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The interplay between digitalisation and the green transition
Their presentation of the ‘Digital Reset’ report insightfully established how the ‘twin’ digital/green transition is a two-sided sword with multiple potentials as well as threats. As yet, this emerging transition is not developing in a fair, sustainable direction – it needs to be redirected, a reset is needed. This critical framing of the ‘twin’ transition…
Read MoreThird meeting with Follow-up Committee 29/11/2022
Sarah Delvaux visiting scholar at Harvard University
Her doctoral research which investigates the co-production of innovation, politico-economic, and the socio-ecological orders in the context of promising innovative solutions and emerging markets seeking to achieve sustainable modes of production in Belgium, explicitly takes its theoretical roots in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the work of Professor Jasanoff, pioneer…
Read MoreOn work and ‘democratization transition’
In her inaugural lecture for the Henri Janne chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, prof. Isabel Ferreras explained how the organisation of work is not only about work itself – it is the convergence point between a range of societal crises such as widespread mental exhaustion, ecological crisis, declining trust, and the resurgence of…
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