BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:528@hiig.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180427T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180427T000000 DTSTAMP:20180914T081927Z URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/workshop-exploring-future-imaginaries/ SUMMARY:“We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries | Workshop DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance via the form below until the 25th of April.\n\n“We are on a mission to build a more open\, accessible\, and fair financial future\, one piece of software at a time” promises the so ftware platform Blockchain. “Imagine if everyone could get around easily and safely\, without tired\, drunk or distracted driving” envisions the self-driving car company Waymo (a subsidiary of Google's parent company\, Alphabet Inc.). “The Regulation is an essential step to strengthen citi zens' fundamental rights in the digital age and facilitate business by sim plifying rules for companies in the Digital Single Market” claims the Eu ropean Commission with regard to the General Data Protection Regulation.\n \nThese examples show how imaginaries of future societies are enacted to p romote digital innovations or legitimate certain modes of internet governa nce. They illustrate how software providers\, tech companies and legislato rs dig into the rich pool of cultural norms\, visions and values to suppor t (or question) digital tools\, rules and regulations. Future prospects se em to be central for making decisions in the present.\n\n \;\nWORKSHOP \n“We are on a mission”\nExploring the role of future imaginaries in t he making and governing of digital technology\nFriday\, 27 April 2018 | HI IG | Französische Straße 9 | 10117 Berlin\nKeynote: Sally Wyatt\, Profes sor of Digital Cultures\, Maastricht University\n \;\nProgramme\n09:00 Welcome\n\n09:15 Keynote: ‘Imagine you are an iPhone\, recharging’. Technological imaginaries in fiction\, policy and everyday life Sally Wyat t (Maastricht University)\n\nAs more and more attention is given to mindfu lness and digital detox\, it was a surprise to hear my yoga teacher asking us to imagine being iPhones. It set me thinking (probably not the intenti on of my yoga teacher) about the multidirectional nature of imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technologies. In this lecture\, I wil l examine different sources of future imaginaries – such as novels\, fil ms\, metaphors\, policy documents – and how they might affect designers\ , industrialists\, policy makers\, and (non)users (in all of their potenti al roles as citizens\, consumers\, patients\, passengers). I will also pay attention to the recursive relationship between imaginaries and the reali ties they attempt to describe or construct.\n\n10:00 Session 1: Conceptual Impulses \n\nGoda Klumbyte and Claude Draude (University of Kassel)\nFrom Figurations to Scenario Building. Towards constructing a methodology for accountable imaginaries \n\nChristoph Ernst (University of Bonn)\n“Techn o Imagination” – Towards a theory of imagination as media practice\n\n Niels ten Oever and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)\nImaginaries and metaphors of a changing internet: Against the ossification of infrastr ucture\n\nAnita Chan (University of Illinois)\nOf Data Cultures and F(r)ic tions: Decentering Data Futures from “Internet Freedom” Community Netw orks\n\nKarsten Weber (OTH Regensburg)\nComputers as crowbars to change so ciety: Images of computers and the future they will bring about in the ear ly days of IT\n11:30 Coffee Break\n12:00 Session 2: Methodological Innova tions and Interventions \n\nMirko Tobias Schäfer (Utrecht University)\n “We built this city on proprietary algorithms” Revisiting Corporate an d Governmental Imaginations of data‐driven Public Management\n\nHannah G latte\, Fabian Schroth and Gesine Last (Fraunhofer CeRRI)\nBroadening Hori zons: Shaping future technology solutions for rural areas - process design \, speculative scenarios and needs orientation\n\nTuukka Lehtiniemi (Aalto University)\nMyData as a national socio-technical imaginary of a future d ata economy\n\nKarsten Wendland (Hochschule Aalen) and Christian Wadephul (KIT)\nThe Magic of Blockchain – A Look behind the Scenes of three Smart Contract based Flagship Projects\n\nAafke Fraaije (Vrije Universiteit Ams terdam)\nThe creative democracy\n13:30 Lunch\n14:30 Session 3: Case Stud ies – Policy and Infrastructures\n\nBernd Stahl\, Tyr Fothergill\, Inga Ulnicane and William Knight (DeMontfort University)\nFrom Grand Design to the Unimagined. Competing visions of big neuroscience technology and their normative implications\n\nAnna Wallsten (Linköpings University)\nMobiliz ed\, tweaked and curtailed: On how imaginaries are enacted in a smart grid demonstration project\n\nLeslie Quitzow (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)\nImagining smart urban energy futures\n\nGötz Bachmann (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)\nRadical Engineering. An Ethnography of Promise\n\nPhilippe Saner (University of Luzern)\nEducating the future. T he role of “skills gaps” and methods in political and economic scenari os of the future”\n\n16:00 Coffee Break\n\n16:30 Session 4: Case Studie s - Media\n\nDelia Dumitrica (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Georgia G. Jones (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology)\nDeveloping the Control Imaginary: TIME magazine’s symbolic construction of digital technologies \n\nJoachim Haupt (UdK Berlin)\nExploring Facebook’s Circulative Communi cation about the Future of Humanity\n\nJaron Harambam and Mykola Makhortyk h (University of Amsterdam)\nAll the news you want to read: Personalizatio n as the future imaginary of the news industry\n\nTamas Tofalvy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)\nWhen future visions and tradition s of innovation collide: lessons for the future from the early reception o f the iPad\n\nMaud Bernisson (Karlstad University)\nWhen innovation disrup ts tradition…\n18:00 End of Workshop\nFind here the Call for Papers and the Book of Abstracts.\nOrganisers\nAstrid Mager\nInstitute of Technology Assessment (ITA)\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\nElise Richter Fellow\, Au strian Science Fund (FWF)\, project no. V511-G29\nastrid.mager@oeaw.ac.at\ n\nChristian Katzenbach\nAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society\nkatzenbach@hiig.de\n\n\n\nHeader image: Jean-Marc Côté: En L'A n 2000\, edited by HIIG\, CC0 1.0 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/W eAreOnAMission_16x9_3.png CATEGORIES:Issues in Focus LOCATION:Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society\, Französische Straß e 9\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Französische Straße 9\, B erlin\, 10117\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR