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Keine Lust auf Zukunftsangst? Da hätten wir etwas: Im Wintersemester 25/26 startet unser Major „Technikfolgenabschätzung und Zukunftsgestaltung“! 🥳

Das am ITAS konzipierte Hauptfach ist Teil des B.A.-Studiengangs „Liberal Arts and Sciences“ am @KIT_Karlsruhe. In Lehrveranstaltungen ✍🏻, Praxisseminaren 👩🏻‍💻 und Reallaboren 🔬 erwirbst du die Kompetenzen, die du brauchst, um den technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel mitzugestalten.

ℹ️ https://www.liberalarts.kit.edu

⏰ Einschreibung bis 15.9.2025!

TATuP Aug 20

Science is under pressure in many parts of the world. What about institutionalized TA in the U.S.? 🗽 🇺🇸

Karen L. Howard, Director of Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics (STAA) at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), told us about their approach to coping with current developments – and provided some exciting insights into her view of TA by answering the rest of our "5️⃣ questions".

➡️ https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7232/12140

#TechnologyAssessment #GlobalTA #PolicyAdvice #oekom @KIT_Karlsruhe

TATuP Aug 20

Martin Böhnert Jul 23

🆕 New article in @TATuP:
“Whose Future? Epistemic Challenges to the Collective ‘We’ in Long-Term Governance”
→ https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7205

The article engages with concepts from Science & Technology Studies and epistemology to examine the underlying assumptions of long-term governance. Drawing on the notion of Techniques of Futuring and Ludwik Fleck’s concept of thought styles, I highlight how dominant imaginaries of the future are formed and how they may marginalize other ways of knowing and relating.

I argue for greater attentiveness to contextuality, plurality, and the epistemic preconditions of imagining futures.

Published in the thematic issue Beyond short-termism: Strategies and perspectives for the long-term governance of socio-technical change (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2025).

#openaccess #future

TATuP Aug 5

Technology Assessment Aug 5

Im aktuellen ITAS-Newsletter

🎉 blicken wir zurück auf "30 Jahre ITAS" und das Real:labor Festival,

🚉 präsentieren aktuelle Forschungsprojekte,

🏛️ berichten über neue Studien des @TABundestag,

🗞️ stellen die druckfrische @TATuP vor,

🦾 und lassen Jérémy Lefint, Experte für assistive Systeme, zu Wort kommen.

Zur aktuellen Ausgabe:
➡️ https://t805775f8.emailsys1a.net/mailing/246/8497376/748120/1/f5612136e1/index.html

Newsletter abonnieren:
🔔 https://www.itas.kit.edu/newsletter.php

#Technikfolgenabschätzung @KIT_Karlsruhe

TATuP Jul 23

Prognostic uncertainty and accountability, moral uncertainty and ‘value lock-in’: Three epistemological challenges for long-term governance and their ethical implications 💭

In his article, Tobias Hainz discusses long-term governance from an epistemological and ethical perspective. He focuses on three epistemological challenges for long-term governance and their profound ethical implications.

Read the full article #openaccess here:

➡️https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7204/12125

TATuP Jul 14

Navigating the future: Strategies for the long-term governance of socio-technical change 🌍

In the introduction to the new TATuP Special topic Stefania Sardo, Sophie Kuppler and Dirk Scheer highlight the importance of long-term governance (LTG), which addresses complex, enduring socio-technical challenges such as climate change and nuclear waste management.

➡️ Read the full article #openaccess here:
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/184

#technikfolgenabschatzung #longtermgovernance

TATuP Jun 25

Out now: TATuP's summer issue 2025 "Beyond short-termism: Strategies and perspectives for the long-term governance of socio-technical change" 34/2 (2025)

Find all articles #openaccess at ➡️ https://tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/184 published by oekom verlag.

Many thanks to our special topic editors Stefania Sardo, Sophie Kuppler and Dirk Scheer from @ITAS_KIT & to all the authors. 🙏

#technologyassessment
#longtermgovernance
@KIT_Karlsruhe

TATuP Jun 2

Careful handling of marine plastic litter: Technology assessment and care🌍🐟

Waste is a major concern for today’s society. One example is marine plastic litter, which has a devastating impact on ocean ecosystems. In her article, Sarah Maria Schönbauer explores the question how technology assessment (TA) can support a careful handling of plastic waste in the sea.

➡️ Read the full article #openaccess here:
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/183/190

TATuP May 12

How to care about technology?

In the current TATuP interview, transformation researcher Andrea Vetter discusses the role of care in technology assessment and approaches to sustainability. 🌍 🌿
As a recognized critic of techno-fix solutions, she argues for the development of new convivial forms of relationships - both human and non-human – grounded in the practice of commoning.

Read the full interview #openaccess:
➡️https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/183/190

View of Vol. 34 No. 1 (2025): Practices and concepts of care in sustainability transformations: Critical perspectives in technology assessment

TATuP May 7

In der aktuellen TATuP-Ausgabe beantwortet der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Philipp Schrögel von der TU Chemnitz unsere „5 Fragen“ rund um die #Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Jetzt das ganze Interview lesen:
➡️https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7174/12046

View of Vol. 34 No. 1 (2025): Practices and concepts of care in sustainability transformations: Critical perspectives in technology assessment

View of TA Focus 34/1 (2025): News for the TA community