Call for Abstracts: "Technology assessment and future warfare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".

The Special topic of issue 35/1 (2026) is guest edited by
Prof. Dr. Karsten Weber and Prof. Dr. Markus Bresinsky, OTH Regensburg, DE

Submit your abstract by: 11 April 2025

Further information:
https://lnkd.in/g7gxBh2V

#FutureWarfare, #GameTheory, #NuclearWar, #CyberWeapons, #AutonomousWeapons, #DualUse
#Zeitenwende, #TechnologyAssessment, #TAJournal

oekom Verlag
@ITAS_KIT

Wer macht die Materialwende?

Eine Wende hin zur Kreislaufwirtschaft ist mit einer langfristigen Umstellung aller Abläufe im Bauwesen verbunden. Entscheidungen, die den Ressourcenverbrauch und die Klimawirkung des Bauens minimieren, könnten dagegen sofort getroffen werden – insbesondere wenn es darum geht, den Gebäudebestand möglichst lange in Nutzung zu halten oder Leerstand zu revitalisieren.

Unsere Autor:innen Johannes Warda, Georg Schiller, Barbara Ditze und Robert Knippschild sind überzeugt: Die praktische Expertise dafür findet sich in der Denkmalpflege.
Bislang als Nischenbereich auf einen exklusiven Bestand beschränkt, können denkmalpflegerische Prinzipien als Bestandteil zirkulären Bauens für alle Bauaufgabenfruchtbar gemacht werden.

Den Artikel "Wer macht die Materialwende?: Zur Rolle von zirkulären und denkmalpflegerischen Ansätzen für die Transformation des Bauwesens" gibt es #openaccess hier:
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7135

#materialtransition #buildingmaterials
#sustainableconstruction #technologyassessment #InstitutfürTechnikfolgenabschätzungundSystemanalyse #ITAS #oekomverlag

Building the future: Toward a sustainable material transition in architecture and construction

Today, material consumption in the construction sector is responsible for 50% of EU-wide resource consumption.

Against this backdrop, our current Special topic, edited by Cordula Kropp and Simon Aicher, examines the research and use of sustainable building materials.

Read their Special topic introduction:
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7149

Das TATuP-Heft 33/3 ist eingetroffen!
https://www.tatup.de

Material transitions in architecture and construction: Social implications, appropriation, and outcomes for sustainability
(Materialwenden in Architektur und Bauwesen: Gesellschaftliche Implikationen, Aneignungsprozesse und Nachhaltigkeitswirkungen)

Wissenschaftliche Lektüre für die Feiertage:
#OpenAccess -Zeitschrift online und kostenfrei als Print-Exemplar:
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/subscriptionStatic

@TATuP @ITAS_KIT
#technologyassessment

Out now: TATuP's winter issue in 2024 on "Material transitions in architecture and construction: Social implications, appropriation, and outcomes for sustainability".

Find all articles #openaccess at https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/182

Many thanks to our special topic editors Cordula Kropp and Simon Aicher & to all the authors!

#technologyassessment #materialtransition #buildingmaterials #buildingstandards #sustainableconstruction @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT

Unser aktueller Newsletter ist da:

Social-Scoring-Systeme: Was zählt? - Einblick in die Studie

Bonuspunkte für staatsbürgerliches Wohlverhalten - Interview mit Lorenz Hilty

Sprachmodelle und Kompetenzverschiebungen - Neue Studienausschreibung

Wie reimt sich KI auf Demokratie?

Was uns KI und Co. über menschliche Kreativität lehren - Save the date «Intelligente Kunst»: 26. Februar 2025, 18.00 Uhr, HeK Basel

https://www.ta-swiss.ch/app/uploads/2024/12/de-Newsletter-3_24-TA-SWISS_web.pdf

Can we imagine socio-technical innovation that is ‘deeply sustainable’?

Check out our #call4abstracts for Special topic of issue 34/3 (2025) "In search of deeply sustainable technologies: Beyond extractivism, exploitation and exclusion":
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/announcement/view/61

Submit your Abstract by 10 January 2025!

We are happy to host Anne Bergmans as the first ITAS Senior Fellow @KIT_Karlsruhe!

The professor from the University of Antwerpen will work with us on issues related to the sustainable use of the #deepsubsurface, e.g. for geothermal energy production, nuclear waste disposal, or carbon dioxide storage.

More information:
https://itas.kit.edu/english/2024_022.php

Technologies and terrorist innovation:
In our current issue Don Rassler (Combating Terrorism Center United States at West Point) and Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Royal Military College of Canada) posit that ‘disruptive,’ ‘dual-use,’ ‘democratized,’ and ‘diffused’ technologies are particularly susceptible to misuse by terrorists.

Read the full article #openaccess:
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.33.2.22

#technologyassessment
#terroristinnovation
#emergingtechnologies
#additivemanufacturing

"How can we shape immersive digital worlds democratically?"

TATuP interview with @MatthiasQuent one of the best-known researchers on right-wing extremism in Germany conducted by Georg Plattner (@ITAS_KIT).

https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.33.2.62

We are happy to host Mine Güngörmüşler, one of the @KIT_Karlsruhe's International Excellence Fellows in 2024.

At ITAS, the bioengineer from Izmir University of Economics assesses the environmental impact of a novel #GreenHydrogen production method, drawing on the life cycle assessment (LCA) expertise of her colleagues at the ITAS.

https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/2024_015.php

Call for abstracts: "Beyond short-termism: Strategies and perspectives for the long-term governance of socio-technical change"

Deadline: 12 August 2024
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/announcement/view/59

#LongTermGovernance #SocioTechnicalChange #TechnologyAssessment
@ITAS_KIT

Out now: TATuP's summer issue in 2024 on “Malevolent creativity and #civilsecurity"!

Find all articles #openaccess at https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/180 published at oekom verlag

#technologyassessment #extremism #radicalization
@KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT

TA researcher Karen Kastenhofer has been at the ITA since 2007 and has succeeded Walter Peissl as Deputy Director since June 2024. The entire team is looking forward to many exciting years! #researchimpacts #technologyassessment
#OEAW

How can artists be involved in the development of #QuantumTechnologies?
Panel discussion @republica 2024 with Adrian Schmidt (ITAS), Bianca Kennedy, Nadia J. Armstrong, Swan Collective, and Gesche Joost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRPYrUFNiTY

#StudioQuantum #TechnologyAssessment
Alicja Hoppel, Studio Quantum and the Goethe-Institut Irland

AI and access to justice: In their paper Brandon Long and Amitabha Palmer show how AI legal advisors can reduce barriers to justice.

Read the full article #OpenAccess:
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.33.1.21

Are you an expert in a specific area of #technologyassessment and would like to guest edit a special topic in TATuP?

Then you might want to submit for our call for Special topic guest editors:

Deadline: 30 June 2024
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/announcement/view/58

What are German judges’ perspectives on AI?

For their research article Anna-Katharina Dhungel and Moreen Heine from the Universität zu Luebeck conducted 20 in-depth interviews.

Read the whole article #openaccess :
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.33.1.14

#technologyassessment @oekomverlag

#Callforabstracts: We're looking for your submissions for the 2024 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology @KIT_Karlsruhe!

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2024
https://www.fpet2024.org/26.php