13: Dirty Products – responsible consumption: how digitisation changes the role of the consumer
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Hauptschule
Seminar
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in englischer SpracheWhat is responsible consumption? Focusing on food and digital technology, we address four questions during the seminar. (1) What responsibilities do consumers have in purchasing products that do not harm people or the environment? (2) How can we know the ecological and social implications of items (production, distribution, and disposal conditions)? (3) How are consumer freedom and responsibility related? Do consumers have greater freedom of choice than producers? How does digitalization influence consumer freedom and responsibility? (4) What are the limits of responsible consumption in curtailing dirty products? How are consumer and citizen responsibility related? Does digitalization offer new opportunities?
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Prof. Lorenz M. HILTY
Professor, Sustainability Delegate, University of Zurich; Senior Scientist, Technology and Society Lab, Empa, St.Gallen
| 1991 | Ph.D., Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg |
| 1993 | Co-founder, Universität Hamburg-spinoff, Institut für Umweltinformatik Hamburg GmbH |
| 1992-1993 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen |
| 1996 | Habilitation "Environmental Information Processing", Universität Hamburg |
| 1996-1998 | Researcher and Project Manager, Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm University, Ulm |
| 1998-2000 | Professor of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland |
| 2000-2004 | Head, Research Programme "Sustainability in the Information Society", Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen |
| 2004-2011 | Head, Technology and Society Lab, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen |
| Since 2010 Professor of Informatics and Sustainability, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Zurich |
Dr. Laura RAYNOLDS
Co-Director, Center for Fair & Alternative Trade; Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
| 1993 | Ph.D, Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 1993-1994 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University - State University of New York, Binghamton, NY |
| 1994-2000 | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 1999-2005 | Co-Director, Fair Trade Research Group, Colorado State University |
| 2000-2006 | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| since 2005 | Co-Founder; Co-Director, Center for Fair & Alternative Trade, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| since 2006 | Professor, Department for Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
