Science Making and Scientific Literacy as Human Rights. Identifying an Archimedean Point

Abstract

The content of the Right to Science is changing. After the Second World War it was defined as a right “to share in scientific advancement and its benefits”. Since 2012, it has started to widen to a more open interpretation: “opportunities for all to contribute to the scientific enterprise and freedom indispensable for scientific research”. The paper provides considerations about the importance of scienceability and participative architectures, the new epoch of science literacy and the paradigm of lifelong research. Let alone it is not about acquiring new rights – but winning back a long-time existing role as people’s science.