Participating in innovation,
innovating in participation
A conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation
Mines ParisTech, Paris, 3-4 December 2015Call for Proposals
Conference theme
The call for new forms of participation has become common in the public sphere, promising renewed forms of public engagement, more efficient industrial processes, and more democratic decision-making processes. Technological innovation is a particular case when considering current discourses of participation. It is both problematised as needing more developed or open forms of participation, and proposed as a mean for experimenting with original participatory formats, for example, in: crowdfunding, citizen science, amateur reviewing/rating, online communities for public debates, consumer participation in (participatory) product design.
- How should the call for new forms of participation in technological innovation be understood, in terms of both public policy and the private sector?
- How are social and economic organisations thereby shaped?
- What does this mean for new processes of innovation?
The second i3 conference “Participating in innovation, innovating in participation” aims to launch and deepen interdisciplinary discussion on the forms and effects of modes of participation in technological innovation. The principal issues that the conference will address are as follows:
1. Practices and sociotechnical devices
Sociotechnical devices are crucial resources for supporting involvement and participation as interactional accomplishments. These devices comprise participatory instruments such as public dialogue mechanisms, web platforms through which users interact with the content they are interested in, or user-oriented experiments undertaken by private companies.
- On what bases can these sociotechnical devices be analysed?
- What kinds of infrastructures do they rely on?
- How do these infrastructures become stabilised?
Sociotechnical devices are inscribed in networks of professionals as well as in institutional landscapes: how can the ecologies they are embedded in, and partly shape, be accounted for? For example, how can one analyse the situations where devices of participation are economic entities circulating in markets, or emerge as topics of public or private expertise?
Analysis of sociotechnical devices can focus on the micro-processes whereby participants make sense of their engagement, possibly in relation with other multiple activities.
- How can we provide a fine-grained description of the activities whereby individuals are made participants, and act as such?
2. Economic value of contributions
The outcomes of participatory initiatives may create economic value. For example, the contributions of users on travel, art or food-related websites have economic value for the companies being commented upon, as well as for the web-platform that gathers the users’ opinions.
Case studies of ways for creating value from the voluntary or involuntary contributions of users, including in the forms of digital marks they leave, are especially encouraged.
- What economic or business models sustain these initiatives?
- How do these models shape particular modes of user participation?
Analysis of examples could aim at understanding the political and economic dimensions of contemporary practices such as digital labour, crowdfunding, the use of lay expertise or citizen science by private companies or public bodies.
3. Participation as social ordering
Participation can be analysed as a social ordering process, since it allocates roles and responsibilities, makes it possible for some to have their voices heard but not others, and stabilises particular public problems at the expense of others.
- How can the inequalities shaped by participatory mechanisms in technological innovation be accounted for?
- How can we characterise, at micro or macro levels, the hierarchical constructs that participation results in?
These questions may be examined through the analysis of governance practices within emerging communities of practice, and also through the description of the gradual stabilisation of dominant forms of participation.
Program
All sessions will take place at the conference meeting place: Mines ParisTech, 60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France, Rooms V115-V116 and V119 (Maurice Allais Rooms)
Thursday 3rd of December 2015
09:00: Welcome/coffee
9h30-10h30: Introduction and Keynote:
Prof. Trevor Pinch, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
Produced Users: A Case Study of Amazon.com Product Reviewers
10:30 – 10:45: Coffee
10:45 – 12:30: Sessions 1 and 2
[1] Spaces of participation-innovation, V119
- K. Ermoshina, i3/Mines ParisTech, How to code utopias? Civic hackathons as formats of political and technical innovation.
- B. Baccarne, Ghent University, Exploring hackathons: civic vs. product innovation hackathons.
- Oyo Adegboyega, National U. of Ireland, Enabling greater transparency and open data innovation through the Route-To-PA Platform – Eliciting scenarios and user stories through collective intelligence approach.
- D. Trupia, LATTS, Framing open innovation: an ethnographic case study on the “La Cantine" par Silicon Sentier
CHAIR: FLORE BARCELLINI , CNAM
[2] New forms of governance/ open government, V115
- M. Alauzen, i3/Mines ParisTech, “Seduction, design and gamification of participation. Enquiry on State usability engineering”
- S. Könninger, Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaften, “Non-invasive prenatal testing and the challenges for public participation and public reflexivity”
- E. Ruijer, Utrecht University, “A Societal Model for Open Government”
- L. Soneryd, U. of Gothenburg & A. Irwin, Copenhagen Business School, “Governing the futures: participation as a battlefield over governance, democracy and innovation”
CHAIR: JASON CHILVERS, U. of East Anglia
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Sessions 3 and 4
[3] Participation in the big data era, V119
- C. Dickel & Thiem, TU München, “Beyond (political) participation. The engineering of citizen crowds”.
- J.S. Beuscart & al., Orange Labs, “Do online consumer reviews contribute to the emergence of an evaluation culture? A study of the French restaurant industry”.
- E. Gayoso, U. Paris Est, “A sociotechnical analysis of participatory innovation in firm-hosted online communities”.
CHAIR: PIERRE-JEAN BENGHOZI, i3/Ecole Polytechnique
[4] Conducting technical and industrial projects in participatory ways, V115
- M.H. Jeauffroy, INRA, Scaling up users’ participation: design-use relations in transition towards the ecologization of agriculture
- J. Koivisto & P. Pohjola, National Institute for Health, Web-based co-design of public procurement: Early involvements, participations and orderings
- G. Minguet, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Experimentation as innovation: lessons from the introduction of a quality improvement clinical microsystem approach for a rare disease
CHAIR: FRANCOISE DETIENNE, i3/Télécom ParisTech
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee
16:00 – 17:30: Sessions 5 and 6
[5] Transforming urban spaces through participation V119
- M. Vidal Calvet, MapsMethods, “Emergent Urban Natures”
- J. Da Cruz Paulos, ETH Zürich, “Inquiring the attachments of urban citizenship: issues, inscriptions and the displacement of politics”
- C. Renaud , V. Fernandez & G. Puel, i3 Télécom ParisTech/U. Toulouse, “Learning in the fab city : open innovation and the renewal of manufacturing in Shenzhen”.
CHAIR: NATHALIE RAULET-CROSET, i3/Ecole Polytechnique
[6] Collaborative economy, V115
- T. Beauvisage et al., Orange Labs, “Participation in collaborative consumption”.
- V. Botoric, Aarhus University, “LEGO Fans’ Co-creation of Value in the Participatory Playground”.
- L. Créno & B. Cahour, i3/Télécom ParisTech, “Comparing practices of carpooling and the building of trust for two different online services”
CHAIR: MICHAEL BAKER, i3/Télécom ParisTech
18:00: Cocktail
Friday 4th of December 2015
09:00 – 10:00: Welcome and keynote:
Prof. Pierre-Jean Benghozi, Professor at Ecole polytechnique, Commissioner at Arcep
R&D in the creative industries: the hidden... or forgotten innovation
10:00 – 10:15: Coffee
10:15 – 11:45: Sessions 7 and 8
[7] Citizen science/citizen technology, V119
- R. Srinivas, “Participation and Innovation – The Changing Contexts and Contours – Participatory Plant Breeding: A Case Study”
- Q. Chance & M. Meyer, AgroParisTech, “Hacking agriculture – when open source meets agricultural tools”.
- I. Rodriguez Giralt, UOC, & T. Sanchez Criado, TU München, “Caring otherwise: Self-experimental politics of independent-living in Spain”
- S. Proulx, UQÀM, “Bottom-up contributions for the construction of the botanical knowledge and participatory initiatives in an epistemic arena: the value of TelaBotanica”
CHAIR: SEZIN TOPÇU, EHESS
[8] Innovative devices-(Part 1) , V115
- A. Anasimov & H. Berkowitz, i3/Ecole Polytechnique, “Financing natural catastrophe risk through participatory innovation and knowledge transfer: the case of cat bond”.
- M. Ryczer, EHESS, “Sociotechnical Devices and Community Innovation Practices for Health”.
- A. Bovet, ETH Zürich & M. Relieu, i3/Télécom ParisTech, “Getting involved into participation : the interactional and material bases of a simulation based approach of sustainability issues in urban planning”.
CHAIR: EVA BOXENBAUM, i3/Mines ParisTech
12:00 – 13:00: Roundtable discussion
About Remaking Participation: Science, the Environment and Emergent Publics, co-edited by Jason Chilvers (U. of East Anglia) and Matthew Kearnes (U. of New South Wales)
CHAIRs: Jérôme Denis (i3/Télécom ParisTech), Vololona Rabeharisoa (i3/Mines ParisTech), Sezin Topçu (CEMS, EHESS)
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Sessions 9 and 10
[9] How participation transforms collective organisations, V119
- B. Blättel-Mink & D. Kahnert, Goethe Universität, “Open and user innovation as a challenge for doing organization”.
- A. Casilli, i3/Télécom ParisTech, “What platforms do to labor: participation, exploitation, and new social conflictualities”.
- S. Smith, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Professional identity and work routines as sources of resistance to participatory innovation.
CHAIR: DOMINIQUE PASQUIER i3/Telecom ParisTech
[10] Innovative devices-(part 2) , V115
- A. Cardona, INRA, “Participatory design process of farming systems experiments: an interdisciplinary analysis”.
- S. Laubé, U. de Brest, and F. Chlous, “Modéliser et partager pour favoriser l’innovation: la méthode PAIR”.
- C. Westling, University of Sussex, “Community development in relation to experience design: a case study of punchdrunk’s theatre and participant behaviours on- and offline”.
CHAIR: CHRISTIAN LICOPPE i3/Telecom ParisTech
16:00 – 17:30: Sessions 11 and 12
[11] Manufacturing innovating and participating citizens; V119
- W. Sack, University of California, “Taking Steve Jobs Seriously: Innovation and the Liberal Arts”.
- L. Soneryd, U. of Gothenburg, & B. Szerszynski, Lancaster University, “Topologies of the Public: Science, Engagement and Political Subjectivity”.
- M. Wisnioski, E.S. Hintz & M. Stettler, Virginia Tech, “Can Innovators Be Made? A Critical Participatory Model for Reflective Innovation”.
CHAIR: VALERIE BEAUDOUIN, i3/Telecom ParisTech
[12] Technology policy, V115
- M. Dulong de Rosnay & F. Musiani, ISCC, Towards a (de)centralization-based typology of peer production.
- S. Tillement and S. Guyard, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Participating to electronuclear scenario’s development: a process supporting decision or the construction of a new social world?
CHAIR: BRICE LAURENT, i3/Mines ParisTech
17:30 – 18:00: Concluding discussion
Registration
Organizing and Scientific Committee
Co-Chairs
Brice Laurent (Mines ParisTech)Michael Baker (Télécom ParisTech)
Valérie Beaudouin (Télécom ParisTech)
Nathalie Raulet-Croset (Ecole Polytechnique/ IAE U. Paris I)
Scientific Committee
Romain Badouard (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Flore Barcellini (CNAM)
Jean-Samuel Beuscart (Orange)
Anni Borzeix (Ecole Polytechnique)
Pierre-Jean Benghozi (Ecole Polytechnique)
Eva Boxenbaum (Mines ParisTech)
Dominique Cardon (Orange)
Jason Chilvers (U. of East Anglia)
Françoise Détienne (Télécom ParisTech)
Christian Licoppe (Telecom ParisTech)
Dominique Pasquier (Telecom ParisTech)
Cécile Méadel (Mines ParisTech)
Sezin Topçu (EHESS)
Jan-Peter Voß (T.U. Berlin).
