Seminar: "What technology for degrowth?", by Vasilis Kostakis
Detalles del evento
- Inicio: 21 may 2024 10:00
Vasilis Kostakis will visit ICTA-UAB to give a workshop-talk. The event will be only presidential, no online attendance possible.
Title: “What technology for degrowth?”
Speaker: Vasilis Kostakis, is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.
Date: Tuesday, 21st of May 2024
Time: from 10 to 13h
Venue: Room Z/033
This seminar will explore how to harness both high-tech and low-tech approaches more democratically and sustainably for all ecosystems on this planet. Vasilis will share his experiences and findings from a five-year-long action research project. The study focused on an alternative political economy based on a different framework for technology development, with a strong emphasis on the commons. Just as Adam Smith used his famous pin factory to show that another method of production was possible in the late 18th century, a variety of commons-based "pin factories" today provide alternatives for addressing the major issues of our era. During this seminar, we will discuss these alternative technology cases and their relationship to degrowth.
Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the founder of the P2P Lab and a founding member of the “Tzoumakers” rural makerspace.
Reading material:
1.Beyond global versus local articleBeyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development | Sustainability Science (springer.com)
2.Beyond high-tech versus low-tech article.