E-CAP 2005

Building Epistemological Infrastructures- interventions at a technical university

Lena TrojerTechnoscience StudiesBlekinge Institute of Technologywww.bth.se/tks/teknovet.nsf

My concernopen up for and foster epistemological pluralism at technical faculties

My presentationElaborate the question how to get resources for epistemological pluralism

My rationaleSituated at a technical profile university / applied ICT in distributed knowledge systems

The central idea of combining established forms of scientific inquiry with a social pragmatic of developing and legitimating goals, methods, theories and products, can be realised by epistemological pluralism and partial translations between situated knowledges of different communities. (Ina Wagner 1994)

Distributed knowledge production systems

Experiences in an innovation node

Society speaks back

Feminist technoscience as a resource

transformationreality production

relevancesituated knowledge

potentials - to expand the knowledge frames and practices - to open up preferential rights of interpretation - to develop epistemological infrastructures - to establish new arenas - to create driving forces for inter- and transdisciplinary constellations

Karen Barad (2003)

“We” are not outside observers of the world. Nor are we simply located at particular places in the world; rather, we are part of the world in its ongoing intra-activity…We are part of the world in its differential becoming.

Develop Epistemological Infrastructures

Technoscience Studieswww.bth.se/tks/teknovet.nsf