WPI Professors Robert Krueger (SSPS), Laureen Elgert (SSPS) and Yunus Doğan Telliel (HUA) along with PhD candidate Zahra Zarei Ardestani (SSPS) will be our featured authors in Gordon Library’s next event in For a Change - our series of conversations with WPI authors. This year’s series features books that challenge us to change how we think, and the choices we make.
Please join us on Thursday, March 26 at 1 pm in the Gordon Library Conference Room (303) for a panel conversation about Decentering Science & Technology in Global Development: Co-Designing for Community Sustainability (2026, De Gruyter) led by the book’s editor and co-author, Prof. Krueger. He will be joined by a few of his fellow co-authors featured in the book: Prof. Elgert (Chapter 2), Prof. Telliel (Ch. 3, 4 & 8) and PhD candidate Zahra Zarei Ardestani (Ch. 8). This book is Volume 6 in the Integrated Global STEM series, which is also co-edited by Prof. Krueger.
The publisher writes: “Engineering and scientific interventions, especially Western interventions, in societies in the majority world, can no longer be left to the scientists and engineers coming from the west or channeling western ideals. In addressing these concerns, this volume brings new thinking, new concepts, and processes and procedures from a variety of disciplines and analytical lenses. It introduces a new development practice, from education to ideation and implementation to assessment. The book offers critical and compelling insights into what is wrong with current hegemonic paradigms of development and the concepts and tools we can use to advance a different direction that promotes dignity, community self-sufficiency, and sustainability."
Whether you are an engineer involved in technology for society projects or a social scientist/policy maker who seeks to push the limits of technology in the public interest, be sure not to miss this thoughtful and important discussion. A link to the event is available here.
We look forward to your joining us for this exciting program – light refreshments will be served!
Please note that the Gordon Library’s elevator remains out of service; visitors who wish to avoid using the stairs are welcome to let us know at library@wpi.edu so that we can invite you to join us via Zoom.
