10th STS Italia Conference – Technoscience for Good is about to start

Published: 06/09/2025

We are delighted to welcome you to the 10th STS Italia Conference: Technoscience for Good, STS Italia major event with more than 70 panels and more than 700 participants. This edition is dedicated to unpacking the issue of what ‘good’ technoscience can or should be and for whom.

📍 The conference will take place from June 11th to June 13th at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, our hosting institution.
🕣 Registration opens on June 11th at 8:30 AM, and the first sessions will begin at 9:00 AM.

Highlights of the conference include:

  • Keynote by Ruha BenjaminDystopia, Utopia, or UStopia: Whose Imagination Are We Living In?” – June 11th at 12:00 PM
  • Keynote by Shannon VallorIn a Mirror, Dimly: Why AI Can’t Tell Our Stories, and Why We Must” – June 12th at 5:30 PM
  • Round table discussion “Labor for Good” featuring Emiliano Trerè, Alessandro Delfanti, Karen Gregory, and Kylie Jarrett – June 13th at 11:30

The full conference programme is accessible here and can also be downloaded in PDF format.

This year’s conference is made possible with the generous support of:
Department of Design – Politecnico di Milano, Cei – Central European Initiative, Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Palgrave Macmillan, and The WPI Press – Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

We look forward to three days of rich dialogue, critical reflection, about technoscience intended, questioned and scrutinized for good.