Monthly Online Heartspace Meetings
We try to meet every month through the link below. More info regarding timing is here.
https://meet.jit.si/ESJPMonthlyMeeting
Our Education
Here is a link to the Queens University course on Engineering and Social justice – please feel free to use it in your University.
Engineering and social justice
Our Technical Research and development
Waste for Life One of our current projects in Argentina
Organisations and conferences with similar values
Loka Institute Science and Engineering for a democratic society
Maths and Social Justice
Engineers against poverty
Engineers without Borders Australia
Engineers without Borders UK
Engineers without Borders Canada
Ingenieros Sin Fronteras Colombia
Engineers for a Sustainable World
Science for the People
Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
Films
The Corporation
The Future of Food
Black Gold
Baraka
Videos
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
The Shock Doctrine Short Film
Independent Media
Democracy Now!
People
Bernard Amadei
Ursula Franklin
Brenda Laurel
Linus Pauling
Stan Weir
Norbert Wiener
Recommended Books
Kirkup, Gill, Linda Janes, & Kathryn Woodward. The Gendered Cyborg – brings together material from a variety of disciplines that analyze the relationship between gender and technoscience, and the way that this relationship is represented through ideas, language and visual imagery.
The University of Maine at Orono’s Collection for Engineering, Social Justice and Peace (Fogler Library ESJP Collection)
Quotations
Today, when respectable discourse still requires euphemistic substitutes for “capitalism,” it is difficult to remember that this term was itself a euphemism of sorts, a polite and dignified substitute for greed, extortion, coercion, domination, exploitation, plunder, war and murder. This was the list of grievances compiled by the Luddites in their heroic defense of society. Machine-breaking was simply a strategy and a tactic for correcting these violations of morality and humanity, violations that were later obscured by myths of the market and technological progress.
~David F. Noble, In Defense of Ludism (Progress without People, 1993)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Martin Luther King Jr. (Strength to Love, 1963)
My role as a progressive teacher is not only that of teaching mathematics or biology but also of helping the students to recognize themselves as the architects of their own cognition process.
~Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of Freedom)