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Dear colleagues,
We kindly invite you to submit an abstract to our panel at the 2022
EASST conference in Madrid, Spain (July 6-9, 2022):
031. RETHINKING POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS THROUGH CO-CREATION, USER-
DRIVEN INNOVATION & RESEARCH IN THE WILD
/Panel organizers: Simone Arnaldi, ///Stefano Crabu & /Paolo Magaudda
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In recent decades, academic and practitioners alike have paid increasing
attention to models of innovation whose distinguishing feature is the
involvement of end-users and grassroot organizations in participatory
processes that occur outside established R&D institutional settings and
that, nonetheless, effectively co-produce science, technology and
innovation. Scholars have developed a broad array of notions for
capturing organizational arrangements and situated practices fostering
the co-shaping of innovation, such as "deliberative" and "participatory"
public engagement (Burgess 2014), co-creation (Voorber et al. 2014),
user-driven innovation (Franke et al. 2016), and research in the wild
(Callon and Rabeharisoa 2003). In the European Union, policy approaches
such as Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science, have
recognized these emerging forms of innovation as pivotal drivers to
better align technoscientific developments with the values, expectations
and needs of concerned communities and stakeholders.
Despite such an increased attention to these participatory models of
technoscientific innovation, many critical challenges still lie ahead
and require further analysis: the unequal power distribution among
participants; the long term sustainability of stakeholder engagement;
the effectiveness of participatory assessments; the replicability and
marketability of outcomes. At the same time, public regulators and
scientific communities still appear unable to take stock of insights and
"lessons learned" from bottom-up co-creation initiatives and from
research in the wild activities to redesign their strategies and policies.
We encourage social scientists, STS scholars and practitioners to submit
theoretically, empirically, and methodologically oriented papers
exploring "alternative" forms of innovation that are primarily steered
by citizens and "non-experts" and examining how they can contribute to
rethink the dominant institutions and policies shaping technoscience.
Key words: co-creation; user-driven innovation; research in the wild
Deadline: February 1st, 2021.
We look forward to receiving your abstract,
All the best,
Stefano, Simone & Paolo
