Socio-Technical Futures Shaping The Present: Empirical Examples And Analytical Challenges

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​The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Socio‐Technical Futures Shaping the Present (Andreas Lösch, Armin Grunwald, Martin Meister, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Shaping the Present by Creating and Reflecting Futures (Armin Grunwald)....Pages 17-35 Prototype Scenarios as Negotiation Arenas Between the Present and Imagined Futures. Representation and Negotiation Power in Constructing New Socio-Technical Configurations (Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Martin Meister)....Pages 37-65 Visionary Practices Shaping Power Constellations (Andreas Lösch, Reinhard Heil, Christoph Schneider)....Pages 67-88 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 Globalizing Technologies: Geopolitical Innovation in the U.S. Bioeconomy (Tess Doezema)....Pages 91-110 The Institutionalization of an Envisioned Future. Sensemaking and Field Formation in the Case of “Industrie 4.0” in Germany (Uli Meyer)....Pages 111-138 Between Past, Present, and Future—The Temporality of Sociotechnical Futures in India’s GM Crops Debate (Andreas Mitzschke)....Pages 139-160 Smart City Experimentation in Urban Mobility—Exploring the Politics of Futuring in Hamburg (Philipp Späth, Jörg Knieling)....Pages 161-185 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Reflexive Hermeneutics Against Closing Down Technology Assessment Discourses: The Case of Synthetic Biology (Go Yoshizawa)....Pages 189-210 In vitro Meat: The Normative Power of a Vision in the Innovation and Transformation Process (Inge Böhm, Silvia Woll, Arianna Ferrari)....Pages 211-229 The Naming of the Beast. Scrutinizing Concepts of Technology Rich Futures (Jan Nolin, Gustaf Nelhans, Nasrine Olson)....Pages 231-254 Intervening Through Futures for Sustainable Presents: Scenarios, Sustainability, and Responsible Research and Innovation (Lauren Withycombe Keeler, Michael J. Bernstein, Cynthia Selin)....Pages 255-282 Front Matter ....Pages 283-283 Technology Assessment of Socio-Technical Futures—A Discussion Paper (Andreas Lösch, Knud Böhle, Christopher Coenen, Paulina Dobroc, Reinhard Heil, Armin Grunwald et al.)....Pages 285-308