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2020

Conceptual framework for Energy Justice

This resource concerns a conceptual framework for Energy Justice. This framework should enable us to determine whether certain developments in the energy system can be judged as "just" or ethically justifiable, or not. The framework concerns: distributive justice, where the question is how the benefits and burdens of energy supply and energy use are divided among groups of people. In other words, distributional justice highlights the ways benefits, risks and responsibilities are divided unequally throughout the energy system. procedural justice, which poses the question of how the decision-making process for energy supply works, who has access to and participation in it and in which way. It represents a call to involve all stakeholders in decision making in a non-discriminatory way. This could mean mobilising local knowledge for energy projects, disclosing information about energy consumption to facilitate more ethical and sustainable practices or achieving equal representation in institutions, for instance. justice through recognition: to acknowledge who is being affected by energy decision-making and who is responsible for this. Note that Social, cultural, location and other aspects can structurally influence the exposure to benefits and burdens and the capacity to deal with them.. Recognition is also a precondition for trust and involvement.

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Aad Correljé

June 20, 2022

Tinkering with healthcare technologies. Interactive redesign of bio-medical artefacts from a crip techno-science perspective

In this exercise, students will engage with ethical issues in the design and innovation of healthcare technologies through a hands-on interactive tinkering workshop. Using a wide variety of scrap materials, students collaborating in small groups will alter existing healthcare technical artefacts in an effort to promote the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and social justice, and to question ableist assumptions surrounding medical artefacts. The interactive hands-on workshop is deepened through an engagement with stakeholder testimonials as well as crip techno-science and Warm Technology theories.

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Janna van Grunsven, Samantha Marie Copeland, Trijsje Franssen, Lavinia Marin, Cristina Richie

2020

4As framework

This resource concerns an introduction to the ‘4 As’: Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability (environmental and social) with energy justice and inclusiveness as running example. Balancing these four critical and interdependent criteria is a recurrent challenge for individuals and society as a whole. The materials are part of the MOOC Inclusive Energy Systems offered by TU Delft. The document provides links to: The MOOC A general introduction to the 4 A framework A more detailed introduction respectively Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability (environmental and social) with energy justice and inclusiveness as running example.

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Margot Weijnen

January 2, 2019

Street Law - Lesplan Vooroordelen en Social Justice

Dit is een lesplan voor een Street Law bijeenkomst waarin studenten leren vooroordelen bij zichzelf te herkennen en te toetsen en met elkaar praten over hoe zij reageren op vooroordelen ten aanzien van henzelf, hoe zij zouden willen reageren en hoe anderen reageren. Daarnaast onderzoeken zij hoe zij in de toekomst kunnen bijdragen aan (sociale) rechtvaardigheid.

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Marcelle Reneman, Johan Lievens

April 27, 2021

The use of biotechnologies for enhancement: genetic engineering and social ethics

This case invites students to explore, debate, and find consensus on ethical aspects of biotechnologies related to enhancement. Students are provided with an overview of some ethical views on enhancement which they use as inspiration for two debates: one that focuses on questions of moral luck vs. distributive justice in deciding whether or not to pursue genetic engineering, and a second that asks if scientific progress should be subject to limitations based on its carbon emissions impact.

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Cristina Richie

November 8, 2021

Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges

Learn about today's urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the Global South. We will debate the benefits associated with three different themes, going beyond traditional urban strategies and policies: Spatial justice - Having fair, inclusive and healthy urban contexts is one of the greatest challenges of cities in emerging economies. Housing Provision and Management - Increasing demand in the Global South calls for alternative approaches in housing provision and management. Sustainable Urban Transitions - In order to transition from our current (unsustainable) system towards a fair and sustainable future we need to pay attention to the social, economic, and cultural context. In the course, we will address questions such as: Is the 'just city' framework applicable to cities with extreme socio-economic inequality? Can community-led housing initiatives provide effective solutions for households in need? How can the transition towards an environmentally sustainable future also be socially just? In this architecture and urban planning course, academic urban planning expertise from TU Delft is used to formulate possible answers to these questions, and is applied in a range of challenging case studies from Latin America, MENA region, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, , among others. This course offers you a new perspective to understand and analyse the urban challenges of the Global South. Through a combination of short theoretical lessons, presentation of case studies, testimonies from practitioners and practical assignments you will also learn how to develop a critical perspective about your own urban environment and how to translate this knowledge into analytical tools and innovative urban solutions.

Various Experts

September 1, 2022

Syllabus Political Epistemology (master course, PPE master)

This is a syllabus for the course Political Epistemology – Knowledge and in Markets and Democracy from the PPE master of Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. It contains the course structure and assigned readings for the 8 week course. The course summary reads as follows: We live in societies marked by the interplay of capitalist markets and democratic political structures. Both markets and democracies are mechanisms of social coordination in which the aggregation of knowledge plays an important role. But what is knowledge in the first place? Does it make sense to refer to notions of “truth” or “facts” in political contexts? And how does the use of knowledge work in different social spheres? While markets aggregate certain forms of knowledge through the price mechanism, democracies attempt to do so through deliberation and voting. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these mechanisms, and how well do they work for different forms of knowledge? What difference does it make that we live in a “digital age”? And last but not least: how do the ways in which societies deal with knowledge influence the delicate interplay between capitalism and democracy?

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Lisa Maria Herzog

October 7, 2019

Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology - 2nd edition

This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks? The book explains: •The concept and importance of responsible innovation for society •Key ethical concepts and considerations to analyse the risks of new technologies •Different types of innovation (e.g. radical, niche, incremental, frugal) •Roadmap for Responsible Innovation by Industry •The concept of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) It includes a link to all the web lectures as well as case studies ranging from care robots and nuclear energy to Artificial Intelligence and self-driving vehicles.

Open (Access) Text Book

Joost Groot Kormelink

2017

Responsible innovation: From MOOC to book

This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks? The book explains: • The concept and importance of responsible innovation for society • Key ethical concepts and considerations to analyse the risks of new technologies • Different types of innovation (e.g. radical, niche, incremental, frugal) • Roadmap for Responsible Innovation by Industry • The concept of Value Sensitive Design (VSD) It includes a link to all the web lectures as well as case studies ranging from care robots and nuclear energy to Artificial Intelligence and self-driving vehicles.

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Joost Groot Kormelink

January 1, 2001

Impact of Empire: Volume 1 | Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire

The title of this volume is ‘Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire’. The papers contained in this volume focus on all three of these themes, within the context of the impact of the Roman empire upon the regions it dominated. The papers contained in the first part of the volume concentrate on appointment policies, career structures and the impact of military presence and recuitment, esp. in border provinces, in the period of the Principate (27 B.C. – A.D. 284). In the second part of the volume the reader will find papers on Roman jurists, administrators, and bureaucrats and articles about administrative procedures, the administration of justice, rescripts and the influence of learned juridical treatises in various regions of the Roman empire. The last section of the volume presents contributions on the impact of the Roman imperial administration and appointment policies on communal rights and politics, the composition of local councils, local administrative structures, Romanisation, and social mobility of regional and local notables in various provinces of the Roman Empire.

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Lukas de Blois