Prof. Suzana Alpsancar, head of our workgroup "Philosophy and Ethics of Scientific and Technological Cultures", is organising an international workshop together with the VDI and the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG) at the Deutsches Museum in Munich from 18-19 June 2026. The workshop is entitled “...never neutral': Practices, concepts and methods of evaluating technology over the last 50 years” and is being held as part of the project "Future needs origin - The VDI since the 1970s".
The aim is to analyse the practices and methods used by engineers, companies and stakeholders to evaluate technologies. In addition, the relationship of this evaluation to institutionalised, political forms of technology evaluation will be discussed - both in the past and in the present.
Further information can be found here.