Technology and Sustainable Development 2025 (TSD25) is an interdisciplinary conference arranged June 12th and 13th, 2025.
Update Feb 12, 2025: We are extending the deadline for submissions to Feb 28. All submissions should be submitted to henrsae@ifi.uio.no and majava@ifi.uio.no. The submissions need not be anonymised. (See the CFP for more details).
Also, we are finalising the details regarding the venue etc., and expect to be able to provide more information very soon.
June 12th & 13th, 2025
Location:
A lodge/cabin in Norway
The conference will by physical only.
About the conference
Technology is increasingly presented as the cure to our ills. And ill we arguably are, radical inequality continues to grow, the natural world is bulldosed and our climate changes, species die, humans are poisoned, jobs lost and changed, and bombs crush and bullets pierce human flesh.
All of the above relate to sustainable development, and all relate to technology. This conference explores whether technology can be used to fix the very problems caused by technology, and encompasses social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Suggested thematic areas of interest:
- technology and growth
- high and low technology
- techno-solutionism and techno-fixes
- narratives and perceptions of low technology
- technology and power
- technology and democracy
- radical conceptualisations of technology
- resistance to technology
- scenarios and low technology
- sociotechnical imaginaries
- science fiction and alternative technology
- development, progress and technology
- quality of life and technology
Keynotes
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Organizers
Chair and conference initiator and founder: Henrik Skaug Sætra (henrsae@ifi.uio.no)
Co-chair: Maja van der Velden (majava@ifi.uio.no)
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Sponsors
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