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Emerging Technologies: towards responsible, ethical futures

Apr.

17

Emerging Technologies: towards responsible, ethical futures

by The UWA Institute of Advanced Studies

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Tue., 17 April 2018

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AWST

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Austin Lecture Theatre, UWA Arts Building

The University of Western Australia

35 Stirling Hwy

Crawely, WA 6009

Australia

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE, ETHICAL FUTURES

A public lecture by Professor Sarah Pink, RMIT and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow

Self-driving cars, screenless technologies, digital assets, self tracking, automation and data - such emerging technologies are often represented through utopian or dystopian narratives that portray them as part of a future in which human society will be strongly impacted by technological change. In this lecture I discuss the role of the social sciences both as critical voice the debates around our futures with emerging technologies, and in an interventional mode of engagement and inquiry in technology futures as they play out. Having conducted ethnographic research into each of the technologies listed above, I will discuss the significant role the social sciences can play in determining how the possible futures implied by emerging technologies are imagined, envisioned and enabled, all of which opens up and deepens contributions towards responsible and ethical technological futures.

Professor Sarah Pink has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Following a highly successful career in the UK and other parts of Europe she moved to Melbourne to take up a Design Professorship at RMIT in 2012, where she became a Distinguished Professor in 2016, and was Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre from 2015-17. An acknowledged expert on digital, visual and sensory ethnography methodologies, Pink’s research is often developed through interdisciplinary collaborations across design, engineering and arts disciplines to which she brings social and cultural research expertise. She simultaneously pursues her own theoretical and methodological agenda focusing on emerging technologies, design anthropology and situated processes of change and intervention.

Professor Pink is committed to combining theoretical and methodological scholarship with applied practice. She works across a variety of themes including digital media, energy, consumption, everyday life, sustainability, activism, tacit and sensory ways of knowing, safety and health and the construction industry. She researches across urban, domestic and workplace environments. Current funded projects focus on autonomous driving vehicles, screenless futures, self tracking technologies, transmedia literacy, and design for wellbeing.

Professor Pink is a 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

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