Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society.
Countries represented.
Technologies have life cycles. They begin as ideas reverberating within normative contexts of innovation and progress. These ideas then materialize as objects. This materiality connects the object to epochs of production and the natural world: metals, bio-matter, and other natural resources. Finally, as their life cycle comes to a close, these objects become waste. In this final stage, another set of material impacts comes into view: their disposal as waste or our reuse of these objects for similar or different purposes. The increasing speed of this life cycle stimulates a ‘what is to be done?’ reflexivity that pervades the whole cycle. What does pace of this life cycle today reveal about us as individuals, communities, or societies?
Parallel to our annual thematic streams, the 2016 special focus for the Technology, Knowledge & Society Knowledge Community—“Ideas, Objects, Waste: Critically Approaching The Life Cycle of Technologies in the Age of the Anthropocene”—will be to analyze the life cycle of technology in the context of our current ecological condition, in an era that has been coined the age of the Anthropocene. To be precise: how do we use ndings of the impacts human action on the environment as an evaluative criterion assessing the ideas, objects and waste of technological developments? In turn, how can such questioning shape our understanding of the social impact of technologies, and the ideals of human needs and community interests manifest in the developmental direction and objects of technologies?
The Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Independent Scholar, Argentina
"The Earth System in the Anthropocene: New Challenges for Knowledge, Technology, and Action"
Principal Researcher, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina
"We, Cyborgs. How Humanity is Integrating Technology in its Bodies and Life"
Researcher and Teacher, National University of General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Uses of Interactive Digital Technologies in Low-Income Sectors"
Sociologist and Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires; Co-director, Program for Research on Information Society, Gino Germani Institute
"Internet and Community Organizations, New Scenarios of Political and Social Intervention"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2016 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
National University of La Plata, Argentina
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
