Dear everyone,
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<br>Please consider submitting an abstract for the open panel 61 - Exploring
<br>Empowerment in the Co-creation of Innovation @ 4S/EASST, August 18-21,
<br>Prague.
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<br>DEADLINE is tomorrow, 29 February!
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<br>61. Exploring Empowerment in the Co-creation of Innovation
<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>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>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>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.
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<br>Shelly Tsui, Eindhoven University of Technology;
<br>Cian O'Donovan, University College London;
<br>Makoto Takahashi, Technical University Munich;
<br>Sophie Nyborg, Technical University of Denmark - DTU;
<br>Erik Laes, Eindhoven University of Technology;
<br>Mandi Astola, E, Eindhoven University of Technology
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<br>Sophie Nyborg
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<br>Forsker
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<br>Department of Technology, Management and Economics
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<br>Innovation Division
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<br>Dir. +45 45 25 45 40
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<br>sonyb@dtu.dk
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<br>Akademivej
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<br>Building 358, room 168
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<br>2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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<br>www.dtu.dk/english
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