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New conference paper discusses the challenges of developing digital tools for complex socio-spacial realities
Hasib Ahsan has recently had his conference paper titled “Digital ‘Theory of Change’ in Practice: Design and Socio-spatial Realities in Climate Displaced Riverine Communities” published as a book chapter in the Springer Nature conference proceedings. The research and the fieldwork for the paper was partly supported by the DecouplingIT project based at the IT University of Copenhagen and funded by the European…
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Introducing visiting Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher: Felipe Mammoli explores digital technologies in ecological restoration in Brazil
Felipe Mammoli is a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, and he will be working on a project about new digital technologies in forest restoration, particularly in the Brazilian Amazon. His project is titled “Restoring the Amazon Forest at Scale: An ethnography of digital technologies in ecological restoration in…
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New publication on the complications of deploying technological solutions to capitalist problems
Steffen Dalsgaard and Hasib Ahsan have had their paper, “Entanglements of Sustainability in Dhaka: The Complications of Deploying Technological Solutions to Capitalist Problems,” published in Kulturanthropologie Notizen. The paper is written based on ethnographic fieldwork that Steffen and Hasib conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2023. “We argue that technological solutions are never simply technical. They…
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Looking back at the DecouplingIT advisory board meeting
From August 17th-20th, 2026 we were very honored to be able to welcome and host three Decoupling IT advisors, Emeritus Professor at Cambridge University Dame Marilyn Strathern, Professor at UCLA Christopher Kelty, former Associate Professor at the IT-University of Copenhagen Ingmar Lippert. Among other things, the visit was intended to foster exchanges of ideas, discussions…
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Introducing visiting PhD candidate: Kei Kato explores the shipping industry’s pursuit of its twin transition
Read more about Kei and his work: IT-University of Copenhagen page – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign page – LinkedIn References Cowen, D. (2014). The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. University of Minnesota Press. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. (2024). Review of maritime transport 2024: Navigating maritime chokepoints. United Nations.…
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This work is supported by ERC grant 101045473. DOI: 10.3030/101045473