The 3rd annual Conference, hosted by the European University of Technology and organized by the ECT Lab+, brought together experts from different fields to explore ways of inquiry that enrich (non-)positivist ways of knowing and post-structuralist critiques of them.

Given the political, representative and epistemic crises of the current times, there is a need for transdisciplinary responses to overcome siloed thinking of academic fields of study and offer solutions by revisiting questions of speculation at the basis of science, engineering, design and the arts. Speculation can provide analytical, imaginative, political and experimental means as well as inspire the production of artifacts (engineering, design, arts, crafts) to get beyond the current epistemic Krisis. At the very same time, given its role in economics, colonialism and war, speculation (both as Speculatio and Speculum) itself, can and ought be under critique.

Under these premises the interventions at the conference addressed the relationship between technology, epistemology, and design. The interventions were about topics of: