GSEJ members Dr. Oliver Pritchard-Moore, Dr. Katie Dow and Dr. Matthew McKenna are convening an open panel P014- Commoning socio-technical frontiers: Navigating cutting-edge science and technology through the lens of sympoiesis for the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology’s (EASST) Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland, 8-11 September 2026.
Abstract submission link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst2026/p/17737
Submission Deadline: 28th February 2028.
Panel description –
How socio-technical frontiers can be collectively reimagined by addressing epistemic and power asymmetries toward more sympoietic futures? Through
Frontier technologies are entangled with narratives about nature and our relation to it. Such narratives are simultaneously affective (shaping hope, fear, and belonging) and instrumental (mobilised to legitimise innovation, governance, and collective futures), particularly in divided societies.
This panel seeks to investigate these dynamics through dialogue with perspectives from STS, feminist theory, political ecology, decolonial thought, and cosmopolitics, among others, to explore questions of power, epistemic asymmetries, and the governance of shared resources.
We welcome both empirical and conceptual explorations on ‘frontier technologies’. This may include but not limited to engineering biology, agricultural science, biomedical technology, sustainability/biodiversity, space technology, AI, digital technologies and other emerging innovations.