The Fifth Order of Design by Mariana Fonseca Braga

“…This comprehensive view is critical to tgetting to grips with global challenges (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) since the shift towards sustainability needs to address the root causes of systemic and interrelated problems that cannot be overcome by reactive marketing and technocratic approaches. Implications for design value, education, skills, and ways of designing are pointed out. …”
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“Sustainable security” through river enlargements: A political ecology of nature-based solutions and flood control in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland by Alexis Metzger, René Véron

“…We argue that legal provisions, the dominance of security concerns and technocratic framings of the project foreclose more substantive political debate on the sustainable future of the hydrosocial territory of the Rhone Valley.…”
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The Public Image of Soviet Science During Franco’s Spain by Ruiz-Castell Pedro

“…Spanish political leaders adopted a technocratic approach to increase the efficiency and economic growth of the State. …”
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Boris Samuel, La production macroéconomique du réel. Formalités et pouvoir au Burkina Faso, en Mauritanie et en Guadeloupe by Boris Samuel

“…Its approach involves a combination of anthropology, the sociology of quantification and the historical sociology of the political.In all three cases studied, the detailed observation of macroeconomic calculation shows that the technocratic ethos is crucial for an understanding of the exercise of power. …”
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The promises and perils of central bank digital currencies by Louis Larue, Clément Fontan, Joakim Sandberg

“…On the other hand, implementing CBDC comes with risks of its own, such as that of creating a “Frankenstein scenario” where too much power is given to unelected technocrats. Our tentative conclusion is therefore that CBDC should be seen as a second-best option, while the primary focus of policy makers should be on the possibility of financial re-regulation.…”
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From Humanizing the Educational Process to Professionally Mobile Specialists Training by T. A. Fugelova

“…For overcoming the technocratic trends, the author recommends to cultivate the value of professionalism in the humanization context.Professionalism is defined by using the «professional service» idea as a «purpose acknowledgment, supertask, even a mission». …”
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Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“…If that were the case, the solution would be to simply open the pipes and build more houses, a regulatory action delegated to technocrats. But as Reinhardt Koselleck reveals, crisis is a concept constructed by special interest groups with the aim of challenging absolute power, enlarging a sphere of popular criticism towards business-as-usual. …”
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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…This study scrutinizes how the technocratic state in Vonnegut’s novel utilizes technology to pacify and disempower the masses, challenging the notion that technology is merely a value-free accumulation of know-how. …”
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La difficile « naturalisation » du causse Méjean by Julien Blanc

“…Our explanation for this failure is that, one the one hand, biodiversity remains a technocratic and highly normative way of designing nature elements and natural processes that doesn’t fit in the breeders “lived environment”. …”
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Consideration of Digital Divide in Societies of Globalised Control (Extension of Social Contract) by Hüseyin Tolu

“…What the current reality is that we cannot escape from a global prison even if we do know we are in one, in this sense, this paper is interested in arguing how the definition of DD leads technocratic reasoning in which societies of globalised control cannot be separated from speculation, accumulation and circulation of technological commodities that actually lead an unspecific but an extension of social contract in any developed or developing nations throughout technological education.…”
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Maastricht Overcome: An Evolving Disconnect Between the ECB’s Power and Independence by Anna-Lena Högenauer, Joana Mendes

“…Many critical voices warned—long before the crisis—that the ideal of highly independent central banks with narrow technocratic mandates would not work in the long term and would come under particular pressure during periods of instability. …”
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REFORMING OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK: VALUE AND NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS by Elizaveta V. Zolotareva

“…Evolution strategy for reforming higher education in the UK during the transition from binary to a unitary system is considered in the context of existing alternative approaches to the choice of strategic priorities, forms and methods of educational process regulation, set out in the policy reports of Lord Robbins (1963), Lord Dearing (1997) and Lord Browne (2010).The contradictory nature of neoliberal policy reforms in the last 25 years is seen as a reflection of tensions between the socioBcultural and economic functions of education, the underlying conflict between technocratic, social and humanistic approaches to solving the problem of higher education to adapt to the new technological and social reality of the twentyBfirst century. …”
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An ecological crisis of reason: using creative and arts-based research methods for exploring affective-emotional life and just transitions by Clifton Evers

“…The arts-based research (ABR) challenges prevailing technocratic and rational frameworks, aligning with ecofeminist Val Plumwood’s call to address the ‘ecological crisis of reason’ that serves to inhibit achieving sustainable futures. …”
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About Problems and Prospects of Humanities and Humanitarian Education in Russia by O. V. Vorobieva

“…It is noted that in this situation it is very important to move away from a predominantly technocratic and economic understanding of the priorities and results of the scientific and technological development of Russia for a historical perspective, to avoid reducing information about the progress of a person, society, and the state to technological and economic criteria; to recognize a special status of Humanities, social sciences, and education as the most important resource confronting the technologically accelerated destruction of nature and society, to view them as a factor of cognition, dialogue and management.…”
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Policies and Strategies for Green Tourism Development of the Jeneberang River Area in Makassar City by Faisal Faisal

“…Operationally, this policy has not been supported by technocratic planning in the form of the Jeneberang River Development Masterplan as a Green Tourism Destination …”
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Contested local power in influencing regional development planning in Nabire Papua, Indonesia by Ch. M. Lewerissa, Edyanto Edyanto

“…The research reveals that the Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) contributes significantly (83.1%) to the development planning process, indicating a strong technocratic influence. However, Bappeda faces challenges including unprofessional human resource management, limited budget and infrastructure, poor administrative organization, and inadequate planning and implementation of community-focused development programs. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows through a Solar Air Heater Having Square-Sectioned Transverse Rib Roughness on the Absorber Plate by Anil Singh Yadav, J. L. Bhagoria

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Organisation management in the digital economy: graduation according to the degree of using digital technologies by A. V. Veretyokhin

“…The author has analysed and summarised approaches to  the interpretation of  the digital economy, has grouped them and allocated as   follows: technocratic, specific, scientific and industrial, industrial and sectoral, information and spatial, evolutionary. …”
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Balancing Technology, Ethics, and Society: A Review of Artificial Intelligence in Embryo Selection by Roberto Aufieri, Francesco Mastrocola

“…The literature reveals that some authors perceive AI as an extension of a technocratic paradigm that commodifies embryos, considering that any embryo selection methods undermine the dignity of human life. …”
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Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress by Witold Kania

“…Then, he provides a critical analysis of the technocratic paradigm embodying the false face of progress. …”
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