{"id":130,"date":"2018-10-31T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/inda\/?p=130"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:59:03","slug":"thingscon-salon-copenhagen-techfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/virteuproject\/2018\/10\/31\/thingscon-salon-copenhagen-techfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"ThingsCon Salon Copenhagen – Techfestival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Techfestival<\/a>\u2019s mission is to put on a truly participatory festival of and for technology, and 2017 was Techfestival\u2019s first edition. For five days in September, international guests, local speakers, facilitators, and volunteers joined 16,000 guests in Vesterbr\u00f8\u2019s \u201cmeatpacking district\u201d for a vast array of talks, demostrations and debate. It was (according to one of the speakers VIRT-EU invited to speak on Ethical and Responsible IoT) the coolest venue to ever present academically derive ideas!<\/p>\n

VIRT-EU co-hosted our Ethical and Responsible IoT event in collaboration with ThingsCon<\/a>, Europe\u2019s leading conference about the future of hardware, connected devices, and IoT. We designed the evening as a \u201cMeetup\u201d which would bring designers, developers, legal professionals, and members of the curious public into dialogue for an evening. As our event\u2019s tagline put it, \u2018such reflections are crucial for ensuring a future we actually want to live in\u2019.<\/p>\n

Irina Shklovski, VIRT-EU\u2019s PI opened the evening by sharing some of the goals and methods of the VIRT-EU research project and thanking everyone for \"\"\"\"joining us. It was a full room, with over 60 people lined up on the bright red benches. Irina pointed everyone to the cards we had scattered around and asked that folks take a look before the presentations kicked off: we wanted people to be thinking up questions as they listened, and noting them down for the discussion session. Lachlan Urquhart (@mooseabyte) was our first invited speaker. Lachlan is a Research Fellow in Information Tech Law at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute in Nottingham, UK. His talk \u2013 coming from the intersection of IT Law, HCI and digital ethics \u2013 accessibly covered topics of IT law and governance he writes about under the heading of \u2018regulation by design\u2019 (see publications and reflections on his visit here). This connected perfectly with Kajsa Westman\u2019s talk from a design perspective. Kajsa, a UX designer at Topp, reflected on the designer\u2019s role in the development process as a
\n\u2018gatekeeper between bad ideas and final products\u2019. How far do these responsibilities extend?: \u2018just because it passed through our studio, does not mean we can wash our hands of it\u2019, she argued. Salon participants were asked if they had ever quit a job on ethical grounds. How many of them would just \u2018shut up and get the job done\u2019?<\/p>\n

We had a break so participants could get drinks and write on their postcards. The discussion session, lasting more than an hour, was filled with deeply felt
\nconcerns. Participants posed questions to the speakers, but also entered into a lively disagreement with each other, pointing to the role of legislation, work practices, and what it means to live a logged life. Internet of Things technologies reach deeply into our lives. As one of the participants argued: \u201cIt needs to be an internet of things AND humans, so we can talk about these concerns\u201d. The ThingsCon Salon was certainly a space where these dialogues began. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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