The MCTS focuses on analyzing the conditions and consequences of the technical sciences in thoroughly technologized societies. This includes new modes of technoscientific knowledge production, how technoscience is governed in (technical) universities, and how it is entangled with political funding strategies, industrial applications, and/or the expectations and objections of civil society.
| SCALINGS – Scaling up Co-Creation: Avenues and Limits for integrating Society in Science and Innovation | The European Research Consortium SCALINGS explores the avenues and limits for the wider dissemination and use of co-creation practices across Europe. | Project leader(s) Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer | Period 09.2018 – 09.2021 | future | Funding institution Horizon 2020 | Horizon 2020 | horizon-2020 | Project type Consortium Project | Consortium Project | consortium-project | Themes Co-creation; Open Innovation; Robotics; Urban energy; Autonomous Vehicles; Public procurement of innovation; Living Labs; Co-creation facilities; comparative research | more |
| Evidencing Practice – Practicing Evidence | Evidence in Science, Medicine, Technology and Society. DFG Research Unit 2448 | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Karin Zachmann | Period 2017 – 2020 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Consortium Project | Consortium Project | consortium-project | more | |
| Plastics – Publics – Politics | Plastics and specifically microplastics in the environment are increasingly receiving public attention. Headlines such as “Dangerous mini-poison-bomb” (Focus online, 2012) or “Underestimated Danger – Plastic particles contaminate food” (Spiegel online, 2013) point to an increasing public discourse about microplastics as a potential environmental and health risk. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller | Period 03.2018 – 08.2021 | future | Funding institution BMBF | BMBF | bmbf | Project type Consortium Project | Consortium Project | consortium-project | more | |
| Cultivating Engagement: A Citizen Participation Forum on Vertical Farming | How can citizens shape the development of healthy and sustainable food, and what role should technology play in this process? What methods can engage publics on diverse issues across food, health and sustainability? | Project leader(s) Dr. Mascha Gugganig | Period 09.2017 - 12.2018 | past | Funding institution EIT Food | EIT Food | eit-food | Project type Consortium Project | Consortium Project | consortium-project | more | |
| Public Imaginations of Genome Editing in Livestock | In science and in society, the CRISPR-Cas9 system is currently discussed as revolutionary new genetic technology. The novel technique promises more precise and cost-efficient ways of genetically “editing” the genomes of a wide variety of species. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller | Period 09.2018 – 05.2021 | future | Funding institution Bayerische Forschungsstiftung | Bayerische Forschungsstiftung | bayerische-forschungsstiftung | Project type Consortium Project | Consortium Project | consortium-project | more | |
| Test beds & Living Labs in Energy und Mobility Transitions | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer | more | ||||||||||
| Understanding Regional Innovation Cultures | A Comparison of five German City-Regions and their Adoption of Global Innovation „Best Practices“ | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. S. Pfotenhauer, Dr. A. Wentland | Period 04.2018 – 04.2021 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | |
| Situating Environmental Epigenetics. A Comparative, Actor-Centered Study of Environmental Epigenetics as an Emergent Research Approach in Three Research Fields | Epigenetics explores changes in gene expression that do not result from gene mutation, but from chemical modifications on the DNA. In recent years, such epigenetic modifications have been found to respond to numerous stimuli from the environment – such as toxins, nutrition, trauma or stress – giving rise to the field of ‘environmental epigenetics’. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller | Period 10.2018 – 09.2021 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | |
| Evidence in Citizen Science | Between Non-Certified Expertise, Professional Supervision and Mechanization | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen; Prof. Dr. Sascha Dickel (Uni Mainz) | Period 05/2017 - 04/2020 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | Themes Citizen Science, Participation, Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST), Trust in Science, Digitisation, Transdisciplinarity | more |
| Institutional Reflexivity in Sociotechnical Networks | SFB 768, Subproject A11 | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Tobias Drewlani, Johan Buchholz, Dr. Uli Meyer | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | |||
| METALABs: Making Europe Through And for its LABoratories | This project aims to explore how transnational European research infrastructures have been both a vehicle for, and the beneficiaries of, European integration project. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. S. Pfotenhauer | Period 01.01.2019 – 01.01.2022 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | |
| PROLAB – Living Labs as prototypical milieus | Prototypes are able to make vague but visible statements about future technologies and about how one might possibly interact with them. Moreover, they open up alternatives but are able to direct imaginations along a certain path. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen | Period 09.2018 – 08.2021 | future | Funding institution BMBF | BMBF | bmbf | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | Themes Prototyping, Living Labs, participation, digitalization, health, mobility, futures, materiality, innovation | more |
| Taking Tacit Knowledge into Account by Using Problem Cases as Guidelines in HMI Development | IMPROVE is aiming for developing a more efficient way of providing plant field maintenance in highly complex industrial facilities. Therefore, knowledge based models and devices for data mining and processing are to be created in order to support the facility’s maintenance operators who keep the system running in a good condition. | Project leader(s) TUM Maschinenwesen, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen | Period 01.10.2016 – 31.08.2019 | past | Funding institution H2020 | H2020 | h2020 | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | |
| The Dormant Potential of Neoinstitutionalism | Neoinstitutionalism is one of the leading theories organisation studies. Starting from empirical problems this theoretical approach of Neoinstitutionalism contributed to our understanding of organisations in multiple ways. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | more | ||||||
| Agile Project Management and New Customer Requirements | The project investigates how collaboration between companies is changing in the context of digitalization. It deals particularly with new expectations that customers have against companies and the impact these have within those organizations. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer, Elena Zelesniack | more | |||||||||
| Technoscientific Constitutionalism | This German-American research exchange centered around a joint symposium in Washington DC will explore how science and technology (re-constitute) society through the lens of "technoscientific constitutionalism“. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. S. Pfotenhauer / Prof. Dr. Ben Hurlbut (ASU) | Period 10/2017 - 07/2029 | future | Funding institution DFG - NSF | DFG - NSF | dfg-nsf | Project type Symposium | Symposium | symposium | more | |
| Mediacenters of the Future | In the age of digital media available on the internet users have access to abundant content and need to deal with a vast amount of information. Broadcasters and other media companies are searching for solutions to provide users with relevant content. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Prof. Dr. Dr. Birgit Spanner-Ulmer (BR), Mustafa Isik (BR), Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius (LMU) | Period 2015 - 2017 | past | Funding institution MCIR | MCIR | mcir | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | Themes interdisciplinary, data society, media, sociology of algorithms | more |
| „How Safe Is Safe Enough?“ Practices of Evidence for Technical Safety in Times of Societal Uncertainty | The project aims to analyze practices of evidence concerning technical safety in both German states between the 1950s and the 1980s, using two specific technological fields – automobiles and nuclear power – as case studies. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Karin Zachmann, Dr. Stefan Esselborn | Period 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2020 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes technical safety, risk, nuclear power, automobile, FRG, GDR | more |
| Articulating Metabolic Disease in a Life Course Perspective | Are obesity and related metabolic disorders the result of a lack of self-discipline? This socially and medically widespread assumption is being challenged by medical research findings about the developmental origins of health and disease. | Project leader(s) Dr. Michael Penkler | Period 09.2018 – 09.2021 | future | Project type Postdoc project | Postdoc project | postdoc-project | more | ||||
| Gutes Essen. Ernährungstechnologien zwischen Kultur und Natur | Das Projekt untersucht, wie Grenzen zwischen Natur und Technik ganz konkret dort gezogen werden, wo Natur Gegenstand von Technologien wird: in den Agrar- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften | Project leader(s) Dr. Barbara Sutter | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | more | ||||||
| A Silent Revolution. Infrastructuring Singapore as a Logistics City, 1850-1940 | Port facilities, stockyards, loading docks, railroad tracks, power grids – functional infrastructures form basic units of both modern cities and logistics. In this relationship, logistics is a conditioning force. | Project leader(s) Dr. Felix Mauch | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes Logistische Infrastrukturen, Architekturen und Medien, technische Landschaften, Stadt- und Umweltgeschichte, Technikgeschichten Südostasiens | more | ||
| Of Flies and Men: Global Insect Vector Control Regimes, 1960s-1980s | This study takes as its particular subject of inquiry the circulation of knowledge between malaria and river blindness campaigns and hence the various attempts to control anopheles and black flies by techniques such as large-scale spraying of pesticides, water management and bush clearing. Local contingencies as well as the implementation of environmental protection measures gradually re-casted medical development policies. | Project leader(s) Dr. Sarah Ehlers | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes Insect vectors, environmental intervention, disease control, globality | more | ||
| Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and Technoscience in Canada | Mein laufendes Forschungsprojekt mit dem Titel “Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and Technoscience in Canada” erforscht von Citizen-Science-Projekten verwendete Evidenzpraktiken für Umweltbelastung im Kontext des kanadischen Siedler-Kolonialismus, in dem Evidenzpraktiken dieser Art grundsätzlich umstritten sind. | Project leader(s) Sarah Blacker | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes Health-environment interactions, Environmental Justice, evidence practices, citizen science, politics of measurement, toxicology, relational ontologies, Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) | more | ||
| Innovation Scripts | [Young-Career-Project]In a transdisciplinary effort, existing innovation scripts are put into question and new ones written. | Project leader(s) Dr. Judith Igelsböck | Funding institution Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) | Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) | linz-institute-of-technology-lit | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | more | |||
| Modes of Modelling and Simulation in Artificial Intelligence | The aim of this research project is to provide a systematic and critical reconstruction of the various modes of modelling and simulation in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This reconstruction operates on a conceptual level as well as through empirical investigations into AI research practice. It will thereby help to explain both the heterogeneity and the success of AI. | Project leader(s) Hajo Greif | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes Models, Simulations, Artificial Intelligence, Pragmatism, Science-in-Practice | more | ||
| Appropriating urban space in the TechnoSociety | Making sense of urban growth and vacancy | Project leader(s) Andrea Schikowitz | Period since 2018 | past | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes knowledge practices, controversis, urban planning, appropriation of space, urban vacancy, urban growth, participation, housing, Science Technology Studies (STS) | more | |||
| Traveling Imaginaries of Innovation | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer | Funding institution NSF | NSF | nsf | Project type Third-party funded project | Third-party funded project | third-party-funded-project | more | ||||
| Thinking Evolution – Thinking Life: Evolutionary Theory in the Postgenomic Age | In the modern biological sciences, ‘evolution’ has become the central concept for theorizing life and its transformations on a historical timescale. Beyond biology, the concept of ‘evolution’ has been adopted by thinkers in a range of other scientific and societal fields, and has often been used to explain human behavior and to set standards for counts as normal and natural social orders and conduct. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller (PI), Zinaida Vasilyeva, M.A. | Period Seit 2018 | past | Project type Postdoc Project | Postdoc Project | postdoc-project | Themes Evolution; Extended Evolutionary Synthesis; Scientific controversy; Emerging academic communities; Postgenomic biology | more | |||
| The Experimental Making of the Future of Work | The aim of the research project is to investigate experimental approaches to alternative forms of work. In the context of discourses on Industrie 4.0 and the Future of Work, organizations try to reflect on the meaning of these often-abstract developments in relation to their own actions, and to develop corresponding programs. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer | more | |||||||||
| CISTIPs: Complex International Science, Technology, and Innovation Partnerships | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer | more | ||||||||||
| Digitale Prozesssteuerung zwischen Selbstorganisation und Kontrolle | Arbeit in der sogenannten „Industrie 4.0“ wird stark von digitalen Prozesssteuerungstechnologien geformt. Diese erheben mittels Sensortechnik Daten aus dem Produktionsprozess und generieren automatisch Feedbacks in Form von Anweisungen oder Optimierungsvorschlägen. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer, Simon Schaupp | Funding institution Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | hans-bckler-stiftung | more | ||||||
| Industries without Borders? | The project "Industries without Borders?" was launched as part of the German-Franco Academy for the Industry of the Future as a cooperation between the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Institute Mines-Télécom (IMT) in November 2017. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer | more | |||||||||
| Evidence for Excellence | Academic excellence has become a key notion within science policy discourses in recent years. Many profound reforms in the European academic research landscape have been argued as necessary in order to improve the scientific excellence of different research systems. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller | Funding institution MCTS Labor Engineering Responsibility, TUM Gender & Diversity Incentive Fund | MCTS Labor Engineering Responsibility, TUM Gender & Diversity Incentive Fund | -mcts-labor-engineering-responsibility-tum-gender-diversity-incentive-fund | more | ||||||
| Erfahrungeleiteter arbeitsintegrierter Erwern von digitalen Medienkompetenzen in der berufsbegleitenden Qualifizierung | Das Projekt MEDEA entwickelt arbeitsintegrierte Bildungskonzepte zum Erwerb von berufsbezogenen digitalen Medienkompetenzen beispielhaft für zwei Berufsgruppen – Fachkräfte in der Produktion und im Dienstleistungsbereich. | Project leader(s) Dr. Uli Meyer, Johan Buchholz | Funding institution BMBF, Europ. Sozialfonds | BMBF, Europ. Sozialfonds | bmbf-europ-sozialfonds | more |
