Guillem Palà Nosàs - Episteme Social

Guillem Palà Nosàs

                          Date of birth: 19 May 1990      Nationality: Spanish     Gender Male      (+34) 677357016

                          guillem.pala@epistemesocial.org      https://independent.academia.edu/GPal%C3%A0

                          c/Floridablanca, 146, 3-1, 08011, Barcelona, Spain

PUBLICATIONS
Palà, G. and Correa, G. (In press; accepted for publication). Participatory ageing as assemblage: infrastructuring
in practice, Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology studies.

2021
Scientification and technification of later life have pushed the very notion of ageing, embracing materiality as one of
the co-producers of a continuous process of becoming. In this paper, we want to explore the role of materiality in a
participatory mechanism designed to allow older people to develop arguments regarding digitalization to inform public
policies. To achieve this aim, we will employ a concept that will unfold the layers with which theories of ageing are
configured in practice: infrastructuring. In our particular case study, this will highlight the coordinated effort among
different agents needed to identify, negotiate and prove who can be considered a legitimate older citizen. Along this
path, we will face three instances where the theory is challenged by practice: 1) the very sense of what an
infrastructure is; 2) the theory about what a consensus conference is; and 3) what the definition of older person is. To
conclude, we suggest the necessity to switch the very question about who can be considered an older person to how in
a certain context a heterogeneous assemblage of (human and non-human) actors defines what an older person is.

Palà, G. and Domènech, M. (2021). Material Trajectories: How Issues Come to Matter in a Citizen Conference, in:
Delicado, A., Crettaz Von Roten, F. and Prpic, K. (eds.) Communicating Science and Technology in Society.
Springer.

10.1007/978-3-030-52885-0
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030528843 – 2021
It is widely assumed that the key component of public engagement with science is deliberation. However, determining
concrete political recommendations for a given issue is a complex process throughout which several processes of
translation occur, not all having to do with the discursive realm. This article supposes experimentation focused on
putting materiality foreground in the making of policy recommendations in an empirical case: the Barcelona ICT Citizen
Conference for Older People. The resulting ethnographic collaboration allowed the authors to report the process of
production of a recommendation document. The precarious translation trajectory by which concerns — and proposals
for addressing those concerns — emerged is outlined. Finally, this article shows how different assemblages (consisting
not only of humans) are needed to sustain a specific issue alive: the concern regarding electromagnetic waves. We
ultimately aim to encourage more intelligent and sustainable engagements with vibrant matter and lively things.
However, rather than proposing a general analogy to life, we suggest that close attention must still be paid to the
specific matter at hand.

Palà, G., Moyà-Köhler, J. y Domènech, M. (2019). Participación tecnocientífica en España: afrontando el reto de
hibridar ciencia y política, Papers de Sociología, 104 (1), 5-24.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2387
https://papers.uab.cat/article/view/v104-n1-pala-moya-kohler-domenech – 2019
Immersion in the knowledge society brought with it the danger of restricting the treatment of scientific and technical
issues to a process of obtaining consensus among experts, while keeping citizens away from political participation. The
need for increased dialogue between experts and lay citizens was pointed out by the EU Commission in 2002 in one of
its research and innovation programs, the Science and Society Action Plan. This article analyses the processes that took
place in Spain in response to this democratic requirement. Consistent with some premises of Science and Technology
Studies, we discuss the convenience of rewording the nomenclature used to describe and organize the different
experiences carried out in Spain in recent years. To this end, we have made explicit the questions raised regarding the
participatory treatment of technoscientific issues, as well as how they have been addressed. In that vein, we go beyond
the common nomenclature to focus on the understanding of the specificities characterizing science and technology
relations, which are expressed in what we propose calling “hybridization modes”.

Palà, G. (2018). La topología de los encuentros: trayectorias precarias en experiencias hibridantes de
participación ciudadana (Doctoral dissertation).

ISBN: 9788449079306
https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/565889 – 2018
This thesis deals with the role of expert knowledge in contemporary societies and its relationship with other disparate
knowledge. In this vein, we include a mapping of the experiences of citizen participation that took place in Spain
between 2002 and 2013 where experts and citizens gathered to discuss issues related to science and technology. The
deliberation allows that a great amount of scenarios can be constituted, which opens the possibility of diagramming an
extendable number of potential solutions. However, from the detailed analysis of a particular experience, the
Barcelona Citizen Conference of Older People, w    ​ e found that if the decision-making process is not delimited, it raises
the risk of allowing the discussion to continue unabated, threatening the possibility of reaching agreements.
Responding ethnographically to the production of a document constituted during the experience with the aim of
informing public policies, we experiment with new ways of thinking about participation and politics, extending the
focus towards the role of materiality. Following the capacity of this final document of recommendations to inform
public policies beyond the Citizen Conference, we see how it fails to consume its objectives. It fails because the
document does not manage to survive the institutional political ecologies, heteronomous for it. This leads us to open
up the possibility of thinking about an 'ecologically and differentially speculative ethics'. An ethical proposal that poses
the question concerning encounters capacities. We consider essential to ask ourselves about the collective ways of
becoming difference, while at the same time we consider vital to situate the production of this difference in the
encounters and to speculate with a notion of care that enables an approach to encounters as relevant ecologies that
allow participating entities to differentiate collectively in a way that puts the life of the whole in the foreground.

Palà, G., Correa, G. y Butti, D. (2015). La política más allá de lo humano: dominación y emancipación en los
modos de relacionarse con la vida, Libre pensamiento, 81, 46-51.

http://librepensamiento.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/LP-81-web.pdf – 2015
At a time when we are beginning to experience the post-human future narrated in the science fiction of the 1970s, our
challenge is to rethink how we can account for the power relations that sustain and will sustain the imaginaries of the
possible from now on. This is a fundamental task in order to rethink what infrastructures of relation we endow
ourselves with in order to co-inhabit assemblages that imply not only a resistance, but emancipation in our modes of
relating to life.

PROJECTS

1 OCT 2016 – 1 OCT 2017
Ethics for robots: Some considerations in designing social robots for children's hospitals.

https://barcelonasts.wordpress.com/etica-per-a-robots-consideracions-etiques-per-al-disseny-de-robots-socials-per-a-
un-hospital-pediatric/
Until a few years ago, robots were confined to highly structured environments such as laboratories or industrial
settings, often isolated and enclosed in cages. Over the last few decades, however, we witness what is known as a new
era of robotics. There has been a push in the development of robots designed to be introduced into everyday
environments. Social robots, designed to interact with people following specific human behavior patterns, open up a
new scenario of human-machine relations. In the medical context, these robots are particularly interesting for working
on health's emotional and social dimensions. They are being used mostly with the elderly and children. In children's
health, social robots have been used to involve children in different types of treatment (learning eating patterns,
treatment of diabetes). They have been used, as well, to work on social skills with autistic children or to reduce pain
and anxiety in hospital environments. Beyond the technological challenges involved, the introduction of robots
designed to interact with children raises several social and ethical controversies. But technological advancement has
often outpaced ethical debate about their appropriateness or desirability, as evidenced by the lack of harmonized
ethical criteria for their introduction into healthcare settings and their use with children. For this reason, the study
"Ethics for robots. Some considerations for the design of robots for pediatric hospitals" aims to contribute to the
ethical reflection on the introduction of social robots in pediatric settings.

1 JAN 2015 – 31 DEC 2017
Health and Technoscience. Citizen Participation in Social Aproppiation of Knowledge and Technological Design
Processes

https://barcelonasts.wordpress.com/salud-y-tecnociencia-la-participacion-ciudadana-en-los-procesos-de-apropiacion-
social-del-conocimiento-y-de-diseno-tecnologico-2/
In our knowledge societies it is a common topic to show the enormous difficulties that ordinary people experiment
when they want to participate in the processes of definition of social politics and common services. Frequently, it is put
forward that such situation is inevitable because of the mentioned politics and services are based on specific and
complex technoscientific developments. Nevertheless, in the last decade it has appeared an important scientific and
political tradition questioning that affirmation. This tradition poses lay people have the right to participate in the
production of a knowledge and technology that is thought and designed in order to improve, precisely, their lives. Such
participation means both a relevant improvement in the quality of our democracies and a better definition and
acceptation of the technoscientific products and results. Our research is based on this tradition and we propose the
following hipothesis: the social appropiation of expert knowledge and the citizen participation conform a important
democratic value. This has to be strengthen and the ways it works have to be deeply analysed in order to figure out the
dimensions and variables that can facilitate a permanent relation between lay people and experts. In this sense, we set
out two general objectives: 1) To analyse the dimensions involved in the social appropriation of expert knowledge. In
other words, to examine the psychosocial, individual and cultural elements that may operate in this exercise (POBICS
sub-project). 2) To evaluate and delimit which elements intervene in a way that enhances and facilitates citizen
participation in the development, by experts, of knowledge and technology. The aim is to to develop useful indications
and recommendations for teams of designers and/or engineers interested in introducing participatory strategies in
their design processes. (CO-DIS sub-project).

1 JAN 2012 – 31 DEC 2014
Science, Technology and Democracy: Expertise, Institutions an Citizen Participation

https://barcelonasts.wordpress.com/ciencia-tecnologia-y-democracia-experticia-instituciones-y-participacion-
ciudadana-democit_coordinated-action/
For the last years we have found changes in the form that Spanish society perceives the role of science and technology
in the daily lives of citizens and show the implications of expert knowledge and technical devices in ageing, identity
construction, social organisation and institutions. It is increasingly more common the constitution of hybrid assemblies
mixing lay people and experts in order to solve public controversies. Such hibrid forums can take place as an
institutional (“top-down”) initiative, promoting participatory mechanisms such as public consultation and consensus
conferences, or as social mobilization (“bottom-up”) actions, as for example, those of concerned groups that call for
greater participation in the definition of policies. This coordinated project aims to compare the mechanisms of
participation with the processes of mobilization by experiencing and analy zing the formation of hybrids forums of
experts and non-experts on issues relating to collectives with difficulties to express their voice in the public arena. In
order to achieve this goal, each investigation group will focus on one of those dimensions applied to the case of people
affected by policies for the promotion of the independent living in Spain. The GESCIT will be devoted to the mapping of
institutional consensus experiences between expert and citizens in Spain and will implement a consensus conference
with experts and older people. The ATIC will analyze the reality of the concerned groups regarding the promotion of
independent life in Spain and will identify the processes of hybridization of knowledge and expertise in these
mobilizations. The combination of these two dimensions will offer a general diagnostic on participatory experiences
and mobilisations of concerned groups in Spain. It will reveal the strengths and weakness of both processes, as well as
the potential of each one for the hybridization of knowledge.

WORK EXPERIENCE

18 JAN 2021 – CURRENT – Barcelona, Spain
PROJECTS MANAGER – EPISTEME SOCIAL

Project manager. Expert on active ageing, public participation and co-design..

15 SEP 2013 – 15 JUN 2015 – Barcelona, Spain
UNIVERSITY TEACHING ASSISTANT – AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

Professor of practical classes. Subject: Group Dynamics.

1 MAR 2013 – 28 FEB 2017 – Bellaterra, Spain
SOCIAL RESEACHER – AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

Project manager. Qualitative methodology. Ethnography. Public participation. Co-design. Science and Technology
Studies.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
15 SEP 2008 – 15 JUN 2012 – Social Psychology Department, Building B, Campus de Bellaterra, Bellaterra, Spain
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY – Autonomous University of Barcelona

Field(s) of study
     ◦ Psychology
Extraordinary degree's prize        https://www.uab.cat/

15 SEP 2012 – 15 JUN 2013 – Social Psychology Department, B Building, Campus de Bellaterra, Bellaterra, Spain
MASTER'S DEGREE ON PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION – Autonomous University of Barcelona

https://www.uab.cat/

15 JUN 2013 – 3 MAY 2018 – Social Psychology Department, B Building, Campus de Bellaterra, Bellaterras, Spain
PHD ON PERSON AND SOCIETY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD – Autonomous University of Barcelona

Field(s) of study
     ◦ Social psychology
Cum Laude Qualification      The topology of encounters: precarious trajectories in public participation experiences

https://www.uab.cat/

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Mother tongue(s): CATALAN           SPANISH

Other language(s):

                                UNDERSTANDING                                 SPEAKING                          WRITING
                           Listening             Reading         Spoken production    Spoken interaction

 ENGLISH                       C1                  C2                   C1                   C1                    C2

Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user

DIGITAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office    Microsoft Excel       Microsoft Powerpoint    Google Drive       Microsoft Word        Social Media
Google Docs      Team-working skills

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

26 JUL 2018 – 26 JUL 2018 – EASST 2018 Conference, Lancaster, UK
Opening an ecological differently speculative ethics?

This paper links two empirical explorations focus on the production of new beings: a participatory experience with the
elderly talking about technology to inform political recommendations and a participative design with children and
engineers prototyping social robots. Two different ways of conjoining science, technology, and society. Two other
devices were placed to reach a consensus between different actors and to produce things. Two different ways of
undermining the expected investigation goals. Nevertheless, the reflection about 'what did we do wrong?' allows us to
explore not only those other collateral realities produced unexpectedly but also an ethical approach moved by a
mantra: the question about 'what could be an encounter?'
Departing from Gabriel Tarde's work, we will suggest the possibility of moving towards an 'ecological differently
speculative' ethical proposal. We consider it vital to ask ourselves about how we 'come together to differ together.' We
believe that it is essential to speculate with a notion of care that enables an approach to encounters as ecologies of
relevance, to allow the participating monads to differentiate collectively in a way that puts the whole foreground's life.
From this perspective, facing the future becomes recursive speculation about how to take care of the encounters,
make them ecological, and enable every participant to differentiate itself consistently with its potential. But above all,
by attending to the worlds that it will produce with her participation in the encounter.

31 MAY 2018 – 31 MAY 2018 – Science, politics, activism, and citizenship, Valencia, Spain
¿Hacia una ética ecológica y diferencialmente especulativa?

Esta comunicación vinculará dos investigaciones centradas en mecanismos concretos emplazados para la producción
de nuevas entidades. Por un lado, una experiencia participativa con personas mayores hablando de tecnología con el
propósito de informar recomendaciones políticas. Por el otro, una experiencia de diseño participativo con niños, niñas
y personas dedicadas a la ingeniería para diseñar prototipos de robots sociales. En lo particular, estrategias específicas
para conjugar diferencias y homogeneizar propuestas; esto es, dos formas diferentes de tejer relaciones entre ciencia,
tecnología y sociedad. En su conjunto, dos dispositivos emplazados para alcanzar un consenso que desencadene la
producción de nuevos seres. Se dará cuenta de la vinculación de ambas experiencias a través de la ejemplificación de
dinámicas concretas y transversales.

No obstante, el análisis de la vinculación entre ambas experiencias dejará entrever también dos formas distintas de
alejarse de las expectativas de investigación esperadas. Así, la reflexión sobre los porqués de ese alejamiento entre
expectativa y consumación dejará entrever la necesidad de cultivar un compromiso especulativo que, abriendo modos
alternativos de lanzar y difuminar cuestiones que no habían emergido hasta el momento (Savransky, 2016), contribuya
a engendrar mundos más habitables (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011), mundos más ecológicos –que pongan de relieve la
necesidad de las entidades en él participantes de establecer vínculos vitalmente coordinados entre ellas . En concreto,
y partiendo del trabajo de Gabriel Tarde, se especulará con la posibilidad de articular una ética ecológica y
diferencialmente especulativa que difracte, a modo de mantra, preguntas como ¿qué puede un encuentro? o ¿cómo
nos juntamos para diferir juntas? Esto permitirá, a su vez, revisitar la conceptualización de la diferencia que se ha
esgrimido hasta el momento en el seno de muchos enfoques feministas.

10 FEB 2017 – 10 FEB 2017 – XX Jornada de Ankulegi. Antropologías de la materialidad, San Sebastian, Spain.
Palà, G. y Domènech, M.; Documentos en circulación: cuidado material en ecologías políticas

1 JUN 2016 – 1 JUN 2016 – 4S/EASST Conference Barcelona-2016: Science and Technology by other means, Barcelona,
Spain.
Palà, G., Angulo, C., Barco, A. and Garcia Fernandez, M.; Social robots in hospitals: extending care visions

The question concerning care meaning is not new. Nevertheless, strongly influenced by feminist perspectives, several
approaches have been carried out recently inside STS that try to overflow a human-centered vision of care. One of the
most exciting contributions of such methods has been to focus on the materiality of care. That is the exploration of
how human and non-human actors become assembled to allow concrete care practices. Those analyses make a
symmetrical account of it based on alternative issues such as fragility or maintenance. In that vein, social robots'
inclusion in a hospital context appears as a triggering case to develop a reflection on innovative care assemblages and
processes. Moreover, it allows the emergence of in-depth discussions concerning the role of technologies as agents of
care. We will show at this presentation how the notion of care, with the inclusion of social robots, is being extended
from different understandings. A multidisciplinary group will join to defend their vision on the issue and weave some
hybrid argumentations on how care considerations have been switched and extended.

30 AUG 2016 – 30 AUG 2016 – 4S/EASST Conference Barcelona-2016: Science and Technology by other means,
Barcelona, Spain
Fabok, M., Szymanski, E., Palà, G., Moyà-Köhler, J., Farré, L. and Karakaş, Ö.; Organization of the postgraduate
workshop of 4S/EASST Conference Barcelona-2016

1 JUL 2016 – 1 JUL 2016 – XII Congreso Español de Sociología, Gijón, Spain
de Oliveira Machado, R., Palà, G. and Domènech, M.; Robots sociales en hospitals. Articulando una ética común.

3 MAR 2015 – 3 MAR 2015 – V Encuentro de la red esCTS: ¿Me lo dices o me lo cuentas? , Madrid, Spain
Correa, G. y Palà, G.; Dime cómo invocas y te diré qué política ejerces. Los artefactos de invocación como
modos de producción política

Todo mecanismo de participación y movilización política posee sus formas de inclusión y de exclusión de participantes
o activistas. Los ideales políticos de la modernidad aún presentes en la mayoría de estas experiencias, abogan por la
inclusión de todos en los procesos de toma decisión circunscritos bajo la figura de la democracia entendida como la
participación del pueblo. Pero ese “todos” que representa el pueblo reunido en un mismo espacio es físicamente
imposible. Es por esto que nos proponemos pensar la política más allá de lo meramente discursivo para tomar en
consideración la perspectiva material que permite su sostenimiento (y performatividad). En esta presentación,
inspirados en el concepto de infraestructuras de la información desarrollado por Susan L. Star entre otras, queremos
prestar atención a los mecanismos políticos de participación (mecanismos deliberativos, asambleas, parlamentos,
consultas, entre otros) como infraestructuras políticas. Pensar de un modo infraestructural la política nos posibilita
poner el foco de mira en las tecnologías que la sostienen y la hacen posible, así como en los artefactos de invocación
que, a modo de diagrama (Deleuze 2007), posibilitan que se mantenga y efectivice (virtualmente) la inclusión de ese
“todos”.

1 MAR 2015 – 1 MAR 2015 – V Encuentro de la red esCTS: ¿Me lo dices o me lo cuentas? , Madrid, Spain
Harpeonacia en tiempos modernos: una provocación verbal

El cuestionamiento por la representación en los procesos de participación ciudadana ha sido un tema debatido en
muchos trabajos dentro de los STS. Algunas de las figuras que han sido planteadas para conceptualizar el papel que
juega la ciudadanía lega en tales instancias son la de representante, propuesta por Callon, y la de diplomático,
propuesta por Stengers. No obstante, tales producciones conceptuales se enfrentan a desbordes importantes cuando
son puestas a dialogar con la empiria de un proceso de participación concreto: la Conferencia Ciutadana de la Gent
Gran de Barcelona. En esta comunicación me propongo, a partir de la adopción de una perspectiva material de la
participación, dar cuenta de la agencia distribuida en el tratamiento de una issue concreta: la preocupación por las
ondas electromagnéticas. Partiendo de la figura del harpedonapta, recuperada por Michael Serres en su obra “el
Contrato Natural”, invito a abrir la discusión a nuevas figuraciones sobre representatividad en las que la política sea
performada más como un verbo que conjugar que como un sustantivo. Mi exploración se focaliza en la relación entre,
por un lado, las operaciones contingentes e inmanentes con las que el tema toma forma en una trayectoria
dependiente de los concernimientos que se tienen en cuenta para definir qué importa y, por otro lado, cómo el
mecanismo mismo de participación diagrama tal trayectoria.

17 SEP 2014 – 17 SEP 2014 – EASST 2014 Conference, Torun, Poland
Palà, G. and Correa, G.; Ghost and ghostbusters: Phantom hunting in times of participatory democracy

As an extension of the parliament, the participatory devices try to achieve the democratic utopia, that is, the full
participation of the political body. Paradoxically, they are both the affirmation and the negation of the parliamentarian
logic on the grounds of representation. How is that paradox settled? Who becomes a legitimate political actor?
Through a qualitative study on why people do not participate in such instances, carried out in Catalonia, we present an
analysis of the construction of categories of non-participants ("ghosts") by responsible technicians of participation
("ghostbusters"). At the same time, we explore in a symmetrical way how non-participants make sense of their absence
from the devices of participation ("containment units") and contextualize the recruitment strategies ("traps"). In the
first place, we conclude that for the success of the mechanism, it is necessary to invoke "ghosts". That way, the non-
participants must be present despite their absence to legitimize the process and shape the identity of those who
participate. Secondly, the inclusion/exclusion strategies deployed by the "ghostbusters" allow the dispositive to work
administrating the problematic tension of political representation -if everyone took part in it, it would not be political
work. This way, the participatory devices are constituted in apparatuses of the capture of (present) participants and
(absent) non-participants, that dispute not only what is the public and the issue, but also what is democracy.

5 JUN 2014 – 5 JUN 2014 – IV Encuentro de la Red de Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología. ¡Si me queréis, irse!, Salamanca,
Spain
Palà, G. and McHardy, J.; Publish, like you give a damn: careful experiments in publishing

Writing a Ph.D. is a personal and academic orientation that frequently brings out fears, hopes, and insecurities. While
this can feel quite self-centered, there is increasing pressure to publish, which requires us early-on to adopt already
established logics and formats. For years now, the annual meetings of the esCTS network have provided a space to
discuss the work of Ph.D. students. In last year's conference in Barcelona, we decided to take this one step further to
explore new forms and formats of academic writing.

In this spirit and keeping with the theme of the upcoming fourth esCTS meeting, we offer the workshop: "Publish, like
you give a damn: careful experiments in publishing." This workshop title is based on the new STS open-access
publisher Mattering Press and will be co-convened by Julien McHardy and Guillem Palà. Julien is one of Mattering Press'
editors and recently finished his Ph.D. at Lancaster University. Guillem is at present working on a Ph.D. at Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona. Together we are starting to get excited about this workshop and look forward to an inspiring
session with you.

5 JUN 2014 – 5 JUN 2014 – IV Encuentro de la Red de Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología. ¡Si me queréis, irse!, Salamanca,
Spain
Palà, G., Correa, G., Papadopoulou, S., González, P. and Domènech, M.; Fantasmas y cazafantasmas: estrategias
de captación de participantes y no participantes en tiempos de democracia participativa

4 JUN 2014 – 4 JUN 2014 – : IV Encuentro de la Red de Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología, Salamanca, Spain
GESCIT Research Group; ¿DEMO-qué? Experimento drama-técnico de producciones democráticas

En un viaje transtemporal, el filósofo Demócrito de Abdera viaja a Salamanca para ser parte de una experiencia de
colectivización de voces que hablan sobre qué es la política, qué es la democracia y qué es participar. Muy lejos de
aquella democracia, Demócrito, “el elegido del pueblo”, el protocientífico de los átomos y la magia, nos conduce a una
experiencia polifónica dónde se podrán escuchar diversas voces de distintos actores dialogar a partir de fragmentos
extraídos de distintas situaciones y experiencias. La pretensión de esta propuesta es recomponer un diálogo
imaginario entre aquellas personas que participan y aquellas que no lo hacen en el juego democrático.
Cual tragedia griega, la experiencia consta de tres actos: una obertura de tipo mística donde se invocará el espíritu de
Demócrito; un ejercicio de imaginería política, basado en el diálogo imaginario e interactivo donde los asistentes
prestarán sus cuerpos para que se expresen voces sonantes y disonantes a través de ellos; y, finalmente, una
microasamblea donde se debatirá qué escenarios se montan y qué telones se abren cuando se llama a participar.
La experiencia pretende ser un espacio participativo en el que la complicidad de quienes asistan será clave para su
desarrollo. Como espacio polifónico que pretende ser, os invitamos, para componer esa polifonía de voces políticas, a
enviar fragmentos de textos que nos hablen sobre la política, la democracia, lo común… ya sean extraídos de
conversaciones de café, de prensa, de reflexiones personales y cotidianas, de aquella autora que te empecinas en
contarle a tus colegas no académicos, de la asamblea de tu barrio, de la opinión “sabia” del político de turno o de la
folclórica que más te gusta.

11 JUL 2013 – 11 JUL 2013 – : XI Congreso Español de Sociología, Salamanca, Spain
Palà, G., Moyà-Köhler, J. and Martínez, S.; ¿Quién, cómo y cuándo? Análisis de los procesos participativos en
España.

21 JUN 2013 – 21 JUN 2013 – III Encuentro de la Red de Estudios Sociales de Ciencia y Tecnología, Barcelona, Spain
La configuración de recomendaciones políticas en una experiencia de democracia dialógica. La referencia
circulante como herramienta de exploración

Tradicionalmente, en las controversias de carácter tecnocientífico, se tiende a considerar las voces de los expertos
como las más autorizadas para su clausura. Ante esta situación, algunas autoras han propuesto nuevas experiencias, a
partir de una lógica dialógica, las cuales permiten incorporar ciudadanas legas en el proceso de toma de decisiones a
nivel político. A partir del estudio de un caso empírico de democracia dialógica, la Conferència Ciutadana de la Gent
Gran de Barcelona sobre la digitalización de la sociedad, pretendo aprehender los procesos por los cuales las
ciudadanas legas participantes en una experiencia de democracia dialógica llegan a consensuar y estabilizar un
enunciado, en tanto certeza, sobre un tema particular dentro del proceso de toma de decisiones. El poder para
configurar certezas, en este contexto, se entenderá desde la lógica que describe Law (1986). De esta forma, partiendo
de los enunciados que han sido consensuados durante la experiencia y que dan cuenta de las recomendaciones de las
participantes a nivel político, se rastrean los actantes que han participado en la configuración del enunciado y la forma
en la que lo han hecho a partir del concepto de referencia circulante propuesto por Latour. En concreto, focalizo el
análisis en los procesos que configuran la creación de certeza entorno a la temática de la usabilidad de las TIC.

21 JUN 2013 – 21 JUN 2013 – III Encuentro de la Red de Estudios Sociales de Ciencia y Tecnología, Barcelona, Spain
GESCIT Research Group; Participación ciudadana en asuntos tecnocientíficos

20 JUN 2013 – 20 JUN 2013 – II Encuentro de la Red de Estudios Sociales de Ciencia y Tecnología en España, Gijón, Spain
Moyá Köhler, J., Palà Nosàs, G., Santa, A., de Soto, P. y G. Seguel, A.; Taller interactivo, Pre-doctoral session