2022-04-08 Daniel Pargman

Academic mobility - Who gets to fly? More info will be posted here before the seminar.¶ ¶ To read:¶ Pargman, D. et al. (2022) ‘Who Gets to Fly?’, in Björkdahl, K. and Franco Duharte, A.S. (eds) Academic Flying and the Means of Communication. Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 133–158.¶ Academic flying constitutes a large part of KTH's total carbon emissions. We need to reduce our flying if we are to reach our own climate targets, but how? To start with; who at KTH flies when, where and why? And how can we reduce ”unnecessary” flying? Welcome to a seminar about academic flying and the (many and varied) challenges of reducing academic flying.¶

To read:¶

Pargman, D. et al. (2022) ‘Who Gets to Fly?’, in Björkdahl, K. and Franco Duharte, A.S. (eds) Academic Flying and the Means of Communication. Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 133–158.¶

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Daniel Pargman is an associate professor in media technology with a specialization in sustainability at KTH/EECS/HCT/MID. His research and teaching is situated in the intersection of computing and sustainability. The two overarching questions that guide his research are:1) What happens when exponential developments in computing bump into sustainability-related limitations (for example in terms of the material footprint of ICT or the CO2 emissions from manufacturing and use)?2) What is the role of ICT in the transformation to a more sustainable society (where people can live good lives within planetary boundaries?