organizers: Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology; Benjamin Lipp, <br>Technical University Munich; Anja Kathrin Ruess, Munich Center for Technology <br>in Society, Technical University of Munich; Meiken Hansen, Technical <br>University of Denmark; Bozena Ryszawska, Wroclaw University of Economics <br> <br>Abstract: <br> <br>In the European innovation policy discourse, the role of the public, namely <br>citizens, is changing. There have been calls for more forms of public <br>engagement with citizens in science, technology, and innovation to promote <br>more transparency, democratization of information and knowledge, and the <br>matching of societal needs and outcomes. To achieve this, initiatives such as <br>living labs, demonstration projects, test beds, makers-spaces, innovation labs <br>and fab-labs are increasing in number in public spaces (e.g. universities, <br>neighborhoods, and popular streets). The hope is that by including the <br>citizens directly in the innovation process through real-time feedback loops <br>through approaches like co-creation and co-design, not only would the needs <br>and outcomes better align, but citizens would become more knowledgeable <br>through first-hand experience. <br> <br> <br>However, in co-creating, co-designing, and engaging in the innovations design <br>process, new trends are emerging. Citizens are no longer passive recipients of <br>innovative outcomes, and instead take an active role in shaping them. <br>Simultaneously, citizens are treated as subjects. As a result, the distinction <br>between end-user, citizen, and subject are no longer clear, and has <br>implications for agency, power, and challenging existing structures of <br>participation and knowledge. <br> <br> <br>We seek to explore these emerging configurations of the publics engagement in <br>innovation and welcome conceptual and empirical contributions. What is the <br>relevance of the terms users, subjects, and citizens? How does this <br>ambiguity affect knowledge production and the discourse of expert versus <br>lay-people expertise? What implications do these trends have for <br>policymakers as public experimentation initiatives become more commonplace? <br> <br> <br>Keywords: citizens, innovation, configuration, knowledge production, public <br>engagement <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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