WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 29 the world. In this session, leading figures from different geographic regions will share their experiences and perspectives. 001. STS Journal Roundtables The session will extend engagement with the conference theme, Single Paper Submission “Transnational STS,” and will complement the conference Special Event exhibition, “STS Across Borders.” The session will be moderated 9:00 to 11:30 am by 4S President Kim Fortun. Panelists: Emma Kowal (Australia), ICC: Cockle Bay Room Hebe Vessuri (Latin America), Liu Bing (China), Sharon Traweek ** open to all conference participation / pre-registration (United States), and Leslie Green (South Africa). encouraged to access supporting materials ** 4S’s 2018 Session Organizer: Infrastructure Prize Committee has been awarded to East Asian Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal Chair: (EASTS). The rapid development of EASTS into a journal with Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine international distinction has resulted from both intellectual vision and organizational savvy. The session provides an opportunity to 005. Welcome to Country and Presidential Plenary honor, learn from and leverage the EASTS example. In this prize Single Paper Submission session, editors of diverse STS journals will participate in a Plenary Session dialogue moderated by 4S President Kim Fortun, recognizing the 5:15 to 6:45 pm formative influence these journals will have on the field of STS in ICC: Cockle Bay Room coming years. Roundtable participants will be asked to share their Presidential Plenary delivered by 4S President, Professor Kim goals for their journals, how these goals have changed in recent Fortun years, past and anticipated challenges, and how they are Participant: positioning themselves in initiatives to broaden open access both to Presidential Plenary address Kim Fortun, University of journals and to the data behind journal publications. Dialogue will California Irvine also explore ways diverse STS journals can work collectively and Session Organizer: synergistically, sustaining distinctive styles and missions while Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine moving together to conceptualize and build supporting infrastructure. We will discuss potential roles for 4S in supporting 006. Welcome Reception a rich ecology of STS journals, and how 4S should partner with Single Paper Submission initiatives like Libraria and ELPub, and with movements for open Reception scholarship and a knowledge commons. The 2019 Infrastructure 7:00 to 8:30 pm Prize Committee included Gloria Baigorrotegui (chair), Steve ICC: Cockle Bay Room Jackson and Aadita Chaudhury. 4S Sydney welcome reception featuring DJ Alexandra Lippman Session Organizer: Session Organizer: Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine 002. 4S Graduate Student Journal Working Group Single Paper Submission Rountable Workshop 11:30 to 1:00 pm ICC: Cockle Bay Room We invite interested graduate students and early career scholars to join us for an engaged discussion about the grounding formation of a 4S Graduate Journal. Following from conversations between students at 4S Boston, this meet up will provide an opportunity to brainstorm areas of focus for potential issues and to articulate roles and processes that are needed. Please contact Hined Rafeh at [email protected] for further information. Session Organizer: Hined A Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 003. Making and Doing Sessions Single Paper Submission Special Event 1:45 to 3:30 pm Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences: The Lab Session Organizers: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University Michaela Spencer, Charles Darwin University 004. STS Across Regions: Honoring Diverse Scholarly Traditions Single Paper Submission Special Event 3:30 to 5:00 pm ICC: Cockle Bay Room STS has developed in different ways in different contexts around THURSDAY contribute to the recent call by Kivimaa et al. (2017) for more research on outcomes of transition experiments and, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 30 more specifically, how experiments can lead to more 007. Experiments in Infrastructure I permanent institutional and material changes in urban Papers for Open Panels/Experiments in Infrastructure infrastructure. Open Panel Engineering High-rise Living: An historical perspective on 9:00 to 10:30 am infrastructure experimentation and learning in Singapore ICC: C2.1 (1960-1990) Jane Margaret Jacobs, Yale-NUS College This session is about learning from infrastructure innovations, This paper approaches the theme of infrastructure including, but not limited to, water, energy, and transport. The experimentation and learning through an historical lens, session papers will explore learning from ‘smart’ or innovative using the example of the first 30 years (1960-1990)of infrastructure experiments (variously termed trials, pilots, and modernist, high-rise housing provision in Singapore. This demonstration projects), arising from environmental problems or initial period of state-led experimentation in Singapore other factors. Fitting with the conference theme of Transnational resulted in a radical reshaping of the housing STS, we will be discussing issues regarding the role of power in infrastructure in the country, from attap “kampung” infrastructure experiments, and considering new ways of houses and shop houses to high-rise mass housing. collaborating across contested borders and boundaries to enable Effectively, this period of rapid and radical housing more just transitions. The session will address pertinent questions change was a nation-wide infrastructure and social related to learning and infrastructure innovations: Who is learning experiment. This paper focuses both on the mechanisms what from infrastructure experiments, and with what outcomes? of internal feedback (e.g. social and engineer surveys, Where are these experiments emerging (geographical location, quality control mechanism) and international learning type of organization)? What is the effect of learning and (e.g. study tours and commercial supply partnerships) that knowledge exchange (in development of new standards, policies, were established during this period. These mechanisms etc) arising from experiments? Who leads infrastructure worked to align three important components of this large experiments, and who benefits? This session contributes to a technological experiment: the emergent built growing area of interdisciplinary scholarship regarding the infrastructure itself, the opinions of those it housed, and mobility of policy and knowledge about infrastructural the specifications of component technologies (such as experiments, and its relation to governance. lifts). The paper draws on archival and oral history work Participants: with engineers and social scientists who worked in Directionality in urban infrastructure experiments: Insights from Singapore’s Housing Development Board over this the Resilient Melbourne Strategy. Sebastian Fastenrath, period. University of Melbourne; Lars Coenen, The University of Household energy storage revolution: Agents of change - the Melbourne; Brendan Gleeson, The University of Melbourne; influence of intermediaries in catalysing transition. Veryan Kathryn Davidson, The University of Melbourne Hann, University of Tasmania; Kate Crowley, University of There is a broad consensus around the urgent need for Tasmania more resilient urban infrastructure to cope with chronic This paper argues intermediaries are central to the stresses and acute shocks in cities. Established principles acceleration of an orderly STS transition of the electricity and practices in urban policy and planning have been network in Australia — and that intermediaries may either criticized for being inadequate in designing and delivering catalyse and accelerate, or ‘bottleneck’ change. Internet- the infrastructure innovation required for resilient cities. enabled residential batteries will likely be part of Instead, collaborative experimentation is considered key Australia’s future hybridized grid, and this is being tested in governing transition pathways to more resilient urban through a 35-household smart-battery pilot, known as infrastructures (e.g. Bulkeley et al. 2011, Frantzeskaki et CONSORT, funded by ARENA. The householders and al. 2017). Here, experimental projects are supposed to three battery-system installers ( as intermediaries) were destabilize and disrupt established structures and interviewed about the implementation (installation) institutional logics of incumbent systems of urban process. However, despite the appreciation of early infrastructure provision and to catalyse path-breaking successes from an engineering and computing point of infrastructure innovation. Such projects are driven by view; the installation process itself was more fraught than interactive learning between private, public and academic expected from the householder, or social acceptance point sectors brought together through global city networks of view. The surprising level of influence of such as the Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘100 Resilient intermediaries was observed through interview, as a form Cities’. On the other hand, scholars have labelled these of flexible & ad-hoc problem-solving. For example, network initiatives as ‘philanthrocapitalism’ and criticised installers provided trusted knowledge and householder their approaches for the neoliberal tendencies of