Thinking about past and future T*ECO*LOGIES - Whose Tech? Whose Logic? Whose Ecologies?

Interdisciplinary Summer School, 17th to 18th August 2023

Helmholtzstraße 14 (Merkel-Bau), Room 118,  TUD

Interdisciplinary Summer School, 17th to 18th August 2023
Helmholtzstraße 14 (Merkel-Bau), Room 118,
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Why is today's world the way it is and who has contributed to it? What role does/did technology play in it? Who has shaped technology in the past? What can technology do in the future? What kind of world do we as humans want to live in? What responsibilities do we have as future and established engineers and technology researchers? How do we have influence? Who or what do we consider, overlook or exclude? What do we hope for? What do we consider possible and feasible and where do we see limits to what is possible and feasible? 

Young and experienced technology researchers, engineers and people interested in technology and social issues from technical, social science and humanities disciplines are cordially invited to consider and discuss answers to these questions together over two days.

We will take a look at the past to understand who has influenced our socio-technical world and create scenarios of how future human-technology-nature relationships beyond exploitation, subjugation and exclusion become possible, so that a socially and environmentally just coexistence will be achieved for many. We have invited inspiring guest speakers who will provide new impulses and open up unusual perspectives in various workshops. We look forward to going on a journey of discovery with you to rewrite the past and reinvent the future!  
The workshops will be held alternately in German and English. Participation in the Summer School is free of charge thanks to the financial support from gender equality funds of the School of Engineering Sciences and the Eleonore Trefftz Program of TUD! We look forward to receiving your applications until the deadline: July 25, 2023

Highlights: 

• Searching for traces on the TUD campus of influential female scientists and their contributions to technology research and development
• Guests are the art and design research duo MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr) and Ines Weigand, Research Associate of the Design, Diversity & New Commons Group at the Weizenbaum Institute/University of the Arts Berlin
• Get together with all speakers and participants on Thursday evening