Indiscipline as Method: From Telescopes to Ventilators in Times of Covid

There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects in Africa and their social political implications offers important account of the intersection Fourth Industrial Revolution African Studies. We explore this perspective through notion “indiscipline” using Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) South a case which observe methodological technoscience at work. Indiscipline helps frame socio-technical (by)products astrophysics engineering, we present production ventilators for COVID-19 patients example how design mega-science can become entangled with dynamic concerns society. Our conclusion elaborates politics large systems, opening up conversation science society context settings, template experiences SKA National Ventilator Project Africa.