The information below is subject to change as the course is still being developed. The information will be made definite in June 2026.
Responsible Research and innovation (RRI) are often portrayed as apolitical activities that have clear benefits for society at large. This course takes a somewhat different position and argues that R&I are best understood as performative activities that enact new worlds. By addressing the concerns of specific stakeholders, historically these are imperialist states and the military-industrial complex, RRI efforts have tended to enact better worlds for the rich and the privileged while disregarding the interests of disadvantaged peoples (the poor, non-white) and non-human species.
Sustainability science seeks, often explicitly, to bring about better worlds that are more just for a far broader range of stakeholders. Doing so entails including these stakeholders in RRI projects thereby co-producing knowledge in the hope to bring about or contribute to a particular sustainability transition.