News published by the University of Klagenfurt concerning the Department of Science and Technology Studies

Shortlist nomination for students of Games Studies

Three game developers from the Master’s degree programme in Games Studies and Engineering have been nominated among those shortlisted for the Pioneers of Game Development Austria’s Talent Award 2024.  One of the three developers, Mano Marichal from Belgium, revealed how this came about and what makes this Master’s degree programme so special when we interviewed him. Along with his colleagues Nikolay Markozov from Russia and Anja Kolundzija from Serbia, they are some of the most innovative young artists that have emerged from the University of Klagenfurt’s Games Studies and Engineering programme.

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“Technological development does not tend to be the object of democratic processes of negotiation.”

Do we control technology, or does technology control us? Which processes push our technological progress forward? And, with this question in mind, who or what is crucial for determining the shape of the world of tomorrow? The science and technology scientist Daniel Barben joins ad astra in the Sonnepark St. Veit/Glan for a glance into the future.

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Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft im Fokus

Viele zentrale Zukunftsfragen unserer Gegenwart, ob Energieversorgung oder Digitalisierung, beziehen sich auf Wissenschaft, Technik und Innovation. Im Wintersemester 2016/17 startet dazu ein neues Masterstudium „Science, Technology & Society Studies“.

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Klima in Reparatur

Die Ideen des Climate Engineering muten wie Science Fiction an: Spiegel, die Sonnenstrahlen umlenken, oder künstliche Wolken, die uns vor Erderwärmung schützen. Den Status des Utopischen scheint die Idee, dem Klimawandel mit technischen Hilfsmitteln entgegenzuwirken, nun zunehmend zu verlieren, wie Nachhaltigkeitsforscher Daniel Barben beobachtet. Er erforscht die Rolle von Climate Engineering in Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft.

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