Nyhetsflöde

FöreläsningPanel debate

Panel debate: Images of the future¶

Content: Course participants have been presented with a variety of images of the future. This lecture won't be a lecture at all, but rather a discussion between invited guests who are expected to have widely differing ideas and opinions about the future, and about the future of sustainability. Can we imagine a future sustainable society? What would it look like? What are our chances and what is our best course of action in attempting to reach that future? Furthermore, what is the role of ICT and media in relation to these questions and issues? ¶

This information will be updated with short bios about the panelists so please check back later!¶

Panel debate: Images of the future

Content: Course participants have been presented with a variety of images of the future. This lecture won't be a lecture at all, but rather a discussion between invited guests who are expected to have widely differing ideas and opinions about the future, and about the future of sustainability. Can we imagine a future sustainable society? What would it look like? What are our chances and what is our best course of action in attempting to reach that future? Furthermore, what is the role of ICT and media in relation to these questions and issues? ¶ This information will be updated with short bios about the panelists so please check back later!Panelists:¶


* Elin Bergman, Corporate partnerships, World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)
* John Howchin, Secretary General, The Ethical Council of the Swedish Pension Funds
* Somya Joshi, Senior lecturer, Dept. of Computer & Systems Science, Stockholm University
* Maria Normark, Senior lecturer in Media Technology, Södertörn University
Content: Course participants have been presented with a variety of images of the future. This lecture won't be a lecture at all, but rather a discussion between invited guests who are expected to have widely differing ideas and opinions about the future, and about the future of sustainability. Can we imagine a future sustainable society? What would it look like? What are our chances and what is our best course of action in attempting to reach that future? Furthermore, what is the role of ICT and media in relation to these questions and issues? ¶

Elin Bergman is the chairman of the board of the circular economy network "Cradlenet" and she is responsible for corporate partnerships at WWF Sweden. Cradlenet is a non-profit network that promotes the benefits of moving towards a circular economy aimed towards the business sector through ICT-channels and by organising events. At WWF Sweden she is in charge of coordination, implementation and communication of the organisation's corporate engagements. Elin has worked in the sustainability and social responsibility sector since 2007 at Stockholms Stadsmission and at the sustainability consultants Respect and Tricorona. Prior to that she worked in the entertainment sector for the computer games and movie industry at Massive Entertainment, Vivendi Universal Games and Twentieth Century Fox.  Elin holds a Bachelor degree in Culture, Society, Media production from Linköping University.¶

John Howchin is Secretary General of the Ethical Council for the First, Second, Third and Fourth Swedish national pension funds. He is in charge of strategy, research and coordination of corporate engagement of the Council. John is also a member of the asset management committee at Mistra, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. John has worked with socially responsible investments and corporate social responsibility since 1998. Prior to joining the Ethical Council he worked as senior analyst at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in Oslo, Norway, where he was in charge of the environmental strategy. Previous positions include five years at GES Investment Services as deputy CEO and Head of research. He also co-founded Green Index who produced the Folksam climate change index, the first of its kind when released in 2000 and has also worked with sustainability management at the Swedish/Swiss company ABB. John holds a BSc in environmental science and human ecology at Goteborg University.¶

Somya Joshi is a research scientist with expertise in the field of ICT when applied to Social Inclusion & Sustainability. Her specialisation falls within the applied context of technological innovation, particularly in how it translates into transparency in governance, environmental conservation and health services within the developing world. She has experience working with a range of partners from academia, industry, NGOs, as well as international development organisations towards the common goal of facilitating inclusive development. Currently, Somya is a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at eGovernance-Lab at the Department of Computer & Systems Science (DSV) at Stockholm University. She is responsible for course development and teaching in two Masters programs - ICT4D (ICT for Development) and Open Governance & e-Democracy. She is also teaching an Undergraduate course on Participatory Design and HCI with a specific focus on Sustainability.¶

Maria Normark is a senior lecturer in Media Technology at Södertörn University since 2006. Her main interests are collaboration in practice, design quality and norm-critical design in several domains; youth counseling online, sustainable lifestyle and art/theatre. Normark earlier held a 3-year VinnMER Fellowship and was during this period a visiting researcher at Mobile Life VINN Excellent Centre i Kista. One of the main projects was ‘EcoFriends’, the development of a prototype app that dealt with changed practices concerning buying seasonal food. Her current project, ‘Sustainable Communities through Digital Design’ is financed by the Baltic Sea Foundation and concerns urban farming and digital design. Urban farming makes a suitable case for investigating how values and ideas are shared, communicated and reproduced through digital platforms.¶

MånTisdag 212 september 2015 kl 136:00 - 158:00

E32

TisMåndag 221 september 2015 kl 163:00 - 185:00

E23

FöreläsningLecture 8

Guest lecture from Ericsson

Guest lecture from EricssonEricsson Sustainability – Technology for good Lecturer: Mine Ercan, Ericsson Content: The lecture will give an insight on how we address sustainability issues at Ericsson where we take a broad view of sustainability that includes social, environmental and economic aspects. Specifically, our fact-based research focuses on: methodology development for impact assessment, life cycle assessment of products and networks, proof points that illustrate the enablement potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to drive sustainable development, the macroeconomic effects of ICT and the end-to-end energy performance of our networks. Along the way, a number of relevant ICT  trends and concrete examples will illustrate possible contributions to more sustainable practices.¶

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About: ¶

Mine Ercan is an experienced researcher at Ericsson Research in the area of Sustainability focusing on ICT and their impact on a sustainable future.¶

More about sustainability and corporate responsibility at: http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/sustainability-corporateresponsibility¶

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Literature:¶

von Heland, F, Westerberg, P. and Nyberg, M. Using Minecraft as a citizen participation tool in urban design and decision making. Manuscript (not yet published).¶

von Heland, F, Bondesson, A., Nyberg, M. and Westerberg, P. (2015). The Citizen Field Engineer: Crowdsourced Maintenance of Connected Water Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark.¶

Please also glance through:¶

Malmodin, J. and Bergmark, P. (2015). Exploring the effect of ICT solutions on GHG emissions in 2030. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark.¶

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Ericsson Sustainability – Technology for good Guest Lecturer: Mine Ercan, Ericsson Content: The lecture will give an insight on how we address sustainability issues at Ericsson where we take a broad view of sustainability that includes social, environmental and economic aspects. Specifically, our fact-based research focuses on: methodology development for impact assessment, life cycle assessment of products and networks, proof points that illustrate the enablement potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to drive sustainable development, the macroeconomic effects of ICT and the end-to-end energy performance of our networks. Along the way, a number of relevant ICT  trends and concrete examples will illustrate possible contributions to more sustainable practices.

About: 

Mine Ercan is an experienced researcher at Ericsson Research in the area of Sustainability focusing on ICT and their impact on a sustainable future.

More about sustainability and corporate responsibility at: http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/sustainability-corporateresponsibility

Literature:

von Heland, F, Westerberg, P. and Nyberg, M. Using Minecraft as a citizen participation tool in urban design and decision making. Manuscript (not yet published).

von Heland, F, Bondesson, A., Nyberg, M. and Westerberg, P. (2015). The Citizen Field Engineer: Crowdsourced Maintenance of Connected Water Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Please also glance through:

Malmodin, J. and Bergmark, P. (2015). Exploring the effect of ICT solutions on GHG emissions in 2030. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark.

MånTisdag 289 september 2015 kl 135:00 - 157:00

TisMåndag 298 september 2015 kl 153:00 - 175:00

MånTisdag 289 september 2015 kl 1308:00 - 150:00

EQ2

FöreläsningLecture 10

Social sustainability and ICT Guest lecturer: Elisabeth Ekener Petersen, PhD Content: The lecture gives a brief introduction to the concept of social sustainability and the engineer’s responsibility for (socially) sustainable technological development. The first part of the lecture discusses the idea of a ‘safe and just space for humanity’ presented in Raworth (2012). In the second part of the lecture, tools for including social sustainability aspects into engineering practice, such as social life-cycle assessment, are introduced using examples from ICT.¶

About: The research of Elisabeth Ekener Petersen is focusing in the social dimension of sustainable development. She was involved in the international  process of developing the standard ISO 26000 Social responsibility. She has a PhD in Social Life Cycle Assessment and has conducted several case studies using this methodology. At present she works in a number of projects addressing social impacts in areas such as sustainable cities, vehicle fuels and biotechnology.¶

Literature:¶

Raworth, K. 2012. A safe and just space for humanity: Can we live within the doughnut? Oxfam Dicsussion Papers. Oxfam, UK.¶

Chhipi-Shresth, G.K., Hewage, K., and Sadiq, R. 2015. ‘Socializing’ sustainability: a critical review on current development status of social life cycle impact assessment method. Glean Techn Environ Policy, 17:579-596 ¶

Social sustainability and ICT Guest lecturer: Elisabeth Ekener Petersen, PhD Content: The lecture gives a brief introduction to the concept of social sustainability and the engineer’s responsibility for (socially) sustainable technological development. The first part of the lecture discusses the idea of a ‘safe and just space for humanity’ presented in Raworth (2012). In the second part of the lecture, tools for including social sustainability aspects into engineering practice, such as social life-cycle assessment, are introduced using examples from ICT.

About: The research of Elisabeth Ekener Petersen is focusing in the social dimension of sustainable development. She was involved in the international  process of developing the standard ISO 26000 Social responsibility. She has a PhD in Social Life Cycle Assessment and has conducted several case studies using this methodology. At present she works in a number of projects addressing social impacts in areas such as sustainable cities, vehicle fuels and biotechnology.

Literature:

Raworth, K. 2012. A safe and just space for humanity: Can we live within the doughnut? Oxfam Dicsussion Papers. Oxfam, UK.

Chhipi-Shresth, G.K., Hewage, K., and Sadiq, R. 2015. ‘Socializing’ sustainability: a critical review on current development status of social life cycle impact assessment method. GClean Techn Environ Policy, 17:579-596

MånTisdag 145 september 2015 kl 135:00 - 157:00

E3L1

TisMåndag 154 september 2015 kl 153:00 - 175:00

L1E3

FöreläsningLecture 6

First-order effects of ICT and Obsolescence Lecturer: Daniel Pargman Content: The first part of the lecture will concern first-order effects. In terms of direct, first-order effects of ICT, nothing positive can really be said in regards to their effect on the environment. We have to mine minerals to build them and these minerals will over time and by necessity become more scarce and expensive to acquire. Besides mineral extraction, production and disposal furthermore have negative effects on citizens and ecosystems who often ”happen” to be located in poorer parts of the world. One of the places where we ship our e-waste (old computers, routers, smartphones etc.) to have them disassembled and recycled is Pakistan. This all is pretty bad, but, are there any alternatives?¶

The second part of the lecture provides an overview of obsolescence and of how Sustainable HCI research can address this, focusing on the interaction between user and device in the design of consumer electronics. ¶

About: Daniel Pargman is Assistant Professor in Media Technology at the KTH School of Computer Science and Communication. His research interests concerns social media, virtual communities, Internet culture, sustainability and resource challenges. He is a member of the steering committee for the KTH VINN Excellence Center for Sustainable Communications (CESC).¶

Literature:¶

First order effects:¶

Bardi, Ugo. "The universal mining machine." The Oil Drum (2008).¶

Cramer, B. W. (2012). Man’s need or man’s greed: The human rights ramifications of green ICTs. Telematics and Informatics, 29(4), 337-347.¶

Raghavan, B. and Hasan, S. (2012). "Macroscopically sustainable networking: An Internet quine". International Computer Science Institute report, TR-12-010.¶

Obsolescence:¶

Remy and Huang: Addressing the Obsolescence of End-User Devices: Approaches from the Field of Sustainable HCI. In: Hilty, L.M., Aebischer, B. (eds.) ICT Innovations for Sustainability. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 310, Springer International Publishing (2014, in press)¶

Tisdag 6 oktober 2015 kl 135:00 - 157:00

FöreläsningLecture 13

How participatory culture enables and empowers people to become part of movements Guest Lecturer: Mattias Jägerskog, founder of the non-profit ridesharing movement Skjutsgruppen and #RidesharingDay, OuiShare connector Sweden Content: There is hope! More and more people feel empowered to do actual change in society and in their personal lives. In this lecture we will use the non-profit ridesharing movement Skjutsgruppen and the growing Collaborative Economy as an example and a case study of "participatory culture".¶

About: Mattias Jägerskog is what the collaborative movement calls an "enabler". He helps out with spreading the Collaborative Economy through both practical action, philosophy and ideology.¶

Literature:Youtube: Challenges of the Shared Economy - Yochai Benkler ¶

Lecture: "We're sitting shoulder to shoulder"¶

The Collaborative Economy In Europe: http://jonathanwichmann.com/2015/07/19/the-collaborative-economy-in-europe/¶

Silberman, S., (2015) Information Systems for the Age of Consequences, First Monday Vol. 20, No. 3¶

Optional reading:http://magazine.ouishare.net/Christle, J., (2013) Sustainable Web Design, A List Apart, No. 383Peters, D., (2013) The Web Runs on Electricity and We’re Running Out, A List Apart, No. 383¶

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Tiorsdag 157 september 2015 kl 150:00 - 172:00

TorsFredag 178 september 2015 kl 108:00 - 120:00

B22, B23L43, L44

FreTorsdag 165 oktober 2015 kl 108:00 - 120:00

Q2V3

TorsFredag 156 oktober 2015 kl 108:00 - 102:00

V3Q2

TisFredag 136 oktober 2015 kl 160:00 - 182:00

FreTorsdag 165 oktober 2015 kl 108:00 - 120:00

L41, L42D32, D33

FreOnsdag 164 oktober 2015 kl 108:00 - 102:00

L412, L423

Tiorsdag 68 oktober 2015 kl 1508:00 - 170:00

L43, L44E34, E53