Human Practices: Methods

HERE WE WILL PUT A PICTURE OF THE MODEL;

Involving a social scientist
Goal: to be exposed to issues from different disciplines at an early stage in the project design and to create an ‘open minded’ attitude amongst project developers.

Propose project design to scientists
Goal: acquiring extensive feedback from scientist, with the goal of refining the molecular mechanism of your project design.

Stakeholders in potential fields
Goal: get acquainted with possible safety, security, ethical and legal issues concerning a possible application of your project. (in an early stage of your project design)

Safety & Security
Goal: Contact an institute that governs legislation at national level to find out in what way a future application of your (iGEM) project may be subject to rules.

Public engagement
Method: Interactive ways of communication rather then one-directional knowledge transfer from scientists to public. Human Outreach. Goal: Education, perception & awareness amongst public (and scientists).

Concepts

• Constructive Technology Assessment

• Midstream modulation: aims to construct collaborative engagement between social and natural scientists in the laboratory, in order to broaden research decisions incrementally. [1]

• Platform technology: It can be defined as a structural or technological form from which various products can emerge without the expense of a new process/technology introduction. [2]

• Valorization: the importance of utilizing and benefitting from knowledge created through science.

• Biosafety: biosafety covers measures that aim to prevent the unintentional exposure to pathogens and toxins, or their accidental release

• Biosecurity: biosecurity measures focus on the prevention of theft, misuse, or intentional release of pathogens and toxins

• Reflexivity: it is important to find out how interests and world-views differ among people all over the world, regarding the life forms that SB deals with, now and in the future. These differences in perception need to be taken into account, because there are no single answers to the ethical questions regarding SB arising from these different perceptions.

• Responsibility

• Transdisciplinarity: “In the literature there seems to be consensus that contemporary complex societal and environmental problems require a new type of knowledge production. This is especially addressed by the concept of transdisciplinary research” “As distinct from interdisciplinary research , transdisciplinary research moves beyond the integration of different scientific disciplines by also incorporating the knowledge, interests and values of stakeholders who are not part of the scientific community” (Kloet, 2011)