New TATuP issue on "Deeply sustainable technologies"

Is deep sustainability possible? The current TATuP Special topic brings together contributions that examine the feasibility of socio-technical innovations beyond extractivism, exploitation, and exclusion.
Neue TATuP Ausgabe
New TATuP issue " Deeply sustainable technologies ".

Approaches such as “ethics by design,” “privacy by design,” and “sustainability by design” suggest that the consequences of technology can be controlled and steered in desired directions by using design to enforce certain consequences of technology use and prevent. The new TATuP Special topic brings together contributions that scrutinize the feasibility of such deeply sustainable socio-technical innovations and discusses what contemporary societies might need or even expect from technology assessment in a search for them.

In the interview Mario Pansera, Research Professor at the University in Vigo and director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab, explores the complex relationship between capitalism, sustainability, and technology. Additional research articles deal with different concepts of ‘social’ and with human-centered design of artificial-intelligence-systems in healthcare. (08.01.2026)

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