At a time when market logics have become the hegemonic operating rationale of many governments, urban bureaucracies seem to be undergoing a profound process of reinvention: from participatory budgeting or community involvement in policymaking to co-creation competitions and citizen laboratories that expand the range of knowledge and sensibilities in urban governance. These bureaucrats appear no longer as sinister machinic operators of Kafkaesque state violence, but as hopeful and flexible practitioners promoting many forms of public good. In what ways are these bureaucratic reinventions more conducive to the public good than the actions of the market? Also, what do these places mean for the ways in which we might study them?
Las plataformas digitales colaborativas e interdisciplinarias abren novedosas formas de investigación para abordar la producción de datos sobre problemáticas sociales…
Through an open letter to my fellow field inventors, I intend to share my inquiries between ethnographic methods and artistic…
In contrast with more conventional approaches to the uses of theatre for the public engagement with science and technology (e.g. pedagogical approaches to science communication), contemporary forms of participatory, community, interactive or digital theatre have also served as relevant arenas for projects searching to activate publics through agonistic and complex encounters with contemporary technoscientific issues. This was the case of Enacting Innovation, a performance that crystallises a dialogue between social scientists and theatre professionals working in the vicinity of STS in which that seek to ‘stage complexity’ and the paradoxes of otherwise repetitive innovation scripts.
A digital mode of inquiry for times of lockdown Here we reflect on the methodological inspiration of ‘Cor on Collaboration’,…
