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SUMMARY:LAGOSTECH at EASST 2026: "Unpacking Alternative Futures"
DESCRIPTION:Read the EASST2026 Theme \nAt this conference\, we explore not only about possible futures\, but also about the means and methods by which we can realize them. We are “leaning into the future” not only despite the current crises\, but precisely because of them. \nPanel: Unpacking alternative futures \nResponding to the “crisis of imagination” in science and society\, STS calls for studying and developing “alternative futures.” Yet\, what constitutes an alternative when\, why\, and for whom requires unpacking. This panel explores what forms of “alternativity” STS mobilizes to which ends. \nAlternative to What? Negotiating Sociotechnical Futures from Lagos\, Nigeria\, and the situatedness of imagination \nSTS scholars call for “alternative futures” to counter a diagnosed “crisis of imagination\,” tied to sustainability\, degrowth\, and justice. But what does “alternative” mean when viewed from places where exclusion from technological inclusion isn’t abstract\, but a lived condition? What happens to “alternativity” when futures are imagined from Lagos’ tech ecosystem? \nThis paper draws on the ethnographic LAGOSTECH project (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01). It presents findings from a participatory scenario-building workshop and anticipatory interviews conducted in Lagos in 2025/2026. The methodology combines the STEEP framework\, scenario planning from the Institute for the Future (USA)\, and an updated Robert Textor’s Ethnographic Futures Interview. Through fictional characters in Lagos 2035\, participants crafted optimistic and pessimistic narratives around drivers such as AI adoption\, government policy\, infrastructure\, and entrepreneurial development. \nA productive tension runs through the findings. The futures participants desired — industrialization\, productive capacity\, infrastructure\, global participation in AI — map onto what STS often labels “hegemonic.” From Lagos\, though\, these aspirations feel genuinely alternative; colonial legacies\, structural adjustment\, and global asymmetries have long foreclosed them. Yet participants didn’t embrace these visions uncritically — they negotiated them\, questioning who controls AI and whether growth risks reproducing old dependencies. Pessimistic scenarios feared not technological excess but exclusion: remaining consumers rather than becoming producers of innovation. \nThis paper contributes to the panel’s agenda with a core argument: “alternativity” is irreducibly situated. Unpacking alternative futures demands attention not just to what people imagine but to the structural position from which they imagine — and the negotiations they engage in.
URL:https://www.lagostech.eu/event/lagostech-at-easst-2026-unpacking-alternative-futures/
LOCATION:AGH University of Krakow\, al. Adama Mickiewicza 30\, 30-059\, Kraków\, Poland
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ORGANIZER;CN="Davide Casciano":MAILTO:davide@casciano.info
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