技術と社会のネットワーク --研究課題と展望--

Abstract

This is a proceedings of the workshop "Network between the Technological and the Social: Research Agenda and Perspective" held on 14th December, 2007 at Kyoto University. This workshop was held as a part of the Global Center of Excellence (G-COE) Program "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa", organized by Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institutions and Technology". In order to establish a new paradigm based on "Sustainable Humanosphere" which this GCOE pursues, it is necessary that we creatively mediate the socio-ecological potentialities inherent in localities of the world with the frontier sciences. One step towards such creative mediation would be to pay attention to the interaction between the technological and the social in the contemporary world and to look at the socio-ecological dynamism that emerges from such network. This kind of perspective demands a viewpoint that goes beyond the dichotomies between "nature and society", "the objective and the subjective", "thing and human", "material-energy and meaning-value" etc. Our challenge is to find a path towards the new paradigm beyond such dichotomies. In this workshop, specialists from the fields of natural science, cultural anthropology, area studies, science studies and humanosphere science gathered together. They gave presentations on issues related to the Network between the Technological and the Social. We did not attempt to reach a conclusion in the workshop but tried to discover the agenda and perspective in order to open up our intellectual potentialities towards the future.