Opening Up Technologies to the Social: Between Interdisciplinarity and Citizen Participation

Susana Nascimento is a postdoctoral researcher at CIES-IUL (FCT research grant) and co-director of VitruviusFabLab-IUL, both at ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon, and associate researcher at CETCOPRA at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Université Paris 1 and a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL. She works and publishes mainly in Science, Technology and Society, with focus on Social Methods for Technology Development, Interdisciplinarity and Transdiciplinarity, Public Engagement, and Environmental and Social Sustainability.

Alexandre Pólvora is a researcher at CETCOPRA of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and associate researcher at VitruviusFabLab-IUL in ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute. His core research areas are Philosophy of Technology and Sociology of Everyday Life, with interest in Practical Interdisciplinarity between Social and Technical Fields, Open Science and Technology Models, Modern Material Cultures, Waste and Recycling, Phenomenology and Ethnography. He is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Université Paris 1 and in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL.