Although the Square Kilometer Array is by now an “old acquaintance” for the big community of scientists and technologists involved, this huge project is not as well known to the public of non-experts. The work package for outreach in the Italian PRIN-INAF project FORECast (FORmation and Evolution of Cosmic STructures with Future Radio Surveys) aims at presenting it in all its strength, in a...
The GENESIS-SKA project is supported as PRIN-INAF and its main goal is to study dust evolution, planet formation, and pre-biotic chemical complexity, in the context of preparation of SKA Key Programmes. The funding PRIN-INAF also accounts for communication, public and industrial outreach of the projects’ scientific goals and results. This is the reason why the project has a dedicate outreach...
This presentation explores questions, opportunities, and challenges connected to the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project from a social science perspective. It draws on interviews conducted in South Africa, Italy, and the United Kingdom with SKA scientists, engineers, project managers and other relevant stakeholders, and aims at building an interdisciplinary dialogue between...
