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Collaboration

Our connections reach beyond ITU and beyond academia. We are collaborating with other scholars and students, as well as organizations, civil society actors and artists on matters of technology in various creative ways.

The Lab offers a diverse range of expertise and wilful bewilderment. We focus on creative ways of asking difficult questions and embracing complexity through digital methodologies, network analysis, data visualization, ethnographic fieldwork, participatory observation, design, and storytelling.

If you have an idea for a potential collaborative engagement or would like us to contribute to an event, we ask that you please read through the following collaboration formats. Feel free to suggest something that goes beyond what we have described here, however, in order for us to have the most meaningful conversation around collaboration, we ask that you be as specific as possible.

Collaboration formats

The following suggestions are based on previous collaborations, but is not an exhaustive list—

• Informal talk in the lab — This could include setting up some time for meetings with various colleagues from the lab. 
• A talk in our Technologies in Practice research group weekly salon — This is a smaller seminar size room audience, where we discuss ongoing topics of interest, hear presentations from visitors about projects, articles, works-in-progress, etc.
• A workshop in ETHOS — This could be ETHOS-only, but we usually invite relevant colleagues from outside the lab for things like this. This could also include our Junior Researchers. A workshop could take the form of something that engages with your methods, and/or invites us into some of the methodological or transdisciplinary questions you are working through. 
• A public talk/lecture — In a lecture hall, open to all ITU staff and students. For this we need to plan a bit more so we can ensure timely promotion and booking of a lecture hall. 
• A public workshop — Open to all ITU staff and students.

ETHOS theme 2023 

Each year ETHOS Lab chooses a thematic focus. In 2023 that theme is Shifting Inevitabilities. With what we see as a time of shifting inevitabilities, we hope to explore what’s possible for researching society with other platforms with other attributes and other tools. ChatGPT has already made us implode our exams from 2022 and ask what it means to learn with and write with bots. The ongoing climate and energy crises mean that we are continuing to consider the inevitability of our always-on, ever-connected digital working lives. We continue to explore the world of permacomputing through our solar server and individual efforts to work more offline in ways that are both environmentally and mentally sustainable. We also hope the theme will allow for exploration of the relationship between data and bodies to consider the corporeal and subjective experiences of tectonic shifts in our technological commons.  

If you see any links with your work and this theme, we could also work together to organise something to go along with the theme.  

For collaboration proposals or inquiries, please contact: ethos@itu.dk