Technologies in Practice

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:16:12 +0000

Book launch Monday 26.1.26 at 13:30-15 in ETHOS Lab, IT University of Copenhagen! https://billetto.dk/en/e/book-launch-the-smartification-of-everything-critical-perspectives-in-sciences-arts-and-society-billetter-1790120

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:44:34 +0000

Super proud of TiP member Irina Papazu for winning the Freeman Award, with co-editor Andreas Birkbak for the book "Democratic Situations". The prize will be awarded at the #EASST4S24 conference - for mroe see here https://tip.itu.dk/2024/07/04/democratic-situations-wins-the-freeman-award/

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:43:24 +0000

Wondering what to go and see at 4S/EASST this year? Take a look at the TiP Panels and presentations - quick summary here. https://tip.itu.dk/2024/07/04/4s-easst-making-and-doing-transformations/ #EASST4S24

Fri, 31 May 2024 12:52:59 +0000

Some excellent questions from the committee - not least the comment from Julia Kirch Kirkegaard that the thesis contains an "ontological cocktail, that I would not necessarily want to drink", prefacing questions about Rasmus's choice of theory.

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:25:14 +0000

The first paper in the thesis compares different ways of making sense of urban air in copenhagen, through different kinds of data witnessing - paper available here https://pure.itu.dk/da/publications/data-witnessing-making-sense-of-urban-air-in-copenhagen-denmark

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:02:39 +0000

Kicking off PhD defense with Rasmus Tyge Haarløv and his thesis "Making Sense of Air a pollution Modelling: Framed Uncertainty" - His supervisor Steffen Dalagaard welcomes the committee. see https://en.itu.dk/about-itu/calendar/events/2024/phd-defence-by-rasmus-tyge-haarloev [image description: two men stand to the right hand corner, beneath a double set of slides. Slides reas Making Sense of Air Pollution Modelling: Framed Uncertainty" The slide has the Technologies in Practice logo, with a glitch in the acronym, and a pink glitchy photo of clouds]

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:33:14 +0000

Another amazing PhD defense from @tip_itu this year - Rasmus Tyge Haarløv will be defending his thesis "Making Sense of Air Pollution Modelling" on the 31st of May at 1pm in Aud 3, ITU. Thesis available here --> https://tip.itu.dk/2024/05/23/phd-defense-rasmus-tyge-haarlov-31-may-2024-1pm/ #ituresearch #sts

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:05:24 +0000

It's @jessperriam with a mock up copy of the forthcoming book Digitalization in Practice, coedited with Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, order here! https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110787641/html?lang=en

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:47:00 +0000

"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed", @jessperriam quoting Gibson to summarise the newly launched book on public sector digitalization, in spite of the best wishes of those able to determine those futures #NewBook #sts

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:39:52 +0000

Dr. Cancan Wang opens the Book & Project launch here at ITU, launching "Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions" and the project "Digifront: Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Frontier" #ituresearch

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:09:21 +0000

Join the CASTAC Spring Event on May 6th 2024, 11am- 1pm Central US time. Online via Zoom, for free! Reigster here --> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caspr-2024-ai-inand-anthropology-navigating-a-shifting-landscape-registration-890983233837?aff=oddtdtcreator

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:06:45 +0000

Today in the TiP Salon, Alena Thiel is presenting empirical findings from her recent fieldwork in Ghana on disaster risk reduction, as part of her Marie Curie postdoc. For more on the project see here --> https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2023/mundi-uk #STS #anthropology #Risk #data #disaster #prediction #EarlyWarningSystems

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:09:53 +0000

Former TiP-ster Laura Watts @laurawatts is giving a talk next week on April 23rd at the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE). 14:00-16:00

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:44:47 +0000

Mark your calendars! Irina Papazu, Cancan Wang, Jess Perriam and Katrine Meldgaard Kjær are hosting a project AND book launch event next week on Friday 26th April at 12 in Scrollbar. https://itu.dk/om-itu/events/events/2024/book--project-launch--digitalization-in-practice #ituresearch #sts

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:35:24 +0000

We are celebrating again on Friday 19th ar 1300 as Barbara Nino Carreras defends her PhD thesis "Frictional Infrastructures: An ethnography of compulsory digital self-reliance and collective access in the Danish Welfare State" - for details see here https://itustudent.itu.dk/Event?id=%7B11FAE884-427B-41B0-8BB4-AFB3160F0BDA%7D #STS #ituresearch #ethnography

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:42:48 +0000

In discussion with examiners, Floros unpacks the languages of worker self-description, responding to Maja Højer Bruun's interest in positionality and Floros' capacity to gain access and trust to vulnerable research populations.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:18:47 +0000

Flores' unifying concept is that of 'non-fatalistics analytics of precarity', drawing on the work of Noopur Raval, across the chapters of the thesis. His presentation shows how his project has shed light on the actual demographics of migrant labour in precarious housecleaning work in Denmark.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:02:25 +0000

PhD defense from Kostas today at ITU: "Imperfect Presents, Uncertain futures: Platform Housecleaners in the Danish Gig Economy" https://itu.dk/om-itu/events/events/2024/konstantinos-floros-phd-defense #ituresearch

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:37:35 +0000

Kostas is defending on Monday April 15th at 1300 in Aud 3, ITU. His thesis is called "Imperfect presents, uncertain futures: Platform housecleaners in the Danish gig economy" #ITUresearch

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:00:34 +0000

We're hosting Lisa Messeri in the TiP Salon this week, in collaboration with the DK Antropologforeningen, to talk about her new book "In the Land of the Unreal" about VR communities in LA. The first chapter can be downloaded here https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-of-the-unreal