Labitat, Copenhagen, October 17: Social studies of citizen science and hacker culture

While in October Copenhagen hosts the EASST/4S Conference (Society for Social studies of Science), the hackerspace Labitat organizes a small informal networking event on Wednesday 17 about the hacking and the citizen science.

The event involves hackers, makers, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, social and natural scientists, and policy-makers that come and talk about projects, be inspired, and have conversations together.

Hackers and DIY-bio meets social scientists.

Labitat Wednesday 17th of Oct 2012 18:00.

Some of the confirmed mini-talk speakers:

“HACKERS”:

Rüdiger Trojok – DIY-biologist

“Thoughts on current DIY-BIO activities in Germany & Building a genegun”

Signout and Flummer (Labitat Hackers)

“US-Hackerspace road trip. 16 spaces in 14 days. Differences, thoughts and a Danish perspective”

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SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Louise Whiteley – Assistant Professor – Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

“From Kitchen Sink to Museum: Public Engagement with Synthetic Biology and Open Science”

Morgan Meyer – Ecole des Mines de Paris.

“Domesticating and tinkering with biology – a material culture of DIY biology”

Paolo Magaudda – University of Padua (Italy)

“How hacking spreads in the society: iOS Jailbreaking as an alternative consumption of technology”

Se the details here: https://labitat.dk/wiki/Citizen_science_event. An online pre-registration is requested (both for presenters and audience).