Doing Ethics in Smart City Tech – The good, the bad and the acceptable
Events
We are glad to have teamed up with ThingsCon to organize a Salon on Doing Ethics at VONK Rotterdam, the innovation center of the municipality of Rotterdam.
In the Human Values for Smarter Cities project, the central focus lies on what we can do to do ethics, to facilitate this process, and when to do this in the life cycle of a specific technology, preferably with various stakeholders. In this ThingsCon Salon we zoom in on methods that facilitate participants to uncover, discuss and weigh negative and positive aspects of smart city technology. We explore how these methods work, but also what participants learn in these processes. We share findings and learnings from the research project and invite practitioners with experience in applying ethics in their design practice. In a panel, we discuss with all speakers and participants ‘doing ethics’ in the way presented and how they relate to ethical values.
The event will feature two great speakers that use ethics in daily practices, short pitches by researchers from the Human Values for Smarter Cities project, and an insightful workshop on designing rules into policy. The program will be divided into two parts:
- 16:00-18:00: Workshop – Agonistic Machine Vision Development
- 19:00-21:30: Evening lectures and panel
The outline of the program and RSVP are below. We look forward to seeing you in Rotterdam!