10th STS Italia Conference
Technoscience for Good:
Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring
11-13 JUNE 2025
Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Welcome to the website of the biennial conference of STS Italia – The Italian Society for Science and Technology Studies. Here you will find all the information about deadlines, programme and opportunities to contribute to the main STS event in Italy.
Conference Dates
- 11 - 13 June, 2025
- Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Call for Panels
- Opens: 23 September 2024
- Closes: 28 October 2024 [Extended deadline]
Call for Abstracts
- Opens: 9 December 2024
- Closes: 3 February 2025 [this deadline will NOT be extended]
- News of acceptance: 28 February
Registration
Opens: 3 March
Early-bird registration: 24 March
Late registration (for participants): 14 April
Registration for Audience: no deadline
Program available from: 12 May
Info
The conference will be held in person. Streaming is not envisaged.
The language of the conference will be English.
Registration Fee
Participation in the conference is subject to a registration fee. STS Italia and META strongly support a low fees policy.
Call for Abstracts
We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming 10th STS Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring” which will be held on 11-13 June 2025 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy).
We invite you to submit an abstract to one of the 77 panels that have been selected by the Scientific Committee, featuring a wide range of engaging topics. You can find the list of panels below.
Abstracts (max 500 words) can be submitted to the conference platform through the “Submissions” page. Please note that the deadline for submissions is February 3, 2025. This deadline will not be extended. Submissions after the deadline will only be considered if space is available.
Abstracts will be evaluated by the organizers of the panel to which they have been submitted. News of acceptance is expected to be delivered by February 28. Panels will be approved only if they have at least 4 presentations.
Please check the conference website for details and updates about scheduled deadlines and registration fees as well as news about the conference program.
Instructions
Each author can submit only one abstract as a corresponding author, while multiple abstract submissions as co-authors are allowed.
The procedure is straightforward and consists of the following steps:
1. Register as a user: Complete the form by filling in your affiliation, position, and preferred contact details.
2. Activate your user account: Once your account is activated, you will be able to submit an abstract.
3. Complete the form: You will need to provide a title, an abstract of up to 500 words, and keywords.
4. Author information: You are required to list all authors involved in the proposal, yourself included. Please note that co-authors attending the conference need to activate their accounts for conference registration. The corresponding author will be responsible for communicating with the other co-authors.
5. Terms and conditions: Please read the terms and conditions carefully before submitting your proposal.
6. Submit your proposal: Please click on the “Submit” button and that’s it! 😉
Download Call for Abstracts
Download all panels description
1
Imagination and Technoscience: Ethnography of Creative Connections
- Maria Concetta Lo Bosco
- Pedro Carlessi
2
Expertise for the good? Experts and technoscience governance in turbulent times
- Riccardo Emilio Chesta
- Luigi Pellizzoni
3
Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary
- Fabio Iapaolo
- Susana Aires
- Ludovico Rella
4
Ageing in the Digital Age: The Technological conundrum and its implications for Active Elders
- Arianna Radin
- Luisa Errichiello
5
Quantum social science, reflexivity and STS: Engaging with agential realism and other reals
- Robert Braun
6
Constructing, Maintaining, and Caring for Technoscientific Heritage: Exploring Sociomateriality in Museums, Collecting, and Beyond
- Roberta Spada
- Stefano Crabu
7
Who Cares About AI? Navigating the challenges of AI in health practices
- Francesco Miele
- Veronica Moretti
8
Emerging Technologies: Negotiation and Transformation
- Biagio Aragona
- Suania Acampa
- Francesco Amato
10
Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR
- Paolo Bory
- Stefano Bory
- Gianluigi Negro
11
Critical Hype Studies: Towards a Collaborative and Unified Approach
- Vassilis Galanos
- Andreu Belsunces
12
Coloniality, Technoscience, and the Margins: Spatial and Conceptual Topologies of Power
- Alessandro Mongili
- Amit Prasad
- Nil Uzun
- Alexandra Hofmänner
13
Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Production and Media Consumption ‘for the Good’
- Sergio Minniti
- Paolo Magaudda
14
Education for Good. Affirmative technoscientific practices in the educational space
- Assunta Viteritti
- Leonardo Piromalli
15
Designing Just Educational Technology: Access, Achievement Gaps, and LLM-based Tutoring Systems
- Darby Vickers
- Nicholas Smith
16
Integrating Technology, Ethics, and Creativity in Healthcare
- Orhan Önder
- Boris Abramovic
17
From Efficiency to Entanglement: Rethinking Technology, Work, and Organisation
- Cherry Jackson
19
Technosciences in City-Making: How to tackle urban emergenc(i)es
- Saskia Gribling
- Tommaso Listo
- Micol Rispoli
- Francesca Moro
- Shiila Infriccioli
20
Good Technoscience for the energy transition? Dealing with infrastructures implementation and renovation
- Paolo Giardullo
- Ivano Scotti
21
Perpetual Opacity of Repair and Maintenance: Histories of Technological Upkeep and Reparazione from Informal Economies to Political Resistance Movements
- Dhritiman Barman
- Alexander Nicholas Rewegan
- Lee Vinsel
22
Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies
- Norberto Albano
- Laura Gorrieri
- Maria Zanzotto
23
Human-AI feedback loops in platformized consumption
- Massimo Airoldi
- Alessandro Caliandro
- Alessandro Gandini
- Gabriella Punziano
24
University and Warfare: On the Ethics of Military Research in Academia
- Fabio Fossa
- Andrea Barca
25
At the borders of biomedicine: how health and care are reconfigured as do-able problems beyond biomedical expertise
- Stefano Crabu
- Caragh Brosnan
- Federico Neresini
- Pia Vuolanto
26
Dialoguing Species / Dialoguing Disciplines
- Lara Giordana
- Elisabeth Tauber
- Alvise Mattozzi
- Secil Ugur Yavuz
- Micol Rispoli
- Lisa Maria Zellner
27
Problematizing Science, Technology, and Culture through 'Cultured Food'
- M. Fatih Tatari
29
Navigating the Grey: Assemblage Thinking and Digital Artifacts
- Kevin Carillon
- Lilo Meier
- François Lambotte
30
The Intersection of STS and Video Game Studies: Exploring Recuperation, Reconfiguration, and Regeneration within and beyond the Social through video games
- José David Gómez-Urrego
- Stefano De Paoli
31
AI & Democracy. A discourse demanding plurality
- Ilaria Mariani
- Marzia Mortati
- Francesca Rizzo
- Marco Deseriis
32
Imaginaries of green technology, data enclaves, and politics of sustainability
- Claudio Coletta
- Johanna Sefyrin
- Gianluigi Viscusi
33
Digital inclusion and disability: theoretical, methodological and ethical challenges
- Fabiana Battisti
- Lorenzo Dalvit
34
The good, the bad, and the neutral. Exploring the materiality-temporality nexus of large technological infrastructures
- Ginevra Sanvitale
- Lara Marziali
35
Technoscience for (Good) Ecological Transitions: What Spatial Justice?
- Simonetta Armondi
- Beatrice Galimberti
36
Reconfiguration of the City: technology, play, art
- Giulia Conti
- Federico Montanari
37
Interventive Futuring within STS: Anticipatory Approaches, Methods, and Practices for Promoting 'Good' Science, Technology, and Innovation
- Sergio Urueña
38
Entangled Theories and Practices: Navigating Relational Ontologies In and Through Design, HCI, STS, and Philosophy of Technology
- Chiara Di Lodovico
- Elisa Giaccardi
- Iohanna Nicenboim
- Verena Fuchsberger-Staufer
- Virginia Tassinari
- Grace Turtle
39
Data flow integration: investigating the 'good' of interoperability
- Dario Pizzul
- Laurène Le Cozanet
- Michele Veneziano
40
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Designing and Reconfiguring Organizational and Work Processes through AI and Digitalization
- Attila Bruni
- Lia Tirabeni
41
Sampling and the making of good science: examining data collection practices and their implications
- Victor Secco
- Valentina Marcheselli
42
Building Trustworthy Infrastructures: Community-based resistance to technological intrusion
- Maia Woluchem
- Joan Mukogosi
- Sareeta Amrute
43
Technoscientific Narratives and Social Inequalities: Rethinking Epistemic Justice in the Digital Age
- Giulia Melis
- Mino Novello
45
Reconfiguring scientific publishing. Promoting more fairness and equity by new technologies and pluriversal practices
- Eleonora Lupo
- Elena Formia
46
Technoscientific Artifacts, Knowledge, Actions in Irregular Warfare and Its Potential for Peacebuilding
- Alexis De Greiff
- Lina Pinto García
47
Humanizing TechnoScience in/from the Global South: Reimagining Infrastructures of Care, Ethics, and Fairness in the Age of AI
- Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy
- Ms. Vasundhra Dahiya
- Dr. Madhurima Das
- Lavanya Dahiya
- Surojit Kayal
- Souvik Kar
48
Decolonising Science and Technology Studies for Good?
- Anwesha Chakraborty
- Christopher Lorenz Hesselbein
49
Classificatory systems, values, and standards in the context of migration, borders, and security
- Maria Volkova
- Silvan Pollozek
- Paul Trauttmansdorff
52
Technoscience for Good in Agricultural Ecosystems
- Eleonora Dallagiacoma
- Eleonora Ciscato
53
Algorithmic Imaginaries: Discourses on AI in Digital Media
- Lorena Cano-Orón
- Dafne Calvo
54
Re-ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice, and Governance
- Natalia-Rozalia Avlona
- Benedetta Catanzariti
55
Infrastructuring AI. A view from the Global South
- Iginio Gagliardone
- Stefania Milan
56
The Good and the Beautiful: visualizing science in the (post)-digital age
- Valeria Burgio
57
Creating, crafting, designing, fashioning, moulding, shaping, fixing. Aesthetic practices as instaurative practices: how to account for them and for the good they produce?
- Alvise Mattozzi
- Laura Lucia Parolin
- Carmen Pellegrinelli
58
Caring for “care”: feminist STS perspectives on researching robots and AI
- Stevienna de Saille
59
Disentangling AI and Health/Healthcare: imaginaries, narratives, values
- Elisabetta Locatelli
62
Technoscience and the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge
- Jacopo Domenicucci
- Serena Ciranna
63
Addressing scientism through the lens of STS
- Marianna Musmeci
- Alessandro Ricotti
64
Interventionist STS: forward-looking approaches for ‘better’ technoscience governance
- Renata Mandzhieva
- Alexandra Csabi
- Dana Wasserbacher
- Arianna Ferrari
65
Designing Worlds, Worlding Design: The Ethics and Politics of Value Creation in Digital Health and Health Data Integration
- Joseph Donia
- Luca Marelli
66
More-than-(Just)-Human Politics of Relating
- Elisa Giaccardi
- Valentina Rognoli
- Emma Sicher
- Francesco Nappo
- Francesco Vergani
- Laura Forlano
- Martín Tironi
67
Making and Undoing BS Digitalization
- Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
- Minna Ruckenstein
- Jessica Coetzer
68
Infrastructural perspectives on sufficiency practices and policies: exploring the materialities and politics of ‘doing with less’
- Olivier Coutard
- Daniel Florentin
- Claire Le Renard
69
Technoscience and the future of agrifood systems in Europe. Challenges and opportunities in the push for sustainable agriculture
- Marco Serino
70
Technoscience for Peace. (Dis-)entangling technoscientific knowledge in conflicts' (de)construction.
- Ilenia Picardi
- Maria Carmela Agodi
71
Mapping Public Space through Participatory Data Narratives and Cartographies
- Sonia Bergamo
- Enrico Petrilli
- Francesca Valsecchi
- Briones Rojas María De Los Angeles
74
Critical Making as Democratic Inquiry: Reflexivity and Justice in Design and HCI
- Dustin O'Hara
75
Regulation, innovation and materiality in technological transition: a socio-technical comparative perspective
- Alessandro Sciullo
- Claudio Marciano
76
Where sociomateriality lies: Re-thinking the synergies between STS and Information Infrastructure studies in the age of datafication
- Claudio Coletta
- Chiara Loschi
- Lorenzo Olivieri
- Annalisa Pelizza
77
Reimagining More-Than-Human Intimacies: From Disenchantment to Technologies for Connection
- Sander De Ridder
- Stefanie Duguay
- Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
- Skyler Wang