A group of us are organising an Open Panel at this year's Social Studies of
Science meeting called 'Studying with: building infrastructures for
collaborative work' (abstract below). It's panel 140 on the conference
website. We'd welcome
abstracts (deadline 26th of May). We're also keen to hear from people who are
interested in developing work on the topic, even if they're not coming to 4S.
If this is you, just drop one of us an email!
Thanks,
Jane
Studying with: building infrastructures for collaborative work
Science and technology studies often adopts an observational mode, producing
knowledge about science and technology. Sometimes STS researchers aim to
intervene in their fields of study to achieve certain normative goals. In this
track, we are interested in a third mode, neither distantly observing nor
actively trying to change scientists and engineers or their research, but
studying with them. We want to engage and grapple with the affective work,
opportunities and challenges that practicing this mode of STS entails. How do
we tack between the competing disciplinary and policy winds of STS, STEM,
funders, and others who might (try to) anchor our work?
We invite stories of collaboration with scientists, engineers, artists and
policy makers. How do they arise and what emerges from them? Rather than
dwelling in the land of conflict and complaint, we hope to collectively
explore how we have wandered, flown, or dived into interdisciplinary contexts.
What theories, methods, and strategies do we use to navigate these spaces?
What (perhaps productive and necessary) discomforts, disappointments, and
opportunities are engendered? What do we do when we get swept up in waves of
hype and money? Where do we trudge, fly, swim, sink, or struggle through the
mud? What should we call this STS territory? And what architectures can we
construct there together?
Our aim is to create a community of STS researchers interested in further
exploring this mode of research, and to move beyond diagnosis to develop
spaces and infrastructures for its practice.
(Organisers: jane.calvert@ed.ac.uk;
kmikami@keio.jp;
robert.dj.smith@ed.ac.uk;
Emma.Frow@asu.edu;
Erika.Szymanski@colostate.edu;
tara.mahfoud@essex.ac.uk)
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