Presentation to the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong at a planning workshop for a new Climate Centre to be housed in Shillong. Part of a UK FCDO knowledge exchange project. PDF file here
Saurabh Arora, Les Levidow, Andy Stirling and myself have just released the following call for papers for a special issue we’re editing in Science as Culture. Full papers due April 30th 2025. Get in touch if you want to submit something and have questions. Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation Summary ‘Security’ has become an increasingly … Read More
Carlos Cuevas-Garcia and myself have a chapter in Florian Muhle and Indra Bock’s book: Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action. It’s about what happened when Carlos and myself spent a week watching a ‘smart city robot comptition’ take place in Milton Keynes’ biggest mall. Abstract This chapter presents a situational analysis of SciRoc, the first ever “Smart … Read More
Authors Olivia Hegarty, Cian O’Donovan, Sara Chong Kwan, Luke Stevens Abstract Critical Fitting is a new method devised to decolonise design teaching in fashion schools. With participants at London College of Fashion we workshopped a core concept in clothing design: fit. The standardisation and simplification of fit is critical to fashion’s ability to sell, ship … Read More
First Summer School in Cyber Physical Health and Assistive Robotics Theme: Connecting Assistive Solutions to AspirationsDate: Wednesday 4th September 2024 – Friday 6th September 2024Location: School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus, University of NottinghamEvent website: https://www.emergencerobotics.net/events-and-network-activities/summer-school-2024 Click to download PDF.
A workshop session run at the EASST / 4S conference 2024 With Saurabh Arora and Olivia Hegarty This combined-format open-panel focuses on hegemonic formations of colonial modernity in relation to transformations. Going beyond Eurocentric concepts like capitalism and economic growth, we situate scientism and innovation, climate and migration crises, food insecurities and health inequities as … Read More
My keynote presentation from the IAFOR 2024 conference held at SOAS and UCL, July 12th 2024
I have two chapters in Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making, the 2024 Manchester University Press book edited by the amazing Caroline Redhead and Melanie Smallman. The work comes from our collaborative pandemic project, The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Chapter 3: Evaluating post-pandemic plans for social care data infrastructuresBy: Cian O’Donovan Chapter 4: Data ethics … Read More
This is a module I created and taught for the first time in the 2023-24 academic year at UCL’s Science and Technology Studies department. It was available as a year three undergraduate modle on the STS Sociology and Politics of Science BSc and as an elective module on the UCL STS Science, Technology and Society … Read More
Stilgoe, J. and O’Donovan, C. (2023) Trials and tribulations: Who learns what from urban experiments with self-driving vehicles? in Artificial Intelligence and the City Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. Edited By Cugurullo, F. Caprotti, F. Cook, M. Karvonen, A. McGuirk, P. and Marvin, S. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-4