Anna Kosters
I'm a 20-year-old Civil Engineering student, finishing my Bsc this year. I'm excited to take part in the course Responsible Innovation, because it gives me the opportunity to look at (innovative) technology from another point of view!
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Keep students from following Robert Moses’ footsteps!
By making sure Value Sensitive Design is taught to every future innovator.An example that is often used in the discussion if design represents values is that of Robert Moses’ low hanging overpasses . Robert Moses, “master builder” of New York from the 1920s to the 1970s and responsible for many of the roads, bridges and parks built in that period, designed the overpasses on parkways in Long Island extraordinarily low. It is said that he did this on purpose, to… -
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Gas extraction in Groningen...
... And why the Dutch government still has something to learn about Cost-Benefit Analysis.About 8 years ago, in the autumn of 2007, me and my family moved away from a small village in the northeast of the province of Groningen. We moved to the city, about 20 kilometers towards the west, where already 3 out of 4 children went to school and my parents had a job. We found a nice house in the center of the city, and luckily our house in Wirdum, as the village is called, was sold in about… -
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Making the unknown known
How ignorance propels us forward.Ever since I first encountered the term “Responsible Innovation”, about 7 weeks ago now, there has been one thought that popped into my head particularly often: “What a tiresome business this is sometimes.” To really be a Responsible Innovator, you have to take into account so many things. So many what ifs, dilemmas (morally overloaded or not), value conflicts, problems of many hands, risks -
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A responsible future for the chocolate industry?
Even if chocolate will never be frugal, it can be inclusive and responsible. But only if there is enough awareness among consumers. So make… -
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The lucky 0.1%
Why WeTransfer made it and the hangover mask didn’t.Ever heard of this? Seen this... Or used this? You probably didn’t, because these are all examples of great inventions that unfortunately never made it to the market . But why didn’t they? I mean, who wouldn’t want a hangover mask, am I right? This is a question that thousands of people, probably including the inventor of the hangover mask, dream of knowing the answer to: How do innovations… -
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TTIP: weighing facts and emotions
On how to avoid the technocratic and populist pitfall in the case of TTIP.Last week, while scrolling through my Facebook timeline, an event invitation popped up: “10-10: Sound the alarm against TTIP!” Triggered by this title, I clicked on the pop-up and landed on the page of a protest organized by, among others, Greenpeace, FNV (the Dutch labor union) and the political parties SP and GroenLinks. I’d heard about TTIP before, but it definitely got my full attention when… -
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So close you can't ignore it anymore
Relating distance to the feeling of responsibility.Just like so many others, I too saw the page-filling image in last week’s papers of the three-year-old boy Aylan , washed up the shore nearby Bodrum, Turkey. He drowned when he and his family tried to escape the war in Syria. The images of the boy lying face-down on the beach and being carried away by a Turkish police officer shocked people all across the world, including myself and probably you