Science and Technology Studies are taking up urban issues as well, as can be seen from this announcement:
STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology – in collaboration with the University of Sassari, Faculty ofPolitical Sciences and Faculty of Architecture – organizes the Summer School “Cities, Infrastructures, Networks”, to be held in Alghero, Sardinia (Italy), from 28th of June to 1st of July 2011.Goals and main topics
The school program will be focused on stimulating a sensitivity among students for the complexity of urban phenomena. Within an STS analytical framework, the school will introduce students to research experiences, approaches, methods, and techniques in order to explore cities and the built environment. In particular, the course will call attention to the distributed, entangled and hybrid nature of cities, focusing on the following questions:
- How do we map and understand urban spaces?
- How are cities represented and how to represent and account for cities?
- How is urban space shaped by infrastructures, technologies, policies and organizational processes?
- How to describe cities in their transformations, emergencies, everyday practices and lived experience?
Special attention will be devoted to urban controversies; discourses and uses of the city; urban infrastructures and mobility related aspects.
Workshops facilitated by tutors will integrate these topics with morning lectures by leading STS scholars.
Confirmed invited lecturers
- Barbara Allen (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University);
- Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths College, University of London);
- Ola Söderström (Université de Neuchâtel).
Who should attend?
Participation is open to PhD students and junior researchers from different fields and disciplines (Social Sciences, Architecture, Philosophy, Geography, Urban Management, Urban Planning, Policy Studies, Environmental Studies, Innovation Studies) whose research is related to urban phenomena and who are interested in developing a STS sensibility toward them.
The number of participants is limited to 25 people.