Read a short description of the new Advanced study Groups here.

The Seamless Life: Experiences and Visions of a Data-Driven Life

Through the emergence of so-called smart technical solutions, visions of a new 'frictionless' society have been forwarded. This has been described as the seamless life. Here you will find cars that park themselves, refrigerators that know when and what we need to buy, and music devices that tell us what we want to listen to. The Advanced Study Group The Seamless Life: Experiences and Visions of a Data-Driven Life aims to problematize the seamless life as a (technology-driven) vision of the good life by examining the underlying assumptions, experiences, technologies and resistance to the seamless life.

Coordinator:Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren

Digi-Tax

The rapid changing and globalized world calls for in-depth analysis on how to design a sustainable and legitime tax system that finances our future welfare, presently threatened by decreasing domestic tax bases and austerity politics.

The Advanced Study Group Dig-Tax focuses on the needs to adapt the Swedish tax system to new business models based on digital technology, globalization, and sustainability requirements. The aim of the study group is to propose requirements of a sustainable tax system, in a wide perspective, allowing for foreseeability and tax sovereignty when states fear loss of taxing power (tax legitimacy).

Coordinator: Åsa Hansson and Cécile Brokelind