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- Croon Fors, Anna, 1967-
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Accountability in design
- 2010
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Ingår i: Travelling thoughtfulness. - Umeå : Informatik, Umeå universitet. - 9789174590944 ; , s. 293-303
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Gulbrandsen, Elisabeth, et al.
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Re-thinking excellence; getting smart between the no longer and the not yet comments on the convergence of knowledge and politics
- 2010
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Ingår i: Travelling Thoughtfulness. - Umeå : Institutionen för Informatik, Umeå Universitet. - 9789174590944
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scientific Excellence has become the catch word for research politics, manifesting itself in the establishment of centres of excellence all over Europe as well as in the European Research Council. What is the meaning of this phenomenon? What will we find when trying to open up the black box of “scientific excellence”? The need to question evaluation processes seems intrusive, when we realize the increasing demands on knowledge production to be societally robust, not the least within the energy and environmental sector. How do we move towards a situation where scientific ‘excellence’ is automatically taken to include reflection and wider engagement concerning societal dimensions?
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- Jansson, Maria, et al.
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Participatory Design : in Need of Angels
- 2010
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Ingår i: Travelling Thoughtfulness. - Umeå, Sweden : Umeå University. - 9789174590944 ; , s. 115-134
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There is a sentence by Bob Dylan – the times they are a-changin’. This is true also for participatory design (PD) – today design projects are distributed between sites and people, and extended in time. PD is now diverse and multi-directional and in need of re-thinking designer responsibility. How to change our methods in line with concerned personnel’s abilities and ways of expressing themselves? Yet, still it is needed someone that overlooks and ensure the PD process. This is especially important when a PD project results in new experiences for people. We suggest that systems designers’ shoulder the responsibility as an angel, which we use as a metaphor for a person with the overall responsibility for the PD process. As part of this we suggest that systems designers would gain by adapting the PD process in line with the PAR methodology and by the use of Soft Systems Methodology’s Rich Picture building.
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- Rydhagen, Birgitta
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Saving the world (techno)scientifically. Sustainable development and engineering education.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Travelling thoughtfulness. - Umeå : Umeå University. - 9789174590944 ; , s. 151-166
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Engineering is an important force in the building of society. Engineers are identified as problem solvers, but also criticized for causing new problems due to a narrow focus on technology. Feminist theorists as well as researchers within sustainable development have called for a more democratic and accountable practice among engineers, in order to cater for widespread societal and environmental risks as well as moral questions of technological innovations. The introduction of sustainable development has been introduced by the Swedish government into the school system at all levels and specifically in higher education of engineers. Engineering education has a potential to prepare future engineers for engagement in societal aspects to a higher degree, but this requires a more integrated education program where values and discussions are integrated in courses.
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- Öhman, May-Britt, 1966-
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Being May-Britt Öhman : Or, Reflections on my own Colonized Mind Regarding Hydropower Constructions in Sápmi
- 2010
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Ingår i: Travelling thoughtfulness. - Umeå : Umeå University Department of Informatics. - 9789174590944 ; , s. 269-292
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Confronted by new knowledge of her own past, her own family history and a Sámi heritage, the author in this essay navigates on a familiar but now suddenly at the same time unknown Lule River, through familiar land- and waterscapes, now altering before her eyes. The essay is a postcolonial feminist search for the past, attempting at translating it to the present, and pondering on who the author, with this new knowledge, her self actually is. Or want to be. It is a reflection over what parts of her past that has been hidden to her, why it was concealed, and what those acts, by other people – contributing to hiding her past - means to her, today, for her academic research on large scale hydropower exploitations in Sápmi, Sweden.
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