Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Workshop ‘Values in Socio-Technical Systems – Design, Ethics and Policy’
Faculty of TPM, TU Delft, The Netherlands. Time: 12.00 - 17.00
The planning, design and implementation of technology and related socio-technical systems implies the trade off between many different values: some public, some private, some visible, some invisible; some countable, others priceless; some short term, others long term. This trade off is not always visible to the different stake holders, in the long process from advocacy, plans, political debate, design, administration and implementation. In this workshop we want to shed light on the many different values that are involved in socio-technical systems, from first plans to implementation. Moreover, we want to explore ways how we can prioritize, analyze en implement these trade offs. What kind of reference do we need? Is it possible at all? We will search for strategies or solutions to deal with the multiple values, drawing inspiration from two ideas that may need to be combined in order to be successful, namely (1) value sensitive design and (2) process management.
Case study: electric cars
In order to put some flesh on the bones of this workshop, the electrical car (not just the artifact, but also related systems – like the required ‘smart grids’ – practices, policies and regulations) will be a central case study in this workshop.
Format of the workshop
This will be an interactive and small workshop (max. 20 participants). Chair of the workshop is journalist Joris Luyendijk. Recently, he has written regularly about the introduction of the electric car in the Netherlands (see here).
Invited participants [expertise]
- Cees de Bont, TU Delft, The Netherlands - [industrial design, electric cars]
- Ernst ten Heuvelhof, TU Delft, The Netherlands - [process management]
- Janne Hukkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland - [environmental policy]
- Ibo van de Poel, TU Delft, The Netherlands - [value sensitive design]
- Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA - [role of expertise]
Organisation & more information
For more information, please contact the organisers of this workshop:
- Willemijn Dicke, Multi-actor Systems Department of TPM,
- Ilse Oosterlaken, Values & Technology Department of TPM,
To register, please send an e-mail to Wendela Nooteboom,
