TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiments in engagement
T2 - designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building
AU - Selin, Cynthia
AU - Rawlings, Kelly Campbell
AU - de Ridder-Vignone, Kathryn
AU - Sadowski, Jathan
AU - Altamirano Allende, Carlo
AU - Gano, Gretchen
AU - Davies, Sarah R.
AU - Guston, David H.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with science and technology activities. Drawing on literatures from public policy and administration, we outline how public engagement with science and technology might build citizen capacity, before using the notion of capacity building to develop five principles for the design of public engagement with science and technology. We demonstrate the use of these principles through a discussion of the development and realization of the pilot for a large-scale public engagement with science and technology activity, the Futurescape City Tours, which was carried out in Arizona in 2012.
AB - Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with science and technology activities. Drawing on literatures from public policy and administration, we outline how public engagement with science and technology might build citizen capacity, before using the notion of capacity building to develop five principles for the design of public engagement with science and technology. We demonstrate the use of these principles through a discussion of the development and realization of the pilot for a large-scale public engagement with science and technology activity, the Futurescape City Tours, which was carried out in Arizona in 2012.
KW - capacity building
KW - material deliberation
KW - public engagement with science and technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85024871277&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0963662515620970
DO - 10.1177/0963662515620970
M3 - Article
C2 - 26769749
AN - SCOPUS:85024871277
SN - 0963-6625
VL - 26
SP - 634
EP - 649
JO - Public Understanding of Science
JF - Public Understanding of Science
IS - 6
ER -
