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*Dear all,*

*this is gentle reminder for the 7th STS Italia Summer School **“ArTS in 
Society. Design, creative practices and technoscience”, to be held in 
Rome (Italy) from September the 3rd to September the 6th, 2024.*

*The summer school is coorganized by STS Italia, Italian Society of 
Science and Technology Studies, RedEsCTS, the Spanish Network for 
Science and Technology Studies and the Real Academia de España in Rome 
(RAER). The call for application is open **unitl April 28. You can 
access it here 
 
*

Art and design practices can help us question and reimagine scientific 
knowledge and technologies that shape our daily lives. To address the 
socio-ecological crises we face, we must reinvent our daily routines and 
establish new relationships with both humans and non-human beings in our 
world. Art and design offer ways to explore and rethink these issues. 
They can be valuable resources for overcoming communication barriers and 
engaging citizens. Science and Technology Studies focus on the 
interconnection between everyday practices, science, and technology. It 
is not surprising that artists, performers, designers, and Science and 
Technology Studies scholars have collaborated, sharing methods and 
approaches.

The 7th STS Italia Summer School aims to explore and enact such dialogue 
to provide an environment for hands-on learning and experimenting for 
early career researchers (Ph.D. students, post-docs), particularly about:
– how Science and Technology Studies’ notions and methods can contribute 
to the development of competences that enable the production of artworks 
or design prototypes allowing to explore alternative and more careful 
forms of inhabiting the world;
– how design and artistic practices can allow social sciences to rethink 
and approach in different ways the entanglement of technoscience and 
everyday practices.

Main themes that will be addressed:

      o what competences and kinds of knowledge more-than-human
        designers need;
      o how to co-design with neglected more-than-human actors;
      o how artistic practices can explore and foster more balanced
        compositions and evolutions of the social;
      o how artistic and design practices can contribute to the
        development of inventive ethnographic methods to investigate
        more-than-human worlds
      o how art and design practices can contribute to the development
        and construction of creative pathways in the communication of
        science and technology;
      o how art and design practices can contribute to the development
        of learning pathways in the field of social studies of science
        and technology

Several group activities, performance creation, participatory activities 
will engage summer school participants.

*Confirmed speakers*

  * Attila Bruni (University of Trento)
  * Nerea Calvillo (University of Warwick)
  * Silvia Casini (University of Aberdeen)
  * Michela Cozza (Mälardalen University)
  * Adolfo Estalella (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  * Maral Kekejian Hernand (artist, former RAER guest)
  * Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova)
  * Gabriele Panico (Italian composer, producer and musicologist)

*Schedule, costs, and accommodation*

The 7^th STS Italia Summer School will be residential, hosted in the 
prestigious venue of the RAER 
in the neighbourhood of 
Trastevere, Rome. The RAER will provide double or triple rooms as 
accommodation for 25 students. Teaching and workshop activities will 
take place within the RAER for an intensive program. All participants 
are expected to attend the entire duration of the Summer School and a 
Certificate of Attendance will be provided at the end. _The fee for 
participation is 350€_.

The fee includes:

  * Access to all lectures and workshops
  * Teaching materials
  * Lunches and coffee breaks
  * Welcome aperitif
  * Accommodation at RAER
  * STS Italia membership for 2024

STS Italia is offering 5 scholarships for early career researchers that 
will cover the fee cost. A selection committee will evaluate the 
applications.

*Important dates*

·April 28th, 2024: Application deadline

·May 6th, 2024: Notification of acceptance and scholarship eligibility

·May 31st, 2024: Registration deadline

*How to apply*

The application form is available *here* 
. 
After space for personal details, the form includes a place to upload a 
short CV accompanied with a scientific CV or portfolio of works together 
with a statement of interest (maximum 500 words), which should describe 
the applicant’s current research and its relevance to the aims of the 
Summer School. Finally, a statement of purpose (maximum 500 words) is 
mandatory only for additional applications for funding (STS Italia 
Scholarship). Applications must be submitted electronically to the 
Summer School Organizing Committee at: stsitaliasummerschool@gmail.com.

*_The application deadline is April 28th, 2024_*


Please do not hesitate to contact the Organizing Committee via email at 
stsitaliasummerschool@gmail.com for any further questions regarding the 
school.

Feel free to circulate this announcement widely.

Paolo

-- 
Paolo Giardullo, PhD
Assistant Professor in Sociology @University of Padova
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and
Applied Psychology (FISPPA)
Section of Sociology
Via Cesarotti 10/12 - 35121 PADOVA - ITALY
Pa.S.T.I.S. Research Unithttps://www.pastis-research.eu

STS Italia Secretary (2022-2024)
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