CRISES: Reimagining, Redesigning, and Rebuilding the Human-Technology Relationship Workshop 3

You are invited to join us for the third of three kick-off events to plan an NSF CRISES research center. Our aim is to envision a center focused on the opportunity to leverage socio-technological transformation to help communities address multiple overlapping and reinforcing forms of social, environmental, and racial inequality, injustice, and crisis.

Panelists:

Erik Johnston, Professor, School of Complex Adaptive Systems

Dr. Erik Johnston is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School for Complex Adaptive Systems. He is the co-director of the Center for Smart Cities and Regions. His research in smart cities and regions integrates open governance and policy informatics applications of public interest technology to serve all communities, including participation from traditionally underserved populations. His research in opening governance explores how our governance systems can evolve to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of the public to have many pathways to share their talents, data, expertise, and energy to improve their communities. His research in policy informatics is the study of how computational and communication technology is leveraged to specifically understand and address complex public policy and administration problems and realize innovations in governance insights, processes, and institutional design.

Patricia Solis, Executive Director, Knowledge Exchange for Resilience

Patricia Solís, PhD, is Executive Director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at Arizona State University, a campus-wide effort to link multi-sector community needs with research innovations in building community resilience, funded by a grant from the Virginia G. Piper Trust. She worked with the US Census Bureau on a new data product, Community Resilience Estimates for Heat, co-invented a patent-pending tool for knowledge alliances, and holds trademarks for her creative scholarly works. Her research focuses on sustainability, resilience, applications of geospatial technologies as well as formal, informal and public educational activities. Her work includes engagement to support the Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency, especially related to extreme heat and strategic planning. She is Associate Research Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. She is Co-Founder and Director of YouthMappers. Prior to joining ASU, she was Co-Director of the Center for Geospatial Technology at Texas Tech.

Sarah Bassett, Professor of Practice, School of Public Affairs

Sarah M. Bassett is a Professor of Practice in the School of Public Affairs, Emergency Management & Homeland Security program at Arizona State University and co-Director of the Resilient Visions (RV) CoLab. She specializes in a transdisciplinary planning practice that addresses the social and spatial effects of natural and technological hazards. Core to this is working in partnership with communities on how to adapt and manage their risk from these uncertain conditions in an effort to support a more humane urbanism. This work combines place-based practices, spatial computing, and policy advocacy to connect local needs with long-range planning and policy change.

Rashad Shabazz, Professor of Practice, School of Public Affairs

Rashad Shabazz's academic expertise combines human geography, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. His research explores how race, gender, and cultural production are informed by geography. His first book, Spatializing Blackness (University of Illinois Press, 2015), examines how carceral power within the geographies of Black Chicagoans shaped urban planning, housing policy, architecture, policing practices, gang formation, high incarceration rates, masculinity, and health. He recently completed his second book, Biography of a Sound—Prince, Place, and the Hidden History of the Minneapolis Sound. The book uncovers Minneapolis Sound's development from its mid-19th century birth to the release of Prince's magnum opus, Sign O' The Times, in 1987. Dr. Shabazz is working on a book about race and real estate in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Key Question: How can we develop and test methods for transitioning from existing to future techno-human configurations in ways that meet diverse transition criteria (e.g., pace of change, transition justice, transition smoothness, cost of change, etc.) and lead to improved techno-human futures?

This workshop will explore potential methods for transitioning from existing, inequitable, socio-technological systems (STS) to future, more equitable designs, and navigate the social, technological, and environmental uncertainties and complexities such transitions pose. It will center on the question: how can we develop and test methods for transitioning from existing to future techno-human configurations in ways that meet diverse transition criteria (e.g., pace of change, transition justice, transition smoothness, cost of change, etc.) and lead to improved techno-human futures? We will explore innovative methods for transition planning and implementation that integrate attention to social and technological processes and facilitate shared understandings among stakeholders. Participants will identify informatics practices for real-time information sharing, envision inclusive technological innovation strategies, and create learning platforms to empower communities. By building a collaborative network, we aim to advance research for equity, justice, and security in STS transformation.