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The Programme
Expectations in Science
& Technology - Research Workshop
April 29 - 30, 2004
Risø National Laboratory
Roskilde, Denmark
Thursday 29
14.00-14.30 Welcome and Introduction -
Mads Borup
14.30-18.30 Session 1: Expectation Dynamics in Domains I: Nanotechnology
Osmo Kuusi and Martin Meyer - Leitbilder
and nanotechnology
Hans Fogelberg - The knowledge
culture and the expectations in nanotechnology
16.00-16.30 Group work on domain theme
17.00-18.00 Cake, discussion & coffee
Harro van Lente and Rutger van Merkerk - Tracing
of irreversibilities in the nanotechnology domain - mapping of expectations
and agenda building - The
case of nonvolatile memories based on nanotubes
Cynthia Selin - Time
matters - timescapes in nanotechnology
Friday 30
9.00-10.45 Session 2: Foresight in the Sea of Expectations
Nik Brown - Introduction
to foresight theme
Matthias Weber - The
relationship between foresight and the shaping of expectations
Frans Berkhout - Guiding
visions and technological expectations - sustainability and other normative
frameworks
11.00-13.00 Session 3: Expectation Dynamics in Domains II: Energy
Kornelia Konrad - Visions
and expectations of energy systems, infrastructures and consumer-producer
relations
William McDowall - Forecasts,
scenarios, visions, backcasts and roadmaps to the hydrogen economy
Per Dannemand Andersen - Wind,
hydrogen and other energy technologies - similarities and differences
in expectation dynamics
13.45-15.00 Session 4: Discussion and conclusions on the domain and
foresight themes (lessons for further work)
Group work: key issues, concepts &
conclusions on workshop themes
Discussion, conclusion and further work
15.00 End of workshop
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