"I lived in West Germany as an exchange student in a household where the father is Syrian and pro-Middle East; and the mother’s family members were anti-fascist activists in WWII Germany. I was 18 years old and I was living in the U.S. occupied section of West Germany during the Reagan-...Read more
In the 2018 Sydney Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun curated a special exhibition “STS Across Borders” in line with the conference theme, “TRANSnational STS.” In the 2019 New Orleans Conference of the society, the curators extended and...Read more
Here you find a translation of an interview that I conducted in German with an employee of the municipal GmbH Economic Development in order to find out more about data processing and sharing practices as well as about the use cases for pedestrian counters. It is slightly shortened for reasons of...Read more
"The biggest thing that attracts me is the incredible tenacity of people to manage and surmount their incredibly challenging circumstances. You don’t find that in many parts of the world. I also love Lagos in spite of all the wahala. The fact that people don’t just survive but thrive here in...Read more
1st Artifact: Excerpts from my in-depth interview with Eda
This document consists of excerpts from the first preliminary in-depth interview that I made. The research participant is a Turkish woman living in Germany, who had her eggs frozen four years ago. The main topics...Read more
Futurefarmers Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine interview Abena Dove Osseo-Asare to understand the limits of knowledge and how researchers are moving towards these "unknown" territories as part of a multifaceted research project inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's film, Powers...Read more