Informace o kurzu

Description

This course explores how Science and Technology Studies (STS) theories, concepts, and methods have been brought to bear on the city as a complex and dynamic object of study, and as an important site of socio-technical, cultural, and political life. A key assumption guiding our collective exploration pertains to the co-productionist relationship between technoscience and the city: technoscience shapes the city but the city also shapes technoscience. Keeping this mutually constitutive relationship in mind, students will be exposed to a range of empirical phenomena: urban infrastructures, the “smart city”, scientific management, locative media, climate change and innovation. By the end of the course, students should have gained an enhanced understanding of the intricate interdependencies of science, technology and the city. The seminar will be held in English and consists of 13 sessions covering a period of 12 weeks: one introductory session, 10 text-based sessions, one guest lecture as well as one excursion to Futurium.