Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (Copenhagen, 17-20 de outubro de 2012)
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, 
DenmarkHeld jointly with European Association for the Study of Science and 
Technology (EASST)

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Design and displacement – social studies of science and 
technology”
The quadrennial joint conference of The Society for Social Studies of Science 
(4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 
will take place October 17-20, 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For the conference 
we invite papers that address the dynamics and interrelationships between 
science, technology and society. Papers which address the conference’s theme 
‘Design and Displacement’ are especially relevant, but papers on any topic in 
STS are welcome. 

‘Design’ has become a key concept across a multitude of disciplinary domains 
and social spheres. In addition to its traditional ‘aesthetic’ associations, it 
is now a key term in multiple scientific domains and in diverse technological 
practices. One can even think of societies and social arrangements being 
‘designed’. In science and technology, ‘design’ implies the re-arrangement of 
materials and ideas for innovative purposes. When newly designed scientific and 
technical objects enter the world, however, their initial purposes are often 
displaced.

For decades, STS researchers have been following the practical and political 
dimensions of science and technology. By focusing on concepts and practices of 
scientific and technological design at their sites of construction and on their 
multiple displacements, the 2012 conference continues this tradition. By 
bringing together ‘design’ and ‘displacement’ we want to highlight how 
scientific and technological design engages with existing socio-technical 
arrangements in both planned and unplanned ways, facilitating both 
collaborations and contestations, and generating both order and disorder.

The conference encourages analytic, critical, and practical engagement with 
design and displacement in several ways. First, it points to the need for 
investigating the relation between design intentions and their displacements, 
for example as catalysts for change and conflict. It also highlights the 
importance of investigating design controversies. It locates design practices in 
broader political contexts, and focuses attention on how design facilitates or 
hinders social inclusion, locally and globally. The theme ‘Design and 
Displacement’ invites careful analyses of the way design practices take part in 
shaping worlds. However, ‘Design and Displacement’ also raises questions around 
STS as design work and practice-based interventions. In this sense design 
becomes simultaneously topic and outcome, a situation that raises new questions 
concerning the role of STS research.

New this year, individual papers may be submitted to one or more “Open 
Panels”. The call for open panel themes received enthusiastic response from the 
community. 106 panels are available, which have been grouped into 10 subject 
clusters. View the full descriptions at http://www.4sonline.org/files/open_panels_12.pdf. 


Submit Paper and Session proposals now. All details at http://4sonline.org/meeting


 


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