Co-Imagining Futures
working with experts across disciplinary and institutional boundariesCo-Imagining Futures Workshops
In our on-going Co-Imagining Futures Workshops, we invite one or more experts to the STS Futures Lab to collaboratively engage in Creative Anticipatory Ethical Reasoning (CAER) on a topic related to their expertise (See also a publication on CAER here). Our invited experts select the topic, and prior to the workshop they select several readings for the Lab to help the Lab develop a baseline understanding of the topic, and to identify potential drivers and scenario crosses that might be relevant for understanding plausible future trajectories related to it. Following a short interview with the expert(s), the workshop begins, lasting approximately 2 hours. STS Futures Lab students are co-facilitators of the workshops. Read more here.
Gender Parity in IT Education with Dr. Morgan Benton, Integrated Science and Technology (Computing)
Spring 2019
Critical Infrastructure in Nepal with Dr. Galen Murton, Geographic Sciences
Fall 2019
Geoengineering and Public Engagement with Dr. Nicole Mogul and Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland College Park (Science, Technology, and Society)
Spring 2020
Spectrum Innovation with Dr. Tolu Odumosu, Integrated Science and Technology (Social Contexts)
Fall 2020
Imagining Feminist Microbiome Research with Dr. Becca Howes-Mischel, Anthropology
Spring 2021
Synthetic Biological Machines with Dr. Stephanie Stockwell, Integrated Science and Technology and Biotechnology, and Dr. Kyle Gipson, Engineering
Spring 2021
Co-Imagining Futures Essay on STS Infrastructures
A multimodal essay about Co-Imagining Futures and the STS Futures Lab on the STS Infrastructures Platform