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SUMMARY:Innovation in Conditions of Stagnation: Thinking from the Fourth 
 Quadrant
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Semin
 ar Series 20/21\, webinar hosted by guest speaker\, Dr Stevienna de Sail
 le\, Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman
 ) at the University of Sheffield.\n\nRegister to attend via Eventbrite: 
 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-institute-of-innovation-resear
 ch-dr-stevienna-de-saille-tickets-152512331489\n\nInnovation in Conditio
 ns of Stagnation: Thinking from the Fourth Quadrant\n\nAbstract: \n\nRes
 ponsible innovation (RI) was originally conceived as a way of shaping in
 novation towards filling real social needs\, rather than towards merely 
 increasing profits and GDP. However\, the process of embedding of RI int
 o science funding policies\, such as Responsible Research and Innovation
  in the EU\, has instead strengthened the very same growth paradigms it 
 was meant to challenge. Initially presented as a matrix which contrasts 
 responsibility with irresponsibility and innovation with stagnation\, th
 e quadrant representing responsible innovation has been much discussed\,
  while that of responsible stagnation has gone largely unexplored. Takin
 g this ‘fourth quadrant’ seriously gives us a means to question the poli
 tical economy in which RI is embedded and to consider innovation in its 
 broadest sense\, including non-market oriented goods and services which 
 provide social and environmental benefits but do not contribute to GDP. 
 In this talk\, I will examine how incorporating this fourth quadrant -- 
 as a necessary component of RI\, not an argument against it -- can facil
 itate truly novel approaches to crucial questions about maintaining soci
 al progress within our planetary limitations.\n\nStevienna de Saille is 
 a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) a
 t the University of Sheffield\, where she studies the intersection of sc
 ience\, technology and society. She has published widely on topics rangi
 ng from feminist movements to responsible innovation\, with a concentrat
 ion on reprogenetics and robotics as technological fields. Stevie is als
 o the author of two monographs\, the most recent of which is Responsibil
 ity Beyond Growth: A case for responsible stagnation\, published last su
 mmer by Bristol University Press and written as a collaboration between 
 seven STS and economics scholars\, all members of the Fourth Quadrant Re
 search Network (of which she is a founder). She has been a co-chair of t
 he Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS)\, a co-coordinator 
 of the Science and Technology Study Group of the British Sociological As
 sociation (BSA)\, and is presently on the Editorial Advisory Panel for S
 cience as Culture. Stevie is also a certified facilitator in LEGO® Serio
 us Play® methodology\, which she uses for her own research and teaching 
 as well as for strategic consultation on embedding RRI in science and en
 gineering projects. She is presently using this methodology to research 
 imaginaries of robotic care as Co-I on a UKRI/Trustworthy Autonomous Sys
 tems pump-priming project.\n
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LOCATION:Zoom\, register to attend.
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