Karl Palmås(Gothenburg)
Associate Professor, Researcher and Writer
Contribution Lukas/Markus by Kalle Sanner
Karl Palmås, an associate professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, wrote the essay ‘Jordfäst’ (Earthbound) for Lukas/Markus by Kalle Sanner.
Karl Palmås (b. 1976) is a researcher at the Division of Science, Technology and Society. Originally trained as an engineer, he holds a doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and has worked as associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology since 2012. Karl studies and teaches on the relation between the things we build and the things we think – how technological designs interrelate with social imaginaries.
Palmås has been a member of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL) program committee for the governance of publicly funded activities, in the Regional Ethical Review Board in Gothenburg, in the expert group of the Digitalization Commission, in the steering group for the Meeting Place Social Innovation, and in the reference group for the former Nutek’s investigation on capital supply to social enterprises. During the European Parliament election in 2014, Palmås was listed 24th on the Green Party’s ballot.
Karl Palmås contributed an essay to Kalle Sanner’s Lukas/Markus (LL’Editions & Blackbook Publications).