Macospol
MApping COntroversies on Science for POLitics
Experimenting news tools for exploring and representing public debates on scientific and technological issues!
Democracy is the possibility to disagree.
MACOSPOL is a joint research enterprise that gathers scholars in science, technology and society across Europe. Its goal is to devise a collaborative platform to help students, professionals and citizens in mapping out scientific and technical controversies.
Technical democracy requires spaces and instruments to facilitate public involvement in technological and scientific issues. Such democratic equipment is yet to be assembled, even though much theoretical research has been done to envision its articulation. At the same time, digital innovations are providing an increasing number of new instruments and forums that can be used to promote public participation.
MACOSPOL has been set up to facilitate the connection between these two developments, allowing the best research in science, technology and society to ally with the best research on web-based tools.
Official website: www.macospol.eu
Interactive exploration of controversy spaces
The goal of the Macospol project, assembling a web-based platform to help the exploration and mapping of scientific controversies, will be reached through the involvement of 8 partner teams, and different lines of research represented by 8 Work Packages.
MFSA is partner of the Work Package 4 dealing with visual space in collaboration with the team of Valérie November at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
