How does a technical object modify the way in which we interact? How do our relations change with the introduction of new technologies? Can our everyday routines prevent the diffusion of new products? What is the impact of major infrastructural projects on our everyday lives and on our territory? Do working practices influence the way a design project is conceived and carried out? If we think about common innovations such as the substitution of the moka with coffee-capsules machines, the diffusion of the Wii console, the use of Tinder, the diffusion of various system for the separate collection of garbage or the construction of wind farms, those above are questions that we continuously raise, albeit in most cases implicitly. The course "Technology and innovation in everyday life. The Social Study of Science and Technology" (fka, "Science and technology studies") intends to introduce students to approaches and methods enabling to look for answers to these questions in a systematic, rigorous and verifiable ways. Asking such kinds of questions and finding possible answers enable engineers, designers, architects and planners to start to place what they design in the everyday life of those who will use, enjoy or undergo, assess, regulate, manage, repair and maintain what they design. Thus engineers, designers, architects and planners can take into account in their design a broader network of actors and relations at the same time affected and affecting what they design. More specifically, the course aims at providing students with competences enabling them to take into account, describe, compare and discuss the ways in which design projects can influence interpersonal as well as intercommunity relations and, on the other hand, how such interpersonal and intercommunity relations can influence a design project. The course consists then in an introduction to Social Studies of Science and Technology or, more shortly, Science and Technology Studies (STS) focused on design – broadly intended – as a topic of investigation and on those methodological tools, coming from social sciences, which can be integrated within engineering, architectural, product or communication design and territorial planning projects. The course will thus enable students to take into account the complexity of what they (will) contribute to design. Two will be the inquiry methods on which the course will focus: ethnography and controversy mapping. The ethnographic method consists in the direct observation of people’s practices within their lifeworld. Ethnography will be tackled as ethnography of designing practices, as well as ethnography of the life of artifacts. Controversy mapping will be tackled as a tool in order to highlight the negotiating character of innovation and to describe specific situations where such negotiations take place. Topics tackled along the course will be: the relations between science, technology and society; artifacts’ capacity to act and produce effects and the ways in which all that can be described through the notions of script and de-scription; the biography of artifacts and the way they become part of people's everyday lives (Domestication Theory); the role of users in these processes; the tracking, analysis and mapping of design controversies; the relavance of gender in relation to technology; the shared management of innovation processes considering issues like the relations between experts and lay experts, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Technological Assessment and especially Constructive Technological Assessment (CTA), Social Acceptance of Technologies and Infrastructures. These issues will be tackled through three approaches: Social Construction of Technology (SCOT), the Theory of Social Practices (TSP) and, especially, Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The course will address the various topics mainly through case studies – some introduced and discussed in class, other deepened through readings – and through home and class assignments, such as: comparison and schematization of articles; short descriptions of technical objects’ use through ethnographic observations; description of the social relations inscribed in technical objects; mapping of design controversies.