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Désirée Driesenaar, Connector of Dots: on Regeneration and Nature Based Innovations
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04/11/22 • 74 min
Désirée Driesenaar is an innovation activist, blue economy specialist, storyteller as well as external expert for the European Commission. After years of working in the corporate world as a commercial manager and B2B marketer, in 2014 Desirée went for a holistic shift and became an entrepreneur for a regenerative future.
In search of purpose and sustainability, she developed a worldview of systems thinking in a quest of restoring ecosystems by building bridges between technology and nature by applying different business models and innovations. Desirée’s methods include action, storytelling, systemic narratives, and co-creation with a particular focus on the idea of regeneration – a driving factor in establishing truly sustainable and connected solutions.
We are pleased to have Desirée talking to us today about concepts that are key in both her professional and personal life such as regeneration and sustainable ecosystems weaved in and through the world of technology.
How can one work with technology and AI while staying in close mental and emotional affinity with all that is nature? What are the methods, principles, and approaches that Desirée has been exploring in her collaborations which help set up bridges between these two worlds? We are curious to hear how would a technology in tune with nature would look like in Desiree’s imagination. Join us on this episode to reflect on the inspiring possibilities that nature-based solutions can bring.
Susanna Helen Trnka: The many ways in which people make medical technologies work for them; how to approach building multifaceted medical apps; what’s next for a student of anthropology
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04/16/18 • 38 min
Susanna Helena Trnka holds a PhD from Princeton University in social anthropology and has studied the body, citizenship and subjectivity. Her specific interests include (amongst others) illness experience; new medical technologies and patient-doctor communication. She has studied extensively the politics of childhood asthma in New Zealand and the Czech Republic out of which came the published book = The Blue Child. She is currently doing research on the intersections between bodies, technologies, and temporalities.
One facet of this research examines how digital healthcare technologies are reshaping patient-doctor communication as well as patient-to-patient communication through the creation of virtual communities of care. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Auckland New Zealand.
In this episode we talk to Susanna about the complex social world surrounding the use of medical apps. Through stories from her fieldwork Susanna shares how people make the app and the designated features fit their world; how people engage with other people through the app and the complex world of digital etiquette. We talk about ethics and regulation of medical technology and about how to take your next step as a student of anthropology.
Mentioned in Podcast:
Susanna’s book is available on amazon;
"One Blue Child"
https://www.amazon.com/One-Blue-Child-Responsibility-Anthropology/dp/1503602451
Another book mentioned in the podcast – The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media by Ilana Gershon
Susanna’s work:
TRNKA, S.H. and A.M. ORTIZ. “Reshaping the Landscape of Care: Health Apps and the Ethics of Self-responsibility and Care for the Other.”
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 14(2): 103-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol14iss2id3762017
Trnka, S. H. (2016). Digital Care: Agency and Temporality in Young People’s Use of Health Apps. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 248-248.
http://www.4sonline.org/blog/post/talking_digital_care_with_susanna_trnka_new_research_in_est
#medicalanthropology #medicalapps #intersociality #health #technology #anthrocareer
Nimmi Rangaswamy: Stories from India on mobile internet & Facebook use of slum youth; technology as a force for good; the access & (corporate) ethics of technology
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04/09/18 • 49 min
Nimmi Rangaswamy has an extensive experience in the technology space that spans both academia and the business sector. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Indian institute of Technology, IIT, Hyderabad where she teaches courses at the intersections of society and technology.
Formerly, she worked as a senior research scientist and lead the Human Interactions research area at the Xerox Research Center India. She was also part of Microsoft Research running studies of patterns of technology adoption in various social contexts and spaces in India, ranging from middle-class consumption of domestic media, the business models of cyber cafés and the use of mobile internet and Facebook among urban slum youth.
In this episode we talk to Nimmi about why some people consider technology “evil” and she doesn’t and how people make mobile and social media technologies their own. We will also be talking about topics such as access to technology in India as well as the corporate ethics of working with technology. Nimmi will also share her experience of working in the corporate sector and what is the value of anthropology to advance technological knowledge.
Nimmi’s work:
You can visit Nimmi’s profile at the sites below:
https://sites.google.com/a/iith.ac.in/dr-nimmi-rangaswamy/
https://www.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/nimmi.rangaswamy/
Nimmi Rangaswamy, Sumitra Nair (2010) “The Mobile Phone Store Ecology in a Mumbai Slum Community: Hybrid Networks for Enterprise” in ITD, volume 6, Issue 3, Fall, Special Issue IFIP.
(Full article available here: http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/563)
Nimmi Rangaswamy, Edward Cutrell (2013) “Anthropology, Development, and ICTs: Slums, Youth, and the Mobile Internet in Urban India” in ITD, volume 9, Issue 2, ICTD2012 Special Issue.
(Full article available here: http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1052)
#mobile internet #applied anthropology #access #ethics #technology
Mizuko (Mimi) Ito, University of California, Irvine: youth and digital cultures; access, trust, ethics and privacy
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09/03/18 • 58 min
Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist studying children and youth's new media use.
She has 2 PhDs from Stanford University, one in Anthropology with the Dissertation "Engineering Play: Children's Software and the Productions of Everyday Life" and one in Education with the Dissertation "Interactive Media for Play: Kids, Computer Games, and the Productions of Everyday Life”. She is currently the Director of the Connected Learning Lab, and a Professor in Residence at University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology, Department of Education, Department of Informatics, and School of Education.
She is also the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning and the CEO of Connected Camps, a non-profit organization that provides online learning programs in coding and the digital arts. Her specialities include: ethnographic fieldwork, educational technology, youth Internet culture
We talk to Mimi about her unconventional path as an anthropologist interested in technology since the late 90s and about bridging boundaries between academic and applied fields. We talk about the social and political identity of commercial companies and the relationship between metrics and social and commercial benefit. We cover the definition and time shapes of internet culture and its significance to youth audiences.
We talk about caretakers of youth and the internet; media literacy, access and trust, Google as a learning technology as well as ethics and privacy on social media platforms. Lastly, we talk about the value of using applied social scientists when studying digital cultures.
Mentioned in Podcast:
Affinity Online, How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes, Equity by Design in Learning Technologies
Connected Camps
Connected Learning Summit 2018
Mimi’s work:
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software
Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Social media or other links:
https://twitter.com/mizuko
http://www.itofisher.com/mito
http://blog.connectedcamps.com
http://clalliance.org
http://connectedlearning.uci.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mizuko-ito-17b2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuko_It
Dr. Henrique Z. M. Parra, Professor Social Sciences, UNIFESP, Brazil
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08/13/18 • 48 min
Dr. Henrique Z. M. Parra has an MsC in Sociology (USP), a PhD in Political Science (UNICAMP) and is currently a permanent Professor of Social Sciences at the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP). He worked as a professor, researcher and project lead at public and academic institutions in areas connected to social economic development, (social) technology, public policy, human rights and communication.
In today’s episode we talk to Henrique about his interests and projects in the space of data transparency and civic activism in Brazil. We cover the definition of transparency, governance and the “right” data ; legal governance in Brazil and the case for radical democratisation through open data and technology.
We cover his project in the city of Ubatuba where he helped build a prototype that aimed to empower social groups to access information that would enable them to contribute to the political debate in a conflict over a territory. We talk about the academic, public and private sectors, their position on open data and relationship to each other.
Lastly we talk about his future plans in the technology space.
Mentioned in podcast:
- Open Science Research Project Ubatuba city
short documentary on the project (english subtitles)
project website (in Portuguese only) - OCSDNet – Open and Collaborative Science in Development
- LAVITS, Latin America Research Network on surveillance, technology and society studies
- CitizensLab, a participatory European network of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts. Research project Henrique conducted in Madrid, Spain (in Portuguese only)
- Crypto annual event happening in Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil) (2014)
- English version of the approved law here
- Understanding Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights (2015, ITS)
- The Commons Lab, Madrid
- Gilbert Simondon
Henrique’s work:
https://pimentalab.milharal.org/txt/
Social media or other links:
https://pimentalab.milharal.org
@henrique_parra
Mireille Hildebrandt, a lawyer, philosopher and professor at Radboud Universiteit & Vrije Universiteit Brussels
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07/15/19 • 62 min
Mireille Hildebrandt, a Professor of ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, of ‘ICT and the Rule of Law’ at Radboud University (the Netherlands), is a lawyer and philosopher whose main research is concerned with the functioning of the rule of law in cyberspace. Her extensive intellectual interests in ethics are rooted in her academic background in criminal and constitutional law while she takes anthropology, history and philosophy into account. Her current research investigates the rule of law with the rise of ICT and Big Data whose decision-making process is invisible yet has become crucial part of our daily life. Also, currently, she is leading the ERC AdG research on COHUBICOL: Counting as a human being in the era of computational law (2019-2024). (See www.cohubicol.com.)
In today’s episode, we talk to Mireille about the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), law and ethics. What is the impact of AI and smart technology on ethical dimension of human life? How does AI create the predictability of human behaviors and what are the implications of it? 3 pieces of advice for companies interested in the topic of ethics and AI.
Mentioned in Podcast:
How the body shapes the way we think
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think
John Rawls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls
Mireille’s work:
Book Publications
Hildebrandt, M. (2019). Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk. Now in open review with MIT pubpub, it will be published by OUP later in 2019:
https://lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org
Hildebrandt, M. (2015). Smart technologies and the end (s) of law: novel entanglements of law and technology. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gutwirth, S., & Hildebrandt, M. (2008). Profiling the European citizen: Cross-disciplinary perspectives. Springer.
Mireille on other Podcasts:
BIG DATA (Radio in Dutch, 2018) https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/gdpr/10338785/big-data
Democracy in the 21st century: the impact of ICT (2018, Den Haag) https://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vkqzl6lxopjp/agenda/democratie_in_de_21e_eeuw_de_impact_van
Hearsay Culture Show (2006) https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/hearsay-culture-show-83-kzsu-fm-stanford/id131237275?i=1000049681292
Social media and other links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mireillehildebrandt/?originalSubdomain=be
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mireillemoret?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society studies (LSTS): https://lsts.research.vub.be/en/mireille-hildebrandt/
COHUBICOL: www.cohubicol.com
The PEOPLE project: a learning experiment that helps redefine roles within academia and industry.
The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science
09/29/19 • 56 min
PEOPLE (People-Centred Development in Practical and Learning Environments) is an international 3-year EU program aiming to enhance university-business cooperation. The project focuses on the mismatch between qualifications gained by humanities and social science students and skills expected from graduates by employers in industry, particularly in the fields of anthropology, psychology, sociology, and related disciplines. PEOPLE Project team examine and explore real life industry and society challenges, aim to discover unmet needs of people, apply and test different people-centered development and design approaches, and convey industry relevant recommendations.At the core of the project is the idea that understanding people should become an indispensable part of industrial development processes.
Podcast participants:
Gregor Cerinšek is the project manager of the PEOPLE project. He holds an MA in Human Resource Management from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. His work is oriented towards development and evaluation of different education and training concepts, models and programmes addressing real-life needs of industry and based on close collaboration between industrial and higher education environment.
Maria Salaru PhD, Teaching Fellow in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London and Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University
Sara Arko, PhD is an anthropologist and a researcher in industry. In her PhD thesis, she explored the role of anthropology in international development cooperation, specifically in the context of intergovernmental and government organizations. She is a member of Metronik’s research group on Sustainable Development.
Nora Steenhuis, student of Student Culture, Organization and Management (Msc) International Business and Languages at VU Amsterdam
Today we are talking to Sara, Maria, Nora and Gregor – all actively engaged in the PEOPLE project and working towards a better and more efficient cooperation between higher education institutions and business. The speakers emphasize that the PEOPLE project is a problem-based and project-based learning experiment and share stories from their own experience of how this experiment evolved in practice. This approach allowed them to see the world of anthropology from a new perspective, and are curious to see if – in the future - the project helps change roles within academia as well as the expectations of industry partners towards anthropology. Lastly we ask them for advice for both students interested in a more practical path and professionals who aspire to continuously learn.
Mentioned in Podcast:
The People Project, http://people-project.net/
WWNA, Why the World Needs Anthropologists, https://www.applied-anthropology.com/
Erasmus+, funding scheme to support activities in the fields of Education, Training, Youth and Sport, https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en
Interbuilding Applied Anthropology Meetup, https://www.meetup.com/Interbuilding-Applied-Anthropology-Meetup/
Metronik, Company for Automation, Process Control and Digitalization in Industry and Buildings, https://metronik.net/
Ginie Servant-Miklos: on the art of messy dreams, how to realize them, and the journey of making and unmaking oneself in the process
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01/09/25 • 52 min
Ginie Servant-Miklos is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experience in education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research and education work focuses on developing innovative pedagogies for societal impact. She developed the Experimental Pedagogics educational design framework, co-founded the Bildung Climate School with Prof. Rutger Engels, and is the author of the best-selling book, Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It. Ginie is an associate member of the Club of Rome and Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network for educational innovators in the Netherlands. She is the founder and Chair of the Board of the FairFight Foundation, an organisation that provides girls and women from Zambia, Zimbabwe, and India with the mental and physical benefits of martial arts practice, as well as educational support. Ginie is a vocal activist for sustainability and gender equality, advocating for change through public engagements like TEDx talks, debates, podcasts, and other digital media outlets.
We are pleased to welcome Ginie on this podcast capsule on Radical Imagination. We explore the transformative power of imagination and experiential education in the face of societal and environmental crises. Ginie shares her journey from human rights advocacy to education, emphasizing the need for actionable dreams and imperfect solidarities to create meaningful change. She highlights the role of love, forgiveness, and defiance in education as tools for resilience and empowerment. Ginie also talks about her new book Pedagogies of Collapse. This radically honest, open-access book confronts the reality of collapse, acknowledging the allure of denial and despair while choosing a path of hope. Pedagogies of Collapse presents a compelling, fact-based argument for urgent action but avoids falling into the conventional categories of environmental discourse. The ebook version, A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It, is available as open access here: Bloomsbury Collections.
Angelina Kussy: Engaged Scholar, Activist & Speaker at 'Why the World Needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet'
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09/08/21 • 32 min
Angelina Kussy is an economic anthropologist from Warsaw and activist with Barcelona en Comú, the citizen platform governing Barcelona, working for municipalism and Fearless Cities. We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with.
Her areas of interest are economic anthropology, especially work, public policies for social protection, the care crisis, and transnational migration in enlarged Europe. Her research employs the perspective of gender, class, and other factors of social inequality and qualitative research methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, life histories, and ethnographic observations (although she has also collected data for mixed-methods projects).
Angelina is a member of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili UniversityandNotus – applied social research centre.
Angelina is writing her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on domestic workers and the extractivist social organization of care in Europe. She has also written journalistic articles for the Polish and Spanish press that disseminate anthropological knowledge and social critique.
We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with. Lastly as a speaker of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.
Mentioned:
https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/angelina-kussy/
Media :
You can reach her at Twitter: @angelinakussy and Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelina-Kussy-2
The Arcana of Inquiry: Navigating Ethnography through Tarot as a Playful, Disruptive, and Subversive Practice
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09/17/24 • 38 min
The Ethnographic Tarot Project intertwines the magic and mystery of tarot with the depth of anthropological inquiry. This initiative seeks to develop a distinctive tarot deck infused with ethnographic and anthropological themes, serving not only as a medium for reflection and divination but also as an innovative teaching tool aimed at enlightening students about the intricacies of ethnographic research. The aim is to collaboratively design a tarot deck that transcends traditional usage, becoming an educational resource that prompts students to explore and understand ethnographic research methodologies and anthropological insights. Each card will be thoughtfully re-imagined to incorporate significant anthropological themes, inviting contemplation on diversity, interconnectedness, frictions, and the politics and ethics of ethnographic practice. The Ethnographic Tarot Project is led by Priyanka Borpujari, Dr Fiona Murphy, and Dr Ana Ivasiuc.
We are pleased to welcome the team behind The Ethnographic Tarot Project: The Arcana of Inquiry who will discuss the project's intentions, its origins, and its future direction. They will explore how tarot complements the ethnographic practice and its potential to serve as a versatile educational resource for research, supervision, and writing. More broadly, they examine how this empowering practice can shift perspectives, unlock creative potential, and deepen reflection for practitioners. Finally, they will share their thoughts on what is needed to foster more radical imagination within the neoliberal academic space. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.
We have set one of the project’s tarot cards as a visual for this podcast episode. The Ethnographic Tower card within the tarot deck serves as a powerful metaphor for the tumultuous yet transformative process inherent in anthropological work. This card encapsulates the themes of upheaval, deconstruction, and the necessity for renewal, making it an exceptional teaching tool for understanding the dynamics of ethnographic inquiry.
Copyright (for the artwork): Priyanka Borpujari.
Links: https://www.scribd.com/document/760415134/Ethnographic-Tarot-Project (contribution deadline extended to September 20th 2024)
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