Prometheus (Italy)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0067
B. de Boer, Carla Strasser, S. Mulder
{"title":"Imagining digital twins in healthcare: Designing for values as designing for technical milieus","authors":"B. de Boer, Carla Strasser, S. Mulder","doi":"10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Medicine is increasingly focusing on the prevention of diseases. The digital twin (DT) is considered to be an important technological development for realizing this transition. Broadly speaking, a DT is an in silico representation of an individual that dynamically reflects molecular and physiological status, which makes it possible to monitor precisely health status over time. Currently, DTs are more of an abstract ideal than a concrete technological reality, which makes it possible to actively imagine the different ways in which DTs might materialize. This article develops an approach to imagining the different ways in which DTs can be integrated into the lives of people. It focuses on how potential users want to be cared for by means of DTs and how care practices might be changed through the introduction of DTs. The article shows that a shift towards preventive medicine is taking place and situates DT in this context. Then, drawing on the insights of Gilbert Simondon, it suggests that the notion of technical milieu can be a helpful tool for designers to imagine the practices of valuing to which DTs give rise. Subsequently, it explains how our philosophical approach helps inform what kinds of DTs can be imagined. Then, based on interviews with people likely to relate to DTs in the (near) future, it develops six conceptions of DTs and fleshes out some of the implications of our approach for the design of DTs.","PeriodicalId":38494,"journal":{"name":"Prometheus (Italy)","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86077260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prometheus (Italy)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0045
Taylor Stone
{"title":"The streetlights are watching you: A historical perspective on value change and public lighting","authors":"Taylor Stone","doi":"10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0045","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates questions of ‘designing for value change’ via a ubiquitous, yet often taken-for-granted, technology – streetlights. Smart city trends are spurring a new generation of streetlights, with lampposts being fitted with sensors, cameras and a host of other technologies aimed at monitoring and data collection. This has raised concerns about privacy, surveillance and power relations, arguably creating a changing value landscape for streetlights. However, the article will argue that, while smart streetlights may seem to instantiate a moment of value change, they in fact represent a continuity of values fundamental to the very foundations of public lighting. They embody a set of values – and value tensions – that can be traced back to the origins of modern public lighting in the seventeeth–eighteenth centuries. Moreover, urban nights occupy a liminal space at the boundaries of social order, which likewise informs streetlights’ technical functions and symbolic meanings. Appreciating this continuity of values (and value tensions) is necessary for analysing the potential impacts of new innovations, as well as the value landscape that will inevitably shape their design and use. In adopting a historical perspective on a specific case study, as well as proposing the notion of value continuity, the article offers generalizable insights, as well as future research directions, for the theory and practice of designing for value change.","PeriodicalId":38494,"journal":{"name":"Prometheus (Italy)","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79852730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prometheus (Italy)Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0027
Johanna Lauri
{"title":"The discourse of social innovation and gender equality","authors":"Johanna Lauri","doi":"10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0027","url":null,"abstract":"In Swedish government discourse, social entrepreneurship and social innovation have come to be articulated as the solutions to a wide array of societal challenges and social problems. Within this discourse of social innovation, gender equality is articulated as a key determinant in conquering all societal challenges defined in the UN's Agenda 2030. The aim of this paper is to analyse the Swedish government's discourse on social innovation, and how it intertwines with gender equality in select government texts and media material. The analysis starts from the assertion that the dominant discourse on social innovation and social entrepreneurs is part of generating the possibilities and limits of social change. Earlier research on social innovation discourse has shown a strong bias towards private market solutions, and that social innovation has become an essential trait in the neoliberal reforming of the state. Because of their particular influence, governments' public endorsement of social entrepreneurs and social innovation in their work is one of the factors shaping the understanding of what social change and gender equality are and how they can be achieved. The analysis shows that the government discourse of social innovation produces an understanding of businesses as having a strong desire and capacity for social change and an altruistic agency. From a discursive point of view, this could be read as if the public sector is lacking such qualities and thus the responsibility for social change is placed in the hands of private corporations. Social change and gender equality are hence made intelligible within an economic logic, equating social change with doing business and gender equality with making profit. Gender equality is thus articulated through the discourse of social innovation, as a means to an end.","PeriodicalId":38494,"journal":{"name":"Prometheus (Italy)","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75735341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prometheus (Italy)Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0054
M. Charles, N. Ryan, D. Tuffley, D. Noble, R. Stonecash
{"title":"Australian attitudes towards innovation, work and technology: Towards\u0000 a cultural explanation","authors":"M. Charles, N. Ryan, D. Tuffley, D. Noble, R. Stonecash","doi":"10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.37.1.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Australia, despite its G20 status, has not been performing as well in innovation\u0000 in high-technology sectors as its educational levels and sustained growth would\u0000 suggest. Australia has found it difficult to emerge from an economy based on\u0000 resources and agriculture to a services economy based on knowledge and the\u0000 application of technology. Several reasons have been put forward over the years.\u0000 This study considers one reason that has not been considered in any detail –\u0000 culture and national identity. In this paper, we look closely at a number of\u0000 artefacts of popular culture from the late 1800s to the present day (such as\u0000 art, poetry, song and film). These continue to underpin Australia's national\u0000 identity, despite the multicultural and multiethnic nature of modern Australia.\u0000 This study argues that the current Australian attitude to work, technology and\u0000 innovation is strongly rooted in the egalitarian and anti-authoritarian ethos\u0000 associated with what has been termed the 'Australian legend' or the 'pioneer\u0000 legend'. A national discourse with emphasis on hyper-masculine hard work as\u0000 opposed to education and innovation has favoured policies to assist the resource\u0000 and agricultural sectors of the economy, rather than sectors capable of creating\u0000 greater value.","PeriodicalId":38494,"journal":{"name":"Prometheus (Italy)","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73341497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}