Public engagement is necessary to improve effectiveness of a project or policy on science and technology or regional development. It is important for significant public engagement to address the following issues including spatial design, process, facilitation and management. 1. Engage with local place and community Grasp the context of local place and community where people… Continue reading Communication Training Manual for Positive Engagement
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The crown and citizens
The world is in an acute crisis. All the citizens on this planet are now fighting against coronavirus and no one can foresee when and how the disaster comes to the end. Yet, a large number of civic tech communities have collected data on their own and launched new websites and apps to map and… Continue reading The crown and citizens
Ethical, legal, and social issues to be considered in emerging life sciences
On ethical, legal, and social issues of emerging life sciences, it is important to comply with codes of conduct fitted in the recent socio-technical context reflecting Japanese experiences, develop procedures for the research and innovation governance, and promote public engagement for opening up future possibilities. It is also necessary in the governance to provide new… Continue reading Ethical, legal, and social issues to be considered in emerging life sciences
Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop on Citizen Science
Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop: Bridging STS Research on Citizen Science between Belgium and Japan The bilateral Japanese-Belgian research project ‘After and Beyond Fukushima: Probing the Role and Potential of Citizen Science in Nuclear Science and Technology Governance in Japan and Belgium‘ (2017-19) was led by social scientists based at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), KU… Continue reading Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop on Citizen Science
Who’s sure about technologies and futures?
We know we are ambiguous. So often we change our minds, forget what we said, and don’t walk the talk. Even worse, we sit on the fence, put things on others, and leave them in limbo. We should’ve known that our rationality is limited since before Herbert Simon. Yet, few have doubted thus far that… Continue reading Who’s sure about technologies and futures?
Workshop on the Ethics of Molecular Robotics
Molecular robotics is an emerging discipline that aims to produce artificial molecular systems that can adapt to change in the environment, self-organize and evolve. By co-designing possible and desirable futures and co-creating the Ethical Principles, molecular roboticists in Japan have been collaborating with social scientists and stakeholders to participate in the governance of technology development… Continue reading Workshop on the Ethics of Molecular Robotics
Workshop on Opening Ethics Research and Research Governance
Open science and innovation comes to the fore in Horizon Europe by assimilating (or dissolving) thematic elements of RRI, but it remains unclear what is meant by ‘openness’ and how the existing ‘Science with and for Society’ (SwafS) concepts and practices (e.g. RRI, ELSI, TA) are related to such open approaches. One of the practical… Continue reading Workshop on Opening Ethics Research and Research Governance
IASDR 2019
We were unable to attend and present at IASDR (International Association of Socities of Design Research) Conference 2019 held on September 2-5, but the research paper is available here. Go Yoshizawa & Jusaku Minari, Mobilising publics: governing biodesign technologies, IASDR 2019. Abstract. Biodesign technologies enable us to design a living system and observe how that system and its environment… Continue reading IASDR 2019
EAD2019 – European Academy of Design
EAD2019 is the 13th European Academy of Design (EAD) International Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, 10-12 April 2019. As the conference title ‘Running with Scissors’ shows, the discipline of design has been evolving and changing quite rapidly in recent years. All the keynote lecturers, Craig Vogel, Ingrid van der Wacht and Ravi Naidoo in particular, were very enthusiastic about and proud… Continue reading EAD2019 – European Academy of Design
Recent activities (Feb – Mar 2019)
6 Feburary 2019: Attended the Norway-Japan alumni and researcher gathering fiscal year 2018 at Research Council of Norway (RCN) and presented “Public engagement for what? A light in the darkness”. Following this event, the 3rd Norway-Japan Academic Network Seminar was organised in the same location. The JSPS alumni club Norway is still under the formalisation process, but will create… Continue reading Recent activities (Feb – Mar 2019)
Recommendations for policy and practice of citizen science for radioactive measurement in Japan
Go Yoshizawa & Nozomi Mizushima, Brussels, 27 February 2019 Management of Citizen Science OrganisationsCitizen science (CS) practitioners and supporters should facilitate fair and inclusive management of CS organisations, with special attention to gender and inter-generational issues. Evidence-informed ApproachCS practitioners and supporters should analyse, archive and publicly share their evidence-informed (explicit or tacit) knowledge of radioactive… Continue reading Recommendations for policy and practice of citizen science for radioactive measurement in Japan
We have never been in movies
Hypothetical scenarios of a scientist in a movie are now in vogue on Twitter, many of which entertain us but highlight how stereotypically and erroneously screenwriters portray physicians and scientists in the media (Neill 2019). Although these portrayals appear still major in Hollywood and others, Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) in the US and Centrum Media & Gezondheid in… Continue reading We have never been in movies
Designing futures and publics
World Expo 2025 is to be hosted by Osaka again. A good news? Well, rather amazing to see how the government and industry is plainly dreaming to resurrect the industrial age dinosaur for the 21th Century. It’s true that this old modern idea was warmly welcomed by the Japanese society in 1970, when Osaka hosted… Continue reading Designing futures and publics
Journey from darkness into light
This is a hot story of where the pepper grows. My research journey now starts from PE – not ‘public engagement’, but ‘positive environment’. Environment is critical for people to think and talk of any issues, let alone science. Well, science museums, public labs and lecture halls are absolutely comfortable if you are science-philia, but… Continue reading Journey from darkness into light
A grain of pepper – about the project
There is a common saying in Japan that “a grain of pepper may be tiny but it still is sharp on the tongue” – Good things come in small packages. As one of the packages, this EU-funded two-year project (Sep 2018-Aug 2020) is called PEPPER – Positive Environment in Public Participation and Engagement for Responsible… Continue reading A grain of pepper – about the project