Vision assessment of scalable 3D printing in the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order
- Project team:
Lösch, Andreas (Project leader); Christoph Schneider; Alexandra Hausstein (associated); Maximilian Roßmann
- Funding:
Carl Zeiss Foundation
- Start date:
2019
- End date:
2022
- Project partners:
Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order
- Research group:
Project description
The vision assessment study funded by Carl Zeiss Foundation investigates the current visions of scalable digital 3D additive manufacturing. To this end, social scientists cooperate with researchers of the cluster of excellence 3D Matter Made to Order to assess, modify, and discuss relevant technology visions and application scenarios to embed the cluster’s visionary research in a societal dialogue.
The envisioned futures of scalable digital 3D additive manufacturing promise unprecedented capabilities of shaping matter with digital tools. New materials, digital machines, and scientific insights may create new applications and business cases and promote scientific recognition. Visions of the future as imaginations of what might be are essential for driving our quest for new knowledge and new technological capabilities. Such visions also increase the societal perception of and commitment to science and its products. Hopes and concerns, utopias and dystopias related to new technologies arise in different areas of society, even in science itself. Instead of predicting the future, visions shape the present of research in society. Therefore, researching and assessing visions of the future and their role in science and society is central to understanding and shaping the relationship between science, technology, and society. This vision assessment study aims to expand the imaginations of the cluster’s visionary research and make it more relevant to society through the dialogue with stakeholders in politics, industry, and civil society.
Based on the expertise on vision assessment at ITAS, the project focuses on the following tasks:
- Analyzing the visionary discourses on scalable digital 3D additive manufacturing in the cluster and on an international level;
- Assessing the anticipated innovative potentials, risks, ethical and social implications of future applications;
- Constructing visionary scenarios to explore and discuss development paths for the cluster’s visionary technologies;
- Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with the researchers of the cluster concerning the societal aspects of their research;
- Cooperating with external experts, stakeholders, and society to collaboratively shape and communicate the imagined futures;
- Supporting the cluster’s scientists in embedding their research in society and becoming responsive to societal implications of visionary research.
The project’s mission is to support the societal relevance of visionary research and make research and society more responsive to and responsible for each other to foster better technologies within a better society.
Publications
An Unfolding TechKnowledgy: Technology and Knowledge in Open Digital Fabrication.
2020. TechnoScienceSociety. Hrsg.: S. Maasen, 291–306, Springer Nature
Sociotechnical Visions of 3D Printing – After the First Hype? Report of the Vision Assessment Study in the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order.
2020. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000117984/v2
Democratic Legitimation or Naturalized Evolution? How Prototyping Urban Futures Risks Democratic Participation of Urban Stakeholders.
2020. Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds (EASST/4S 2020), Online, August 18–21, 2020
Exploring and Shaping the Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures Differently: Contextual Challenges for TA’s Vision Assessment.
2020. Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds (EASST/4S 2020), Online, August 18–21, 2020
Vision Assessment als sozio-epistemische Praxis. Grundlagen – Beispiele - Herausforderungen.
2020. Kolloquium des Forschungsschwerpunkts "Gesellschaft - Gesundheit - Nachhaltigkeit" (2020), Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany, January 24, 2020
Visions as Make-believe: How Models and Narratives Represent Sociotechnical Futures.
2020. Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds (EASST/4S 2020), Online, August 18–21, 2020
Prototyping Society.
2020. TATuP, 29 (1), 67–68, Oekom Verlag. doi:10.14512/tatup.29.1.67
Visionary Practices Shaping Power Constellations.
2019. Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present : Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges. Ed.: A. Lösch, 67–88, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-27155-8_4
Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present : Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges.
2019. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Visions in assemblages: Future-making and governance in FabLabs.
2019. Futures, 109, 203–212. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2018.08.003
Vision Assessment Study.
2019. Kick-Off Meeting 3DMM20 (2019), Bad Herrenalb, Germany, February 14, 2019
Report Vision Assessment Studie.
2019. Coordinating Committee Meeting 3DMM20 (2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 12, 2019
Vision Assessment on the societal implications of scalable 3D printing.
2019. Feedbackdialog des Projekts Vision Assessment des skalierbaren 3D Drucks im Exzellenzcluster 3D Matter Made to Order (2019), Heidelberg, Germany, July 18, 2019
Vision Assessment of scalable 3D printing.
2019. Review Tag des Exzellenzclusters 3DMM20 (2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 23, 2019
Contact
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
P.O. Box 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Germany
Phone: 0721 608-22505
E-mail