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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:maroon'>MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#943634'>Colloquium <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#943634'>Bridges to Creative Renewal:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Engineers and the "Design Revolution" in 1960s America</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#943634'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'>Matthew Wisnioski, Virginia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'>Commenter, Kelly Moore, Loyola University and NSF STS Program Officer <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Abstract:<span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This colloquium explores engineers’ ambitions to remake society and the character of their profession under the banner of “humane” technology. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, engineers wrestled with criticisms that technology was an out of control force and that they were its willing “organization men.” Reformers in member societies called for renewed ethical codes, radicals protested their role as cogs in a military machine, and conservatives lambasted “intellectual Luddites” in a partisan battle that rocked their profession. But thousands of engineers sought to avoid overt politics in a series of collaborative, networked projects in what Buckminster Fuller called the “design revolution.” I focus on three organizations with very different missions linked by a set of common practices and moral virtues: Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT), Volunteers for International Technical Assistance (VITA), and the Innovation Group. I show that so-called “legitimacy exchanges” to make technology human in the late-1960s were never far removed from partisan conflicts and that they contributed to the engineering profession’s loss of rhetorical command over the meaning of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>technology</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=para style='text-indent:0in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>*****</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please note that we have changed our format for colloquia in STS: Speakers will share precirculated papers, and we will have a commenter to help lead discussion. If you would like to have an emailed PDF of Professor Wisnioski’s<span style='color:navy'> </span> paper, please contact Bianca Sinausky, <a href="mailto:singleta@mit.edu">singleta@mit.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=para style='text-indent:0in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Monday, February 13, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>4pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Located at MIT Building E51-095<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>