Techno-Anthropology and Participation (TAPAR) is an interdisciplinary research group whose key vision is democracy in tech innovation, and our mission is to contribute to participatory, responsible and sustainable technology design, implementation and use. We accomplish this through dominantly socio-technical research of complex issues related to emerging technologies and participatory innovation processes. We focus on health and welfare tech, collaborative and cooperative innovation, as well as green and sustainable technologies. Through empirical and normative studies, we contribute insights into the interaction between humans and technologies grounded in each project’s respective context. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for the future, and we must work together, across disciplines, to find the most representative and sustainable solutions possible.

Changing how we innovate and develop technologies is a large task and is impossible to do alone, nor would we wish to. Therefore, we work on developing new theories and methods for conducting technology assessments, so that we may contribute to the growing body of literature and knowledge used by people around the globe to work towards a more sustainable future.

We are a highly interdisciplinary research group with members from backgrounds such as information technology, anthropology, techno-anthropology, health sciences, philosophy, engineering, etc. We collaborate widely on both a domestic and international level, executing projects involving the European Union, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Danish hospitals and regions, as well as universities across the globe.