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It’s hard for most social entrepreneurs to describe their motivation. Here’s Josh Shefner @BlueMangoesCorp talking about his experience developing appropriate technology for social benefit.
#EcoDevo #4thSector #AppropTech #Sustainability #SmallIsBeautiful #socialimpact
Final keynote #AppropTech with Mikkel Bille: sensuous norms can shape technology transitions, a politics of the senses.
On the difficulty of describing and illustrating incomplete things and technologies. @kaisirlin @hbriggs @james_maguire56 and the team from @TiP_itu present the bestiary as thinking device. Experimenting with form and digital monstrosity!
#AppropTech
Afternoon session about to start at day2 of the Appropriating Technologies conference: robots, scanners, and digital monsters will take in the room, apart from humans #AppropTech
Abandoned technologies: Jessica Sorensen's cases of robot non-use, mis-use and sabotage, fictionally trapping cars in circles of salt, destroying machinic T welders in Danish shipyards, and throwing bbq sauce on surveillance robots in San Fran #approptech #ritual #magic
Engineering intention: not nudge technopolitics but Denisa Butnaru's work on bodies, embodiment and the creation of sensing exoskeletons in cases of bodily paralysis #approptech
Day 2 #approptech discussions about the transference of ELSI (mostly E) to computer science, the position of anthropological discussions within normative settings of solutionism. From ethnographically studying work practices to teaching case studies, we need to keep listening.
@avonschnitzler : bypassing, tampering with, and sabotaging water, sewer and electricity infrastructures as a terrain of struggle in South Africa.
Day 2 of @AnTechNetwork seminar "Appropriating Technologies - the political economy and routinization of artefacts and devices" coming up. To start the day we have @avonschnitzler giving her keynote on the limits of appropriation. #AppropTech
Thought-provoking papers by @NatKingod, Nete Schwennesen, and more on the hopes, hinderings and tinkerings of medical and welfare tech. Political discourse frame technology as beneficial, however self-care technologies sometimes leave patients feeling lost #approptech #H2020
@Thomas_Sogaard: crack down on drug dealing in public spaces has fueled emergence of mobile phone led drug couriering in Denmark. #AppropTech
Lots of infrastructure talk at #AppropTech - a focus that is allowing explorations of all sorts of conditions of possibility, but also seems to function, in these talks at least, as a quiet acknowledgement of fragile dependencies.
Sunniva Sundbakt and Steffen Dalsgaard investigate how taxi app affordances map on to existing socio-technical transport ensembles in Indonesia.
Nete Schwennesen: what are the imaginations and relations that enable algorithmic systems to come into being in the development of physical rehabilitation apps. #AppropTech
Brian Larkin on how generator economies emerge off the grid in Nigeria, filling in for failure. #approptech
@ayo_wahlberg and @MajaHojerBruun kicking off the 2nd workshop of the @AnTechNetwork
Looking forward to 2 days of keynotes and papers on “Appropriating Technologies”
#AppropTech #technology #anthropology @koebenhavns_uni @aalborguni
Today, we kick off the @AnTechNetwork seminar "Appropriating Technologies - the political economy and routinization of artefacts and devices" here @KuSamf! First up, Brian Larkin will talk about "Generator Life" in Nigeria. #AppropTech
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