0SV10

Sustainable Technology in Society: Introduction

SKILL TRAINING

Frank Veraart (resp. lect),

Mila Davids, Andreas Spahn,
Irene Niet, Klara Strecker

Innovation Sciences
Welcome to 0SV10
& Professional Skill Training Program SI

Responsible lecturers Course Content

• Frank Veraart
• Irene Niet
• + Guests

Skill Trainers
• Kimberly Gelton Information Skills
• ESA Trainers Presentation Skills
 Course Weeks Skill Training

• Lectures: Analytical frameworks • Professional Skill development page

• See 0SV10 Canvas main page

• Tutorials: present Group assignments: • Skills have their own Canvas pages!

• Goal: Applying the analytical frameworks • Information Skills:

• Develop your (group) case
• Training & Online Modules
• Assessment formative
• Presentation Skill:
• Presentations (WK 2 / WK 4 / WK 7)
• Online Modules
• In class Feedback
• Assessment formative
Multidisciplinary groups

• Students work in groups

• Assignments for tutorial
• Prepare questions for lecture

• 2-3 SI Students responsibilities

• Case information: Information skills
• Presentation* Presentations skills

• 2-3 Elective students responsibilities

• Write ‘one pagers’

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Develop your case next Friday

• An introduction of the selected sustainable technology development

• Explain on what aspect(s) is it a sustainable technology – your team mates

• The context of your case

• What is the boundary (geographical / application)

• An introduction of the controversy,

• i.e. what is the debate?

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Possible Cases
Alternative food sources (insects)
Bio-Fuels / bio-mass
Bio-plastics
Carbon Capture and Storage
Cultured (synthetic) Meat
Electric Scooters
E-Waste recycling & exports
Gene Drive Mosquitoes
Genetic modified crops
Textile recycling
Geo-Engineering
Measuring Emissions
…. or develop your own case
Nuclear Waste Storage
Urban Mining
Solar parks
0SV10
Sustainable Technology in Society: Introduction

Frank Veraart (resp. lect),

Mila Davids, Andreas Spahn,
Irene Niet, Klara Strecker

Innovation Sciences
Today Welcome

• Welcome Frank Veraart

• Sustainable Technology • Assistant Professor
• Socio-Technical Systems • History of Technology
• This Course • Transition Studies
• Content • Prog. Chair Sustainable Innovation
• Setup
• Groups • Education
• Cases • BA Mechanical Engineering
• Sustainable Development • MA Technology and Society
• Assignment • PhD History of Technology

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Our Team

Mila Davids (Lecture/Tutor) Andreas Spahn (Lecture/Tutor)

Irene Niet Klara Strecker

What is your background?
• Architecture, Urbanism and
Building Sciences
• Applied Mathematics
• Applied Physics
• Automotive Technology
• Biomedical Technology
• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Sciences
• Data Science
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• Data Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Industrial Design
• Industrial Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science & Technology
• Psychology & Technology
• Sustainable Innovation
• Other…
MLP Perspective - (in follow up coures 0SV40)
Global Context
Global Crises

Current Way of Doing

Becomes contested

New Technological Ideas

Get a chance

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 Past Now
Brenda decided to live more sustainable
“To be honest this should not be …”
Jip van den Toorn
Sustainable Technolgy in Society LL Courses
Sustainable Technology in Society

0VS10 Sustainable Technology in Diagnostics & Intervention

Society – Intro (Classic Theories)
0VS40 Managing Sustainable Multi Level Perspective
Technology
Managing Sustainable MLP application
Technology OGO
0VS80 Sustainable Technology in Critical Reflection on theories
Society – Advanced

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This Course
Sustainable innovation = a sociotechnical process

Basic theories to study / influence

sustainable innovation in society

• How does it work?

• Why is it so difficult?
• How can we influence the process?

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Socio-technical system
What are the (key) elements of this socio-technical system ?

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Socio-technical system
Which socio-technical system do you see here?
What are the components?

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Socio-technical system
More than technical artifacts

Technological system consists of many elements

• Technologies
• Vehicles
• Infrastructure
• Actors (parties)
• Businesses
• Social Groups
• Institutions
• Market
• Regulations
• Cultural habits

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This Course
Sustainable innovation as a sociotechnical process

⇒ Analyzed from different angles

Bases on Process Theories Approach:

• Transdisciplinary
• Holistic
• ´Follow the´:
• ´Process´
• ´Actors´
• ´Problems´
 COURSE CONTENT
what’s on te menu?

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Course Setup Diagnostics
Social
Large Technical Construction of
Systems (LTS) Technology
(SCOT)
Sustainable Moral Values &
Development Scripts

Socio-Technical
System

Monitoring
Sustainbility Mediation of
& Policy Values
Governance of Sustainbility
Innovation Trade-offs
Intervention
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 Course Weeks Assessment

• Lectures: Analytical frameworks •Final exam: literature (see modules)

• Readings (Final Exam)
• (NOT: cases/sources!!)
• Key words (see Canvas Modules)
• Grading: 45% group assignments;
• Group preparation: questions
55% final exam (min. 5.0).
• Questions are up-voted / or selected by lecturers

• Selected groups get 1-point extra in Theory + Key concepts

• Time: 26h plenaries; 30h prep
section of group assignments assignments; 84h readings
• Tutorials: present Group assignments:
• Goal: Applying the analytical frameworks
• Presentation (Presentation Skill - formative)
• Cases: Your case (Information Skill - formative)
• Schedule on Canvas
Questions about course setup?

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This week
Group formation
• 5 students per group pre defined on CANVAS
• 2/3 SI students & 2/3 ‘elective’ students

Cases
• As a group develop a case
• Use and apply Information Skills
• Case requirements on CANVAS (next slide)

Feedback on case (Next Friday)

• Present your case

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Case requirement
• A description of an introduction or development of sustainable technology.
These technologies should address ecological (i.e. climate, environment,
nature, etc), economic (i.e. poverty, gender inequality, etc.) and/or social
aspects (i.e. accessibility, fair trade, etc) of sustainability.
• Some controversy. There should be some discussion about this technology,
i.e. proponents and opponents with different viewpoints about alternatives
and/or (by some) rejections to the proposed technological solution.
• A context and/or boundary of application. In what setting is the technology
proposed. This can be geographically bound (i.e. in a city, region, country) or
restricted to specific application domains (i.e. specific industrial application,
domestic application, specific target groups, etc).
• Viability. The proposed technology needs to be already proven or an option
in the near future (no fantasies).
Upload next Friday

• An introduction of the selected sustainable technology development

• Explain on what aspect(s) is it a sustainable technology

• The context of your case

• What is the boundary (geographical / application)

• An introduction of the controversy, i.e. what is the debate?

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Develop your case next Friday

• An introduction of the selected sustainable technology development

• Explain on what aspect(s) is it a sustainable technology – your team mates

• The context of your case

• What is the boundary (geographical / application)

• An introduction of the controversy,

• i.e. what is the debate?

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Possible Cases
Alternative food sources (insects)
Bio-Fuels / bio-mass
Bio-plastics
Carbon Capture and Storage
Cultured (synthetic) Meat
Electric Scooters
E-Waste recycling & exports
Gene Drive Mosquitoes
Genetic modified crops
Geo-Engineering technologies
…. or develop your own case
Measuring Air Pollution
Nuclear Waste Storage
Urban Mining
Solar parks
Questions about this week?

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J.A. Du Pisani – Sustainable development roots of the concept
https://doi.org/10.1080/15693430600688831

UN (1987) Our Common Future (Brundtland)

Sustainable development is development that meets the

needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.

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Many representations of sustainable development

Social

Social Natural
Social Natural
Economy

Economic Economic

Natural

Traditional economy Elkington (1994) : Ecology: environmental boundaries

People, Planet, Profit
Sustainable Development

Economic
Environment
Growth
(Planet)
(Profit)

Social Sustainable development is

Equality development that meets the needs
(People) of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.

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Sustainable Development Idea of Progress

• Linearity of time
Economic • Cumulative Advancement
• Belief in better future
Growth
(Profit)
• Western Modernity (18th century)
• Progress: science is the key
• Accumulation of wealth
• Human mastery over nature
• by technological development

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Challenging this notion (?)
Circular Economy Cyclical / Seasonal

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Sustainable Development
Issue 1: Environmental degradation Concept of Sustainability

• Economic Sustainability of Resources

Economic
Environment
Growth
(Planet)
(Profit)
Sustainable Development
Issue 1: Environmental degradation Concept of Sustainability

• Economic Sustainability of Resources

Economic
Environment
Growth • Population growth & (food) supply
(Planet) • Thomas Malthus – principle of population
(Profit)
(1789)
Sustainable Development
Issue 1: Environmental degradation Concept of Sustainability

• Economic Sustainability of Resources

Economic • Population growth & (food) supply
Environment
Growth • Thomas Malthus – principle of population
(Planet)
(Profit) (1789)

• Stationary State
• John Stuart Mill (1848) - Stationary condition of
(natural) capital and population
Problem ‘settled’ by expantion of (Colonial) trade since 1880s

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Sustainable Development
Progressive Economy & Theories of Development
Issue 2: Unequal gains (Mid 20th Century)
Widening gap between ‘developed’ and
‘developing countries’
Economic
Growth • Modernization theory (Liberal values)
(Profit) • Rationalization (technological development)
• Market development
Social • Mass Production & Consumption
Follow the West
Equity
(People)

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Sustainable Development
Issue 2: Unequal gains Progressive Economy & Theories of Development
(Mid 20th Century)

Widening gap between ‘developed’ and

Economic
‘developing countries’
Growth
(Profit)
• Dependency theory (Marxist values)
Social • Economic domination of the west
Equity • Core and Periphery (World systems theory)
(People)
Break with the West – own trajectory

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Sustainable Development
Issue 2: Unequal gains Progressive Economy & Theories of Development
(Mid 20th Century)

Economic Widening gap between ‘developed’ and

Growth ‘developing countries’
(Profit)
• Modernization theory (Liberal values)
Social Follow the West
Equity
(People) • Dependency theory (Marxist values)
Break with the West – own trajectory

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 Sustainable Development

Economic Compromise between:

Environment • Conservation
Growth
(Planet) • Protection of nature/resources
(Profit)
• Global Equity
• Fair distribution of prosperity
Social
Equality
(People) • More anthropocentric than eco-centric

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 Sustainable Development
Compromise between:
Economic • Environmental Conservation & Global Equity
Environment
Growth
(Planet)
(Profit) Sustainable development inherits
Modernization theories
• Improve economic efficiency
• Belief in Science & Technology
Social
Dependency theories
Equity
• Enhance wellbeing of all
(People)
Resource protection
• Protect & restore ecological systems

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 Sustainable Development
Compromise between:
Economic • Environmental Conservation & Global Equity
Environment
Growth
(Planet)
(Profit) National translation:
• Personal / Economic development
• Natural environment
Social • Social developments
Equity
(People)

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Develop your case next Friday

• An introduction of the selected sustainable technology development

• Explain on what aspect(s) is it a sustainable technology

• The context of your case

• What is the boundary (geographical / application)

• An introduction of the controversy,

• i.e. what is the debate?

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Possible Cases
Alternative food sources (insects)
Bio-Fuels / bio-mass
Bio-plastics
Carbon Capture and Storage
Cultured (synthetic) Meat
Electric Scooters
E-Waste recycling & exports
Gene Drive Mosquitoes
Genetic modified crops
Geo-Engineering
…. or develop your own case
Measuring Emissions
Nuclear Waste Storage
Urban Mining
Solar parks
During the tutorial
During the tutorial, you will work on a poster and short (3 minute) poster
presentation for your case. Your poster (presentation) should include the
following:

1. Your sustainable technology / sustainability innovation

2. The context you analyze your technology in
3. The controversy surrounding your technology
4. Current applications of your technology
5. A system builder for your technology
6. An example of how this system builder designs / designed technical and
social aspects of the sociotechnical system of your technology
7. How this relates to transdisciplinary problem solving
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