What does a workshop? Reporting from an event on STS and democracy

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Abstract

Last November, a collection of European STS researchers gathered in Copenhagen for an EASST-sponsored workshop focusing on STS and Democracy. Keynote speaker Kristin Asdal kicked off with a tour-de-force of “concepts, approaches and origins” with which to think about STS and politics. The second day started with Andrew Barry’s empirically rich keynote on the different materials and registers of a controversy surrounding an Italian gas pipeline. For the remainder of the two days, participants presented not their own, but each other’s draft papers. This is what happened, but how did it come about, and what came out of it? What does a workshop?

The two ‘doings’ of a workshop

Describing a completed workshop seems at the first instance a challenge of recounting the important parts of the event without boring the reader to death. However, as one of the organizers, I am acutely aware that a lot of work took place before and after (and around) the event itself. Such work is rendered invisible in the way most meetings are reported. Another question that bugs the organizer is what came out of the workshop? Did we achieve what we hoped for? Asking “What does a workshop?” captures both of these agendas: How was it done and what did it do? In this short exposition, I will deal with each in turn.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEASST Review
Vol/bind37
Udgave nummer2
Antal sider3
ISSN1384-5160
StatusUdgivet - 2018
Udgivet eksterntJa
BegivenhedSTS and Democracy - Aalborg University Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 23 nov. 201724 nov. 2017
http://www.tant.aau.dk/News/Nyhedsvisning/-andreas-birkbak-hosts-sts-and-democracy-workshop-.cid337211

Workshop

WorkshopSTS and Democracy
LokationAalborg University Copenhagen
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode23/11/201724/11/2017
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