Value Sensitive Design (VSD) offers a framework for integrating societal values into technological development; yet, its application in fundamental technology research remains limited.
Over the past two decades, calls for transdisciplinary research have grown significantly, particularly within technologically driven innovation projects.
Cellular Agriculture (CA) refers to a set of disruptive innovations framed as a pathway to sustainable food systems. Due to their broad sociotechnical implications, responsible development of CA technologies requires a systemic ethical lens.
The other papers examine how socially disruptive technologies reshape relations between persons; in this paper I propose to consider how technology shapes the constitution of the persons themselves.
Shared personal history is not a background condition of a relationship but a site at which relational agency is continuously exercised: a shared past is negotiated, not retrieved, through the joint reconstruction, contestation, and recession of w
Digital dating platforms, relationship self-tracking ("quantified relationship") technologies, and increasingly sophisticated AI companions (Replika, Character.ai, and their successors) are reshaping the temporality, reciprocity, and embodied char
The therapeutic alliance – the collaborative bond between patient and clinician – is the most reliable predictor of positive treatment outcomes (Lambert & Barley, 2001) and a paradigm case of relational agency: a capacity exercised between per