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Department of Culture and Learning

TANTlab - The Techno-Antropology Research Group

The research group TANTlab investigates key processes of social and technical innovation that are critical to the challenges facing contemporary and future societies.

Department of Culture and Learning

TANTlab - The Techno-Antropology Research Group

The research group TANTlab investigates key processes of social and technical innovation that are critical to the challenges facing contemporary and future societies.

The research group TANTlab investigates key processes of social and technical innovation that are critical to the challenges facing contemporary and future societies.

We contribute to the interdisciplinary fields of science & technology studies, anthropology of technology and computational social science and humanities. 

We work experimentally with fieldwork methods, design interventions, and digital/computational methods to engage users, publics, and partners in exploring dilemmas, controversies, and paths to sustainable and desirable futures.

We contribute to the interdisciplinary field of STS with investigations of public controversies around new science and technology, with experiments that engage stakeholders in design interventions and datafication of their matters of concern, and with anthropological reflections on the ongoing reconfiguration of our socio-technical world in the anthropocene era.

Part of this work is to develop new digital and computational methods. Our goal is to create data navigation in ways that support qualitative research interests. Our version of data science is thus both anthropological (in the sense that it pays close attention to the socio-technical situations of in which data is constructed and aims to retool conventional ethnographic methods) and participatory (in the sense that it invites users into processes of harvesting, curating, and visualizing big social data.

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The Techno-Anthropology Research Group
Torben Elgaard Jensen, Head of Research Group
Aalborg University Copenhagen
A. C. Meyers Vaenge 15,
Building A, Room: 2-3-312
2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark

Phone: (+45) 9940 3394,
Mobile Phone: (+45) 4077 9596
tej@ikl.aau.dk
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The research group hosts the Techno-Anthropology Lab (TANTLab) at AAU-CPH - an award-winning digital methods lab with a strong interdisciplinary background in science and technology studies. Many of the group’s research projects are conducted in collaboration with the lab. The Lab offers a hands-on workspace to develop innovative approaches to the study of science and technology in society.

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