The International Centre for Frugal Innovation (ICFI) is inviting researchers to submit an extended abstract for a workshop exploring the tension between the accelerated pace of market-driven innovation and the non-negotiable, cyclical rhythms of reproduction and care.
The workshop aims to move the conversation beyond fast versus slow innovation, toward the democratic governance of multiple, simultaneous rhythms and an innovation agenda aligned with a flourishing post-growth society.
The Call for Papers invites contributions that conceptualize innovation, technical change and sociotechnical transitions as complex, evolving polyrhythmic symphonies. It focuses on the tension between the accelerated pace of market-driven innovation and the non-negotiable, cyclical rhythms of reproduction and care.
Important dates and application
31 December 2026: Application and abstract submission deadline
15 January 2027: Notification of selection
22 and 23 April 2027: Workshop in Pontevedra, Spain
About the workshop
The goal of The Rhythms of Innovation: Explorations into Alternative Imaginaries of Technological Change workshop on 22 and 23 April 2027 is to align innovation with the conditions for a flourishing post-growth society. As the call puts it, the question is 'who holds the power to modulate its rhythms'.
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