STEPS Working paper seriesGrand societal challenges ask for the education of engineers who can develop new technologies for and with society. To make a difference, engineers do not only need to learn about technology, but also about how they can productively incorporate stakeholders’ viewpoints and societal dynamics in their design processes. In practice, it proves difficult for engineering students to learn how to bring technology and society together. Especially when it concerns newly emerging technologies, which bear great promises but are also characterized by much uncertainty and ambiguity, it is often hard for students to imagine lines of action that go beyond linear implementation plans that hubristically push new technologies through society. This working paper presents a novel educational method – Theatrical Technology Assessment (TTA) – which combines insights from Constructive Technology Assessment and improvisational theatre in a role-play simulation that enables engineering students to explore the socio-technical dynamics around emerging technologies, and to obtain insights about these dynamics and the role of different stakeholders, which they can incorporate in their designs and innovation processes.Read more
PublicationIntroduction and Special Section on Socio-Technical Futures and the Governance of Innovation published in the journal Futures by Knud Böhle and Kornelia KonradRead more
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