Last Stop: Paris! Posted on July 13, 2023July 13, 2023 by Leonidas Ananiadis The European journey of the POIESIS Public Deliberative Workshops ended last Friday (July 7th) in Paris The Workshop was held at the Maison de la recherche of the Sorbonne University. The organization and recording were partly handled by n-clique, a company set up by former students from the Sociology department of Sorbonne University, while Michel Dubois of CNRS, senior research fellow of GEMASS and POIESIS WP3 Leader gave the introductory speech. Despite the limited number of participants the workshop went very well, with very interesting and rich discussions and the empirical cases helped decisively in that purpose. As mentioned before, this was the last stop of a fascinating journey throughout seven great European cities (Athens, Aarhus, Lisbon, Berlin, Valencia, London and Paris) where people interacted and discussed about topics regarding trust in science, research integrity, citizen science issues and a lot of more at the face of the climate change crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The British Workshop: A huge success! Posted on July 11, 2023July 11, 2023 by Leonidas Ananiadis 42 people of various backgrounds from around the UK participated in the last weeks’ POIESIS London Public Deliberative Workshop The London team organised public deliberations in the Marchmont Citizen Centre located in Central London, where no less than 42 participants engaged in discussions about trust in science. The sessions were moderated by Bankole Falade and Martin W Bauer; Hannah Bunt was observing the process in the background and taking notes. Martin Bauer also stood in as ‘expert’ for technically specific questions that might arise on the topic. After touching on various issues and filling in two questionnaires, all discussion produced a card sort of lining up ‘factors of trust in science’. Participants witnessed diversity in their ‘distance from science’, which reflected in the way they think and talk about ‘trust in science’, in general and in relation to Climate Change and the Covid19 pandemic. It turned out, participants were happy to be able to talk about their pandemic experience in particular. Also, it was evident that people were taking part in a discussion about a topic they really cared about, leading to very engaged discussions.