Fondazione Giannino Bassetti and STS@IEO presents

Institutional design to foster responsible innovation
Special panel
June 12, 2014 – 17.00-18.00
Politecnico di Milano
Via Durando 10 (room Castiglioni), Milano

Programme:

1. Introduction. Responsible innovation and the European Union
Piero Bassetti
Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Director

2. From scales of life to scales of governance. And back.
Giuseppe Testa
Head, Research Unit on STS
Deputy Director, Program in Biomedical Humanities
European Institute of Oncology, Milan

3. How many of us? European Citizen Initiatives and the State of Democracy in the Union
Lorenzo Del Savio
Postdoc, Research Unit on STS – European Institute of Oncology, Milan
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia @ SEMM, Milan

4. Whose biomedical innovation? Challenges in (public) governance of privatized research regimes
Luca Marelli
PhD student, Research Unit on STS
European Institute of Oncology, Milan

5. Challenges to the European institutional design for responsible innovations: a cloud on the Horizon
Luca Chiapperino
PhD student, Research Unit on STS
European Institute of Oncology, Milan

6. Conclusions: the analytical purchase of a scale-based approach for European institutional designs
Giuseppe Testa
Head, Research Unit on STS
Deputy Director, Program in Biomedical Humanities
European Institute of Oncology, Milan

Chairperson
Margherita Fronte, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti

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“A Matter of Design“, the 5th STS Italia Conference will be held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral Programme in Design. Inside a special panel in collaboration with Fondazione Giannino Bassetti & STS@IEO: “Institutional design to foster responsible innovation”.

Here the general programme and the track schedule in the site of event.

The 5th STS Italia Conference theme is design processes. Design, on the one hand, is a process that gives rise both to artifacts and to their accompanying social networks, those that are brought about by the artifacts as well as those that make the artifacts possible. On the other hand, design processes cannot be explained as the result of independent, rational choices by isolated individuals, whether designers, producers or users. They are, rather, collective processes in which humans and nonhumans interact. When science and technology studies meet the latest design thinking, new scenarios and new perspectives arise for both these research communities. This occurs – as the many thematic sessions of the conference reveal – in studying communication tools, workplaces, robotics, innovation processes, smart fibers, medical products or even the human body.

The confirmed keynote speakers will be:

Kjetil Fallan (University of Oslo)
Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University)
Charis Thompson (London School of Economics)

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(Photo: Gear by Stu from Flickr)

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