Action-oriented knowledge
Who we are
Bio, Techno and Practice are converging, radically transforming scientific understanding, yet this major shift remains largely unnoticed or insuffieciently understood.
Bio, Techno, and Practice are major focal issues of the contemporary world. At the same time, they need to be radically thought over, in connection with one another. In fact, the ‘biological’, the ‘technological’, and the ‘practical epistemic’ ways of thinking are already merging and contaminating their respective traditions, but this radical transformation of scientific understanding goes on largely unconscious or neglected.
New opportunities for understanding and action are at hand.
Academic innovation
Helping people asking relevant questions
Bio Techno Practice goes by identifying a sequence of crucial philosophical issues and questions that are emerging from science, and that inextricably connect Bio, Techno, and Practice, emphasizing their reciprocal differences and interdependencies.
These issues are worked upon by means of international networking, strongly interdisciplinary workshops, and collective publications.
Situated experimentation
Working for the common good
Keywords for these research-actions are: human flourishing, health and wellbeing, sociality and common good, technology, organizations and leadership, governance, education.
Bio Techno Practice ultimately aims to enhance an alternative funding agency for science-based, socio-technological experiences that are innovative under the Bio Techno Practiceframe, but are unlikely to access other sources (due to their philosophical assumptions that are ‘deviant’ with respect to dominant thinking).
Indeed, new ways of conceiving the institutions and society itself are at stake beyond current dichotomies (e.g., sequential vs. systemic paradigms; global vs local; specialization vs. open boundaries; structural interdisciplinarity vs incentive systems), and unconventional networks of subjects are to be encouraged.
Education
Raising a new generation of culturally generative citizens
Looking at the future, it is of the greatest importance to open spaces for critical reflections and innovative thinking. Our priority is to educate people to epistemological and aesthetic
values, that is contributing in their own societies to a sustainable development.
Accordingly, Bio Techno Practice undertakes specific education actions, privileging schools and other education agencies, but also public events and campaigns. In addition, higher training will be addressed to future scientists, intellectuals, professors.
We are designing intensive courses, fellowships, and other forms of training for masters and PhD students, as well as for other interested scholars. Bio Techno Practice education projects benefit not only from academic research, but also from situated experimentation.
See the Human Flourishing Program.
