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.
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| Toxic Entanglements. A Situated Analysis of Epigenetic Knowledge Production in Environmental Toxicology | The ongoing process of the molecularization of environmental toxicology has challenged longstanding dogmas of the field. Focusing on the object of toxicity, the project examines how the adoption of an environmental epigenetic approach changes established notions of the field asking how toxicity is “made to matter” (Murphy 2006) and with what consequences for the perception of health and disease. | Project leader(s) Sophia Rossmann | Period Since 2018 | past | Project type | phd | more | |||||
| TrustMLRegulation – Managing Trust and Distrust in Machine Learning with Meaningful Regulation | Regulation and governance is crucial for managing trust and distrust in Machine Learning. Yet, how to implement governance for machine learning still is unclear. The project investigates what “meaningful regulation” means on a technical, social and political level by mapping current regulatory models and test selected approaches in an experimental setup. The results of the project will not only be disseminated scientifically, but also used for public engagement workshops and policy recommendations. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Diepold, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth | Period 15.10.19-31.10.20 | past | Funding institution TUM IEAI | TUM IEAI | tum-ieai | Project type | -third-party-funded-project | Themes AI, Regulation, Software Engineering, Sociology, STS | more | |
| Human centric innovative approach and training for the management of human Resources through the Integration of the Next Generation of AI technologies (HIRING) | The project aims to prepare the current and next generation of human resources manager to the integration of artificial intelligence tools in their position. It's objectives are: training the HR managers and students to the digital transformation to come in their work environment, valuing fair and responsible soft skills for implementing AI technologies at the work place and promoting a more open-minded HR generation opened to atypical career pathways. | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth | Period 09.2019-08.2022 | future | Funding institution EU ERASMUS+ | EU ERASMUS+ | eu-erasmus | Project type | third-party-funded-project | Themes AI, HR, innovation, responsibility, education, regulation | more | |
| Coding Public Value: Public Service Media and Software for the Common Good | The project Coding Public Value focuses on the development and evaluation of methods for responsible software engineering for the common good and corresponding institutional, political and organizational frameworks for public-service media platforms. How can legal, political and user-oriented requirements of public media be translated into requirements, methods and quality assessment practices for the engineering of software and which institutional, political, and organizational requirements have to be implemented in order to operate public service media platforms on the foundation of such public service-oriented software engineering? The project combines Science & Technology Studies, Media and Communication Research, Legal Studies, and empirical Software Engineering in an interdisciplinary collaboration. | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniel Mendez, Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Period 01.01.2020 - 31.03.2023 | future | Funding institution bidt | bidt | bidt | Project type | third-party-funded-project | Themes Public Service Media, Software Engineering, Platforms, Infrastructures | more | |
| Thinking Machines: The History, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence | International lecture series in Summer Term 2020, hosted by Digital Media Lab @ MCTS and the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology at Deutsches Museum | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, PD Dr. Hajo Greif, PD Dr. Rudolf Seising | Period 01.01.2020–31.12.2020 | past | Funding institution Bayerische Forschungsallianz | Bayerische Forschungsallianz | bayerische-forschungsallianz | Project type | third-party-funded-project | Themes Artificial Intelligence, History of Technology, Philosophy of Technology | more | |
| Constructions of Gender in Sexrobotics | As a disruptive technology, sex robots will not only fundamentally change individual sexual behaviour but will also break up much broader traditional dichotomies (man/woman, man/machine, nature/culture, etc.). The project analyses their conception and technology design from a queer-feminist, neomaterialist and critical-posthumanist perspective and explores their potential for socio-technological innovation beyond anthropomorphic stereotyping. | Project leader(s) Dr. Tanja Kubes | Project type | post-doc-project | more | |||||||
| Responsible Robotics (RR-AI). Tracing Ethical and Social Aspects of AI-Based Transformations in Healthcare Work and Knowledge Environments. (bidt) | The integration of embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) into healthcare and society is expected to deliver major benefits in future decades. However, innovations such as AI operating robots, AI prosthetics, care- or at some point even micro- and nanorobots will come with a number of ethical, social, political and legal challenges, among them ground-breaking shifts in the work cultures and expertise of medical professionals. RR-AI therefore seeks to 1) empirically study the social and ethical and legal dimensions of two novel AI-based technologies – a service robot named GARMI, and a smart arm exoprosthesis – as they are being developed and implemented in healthcare practice; 2) develop a practical toolbox for future interdisciplinary AI innovation, as well as concrete standards and recommendations for responsible integration of embodied AI into healthcare work practice and training; 3) experimentally test these tools and recommendations through interdisciplinary co-creation and work-place integration of embodied AI applications. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller | Period 04.2020 - 04.2023 | future | Funding institution Funding institution:Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für digitale Transformation (bidt) | Funding institution:Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für digitale Transformation (bidt) | funding-institutionbayerisches-forschungsinstitut-fr-digitale-transformation-bidt | Project type | consortium-project | more | ||
| Transforming TechKnowledgies: the Case of Open Digital Fabrication | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen | more | ||||||||||
| Situating Environmental Epigenetics. A Comparative, Actor-Centered Study of Environmental Epigenetics as an Emergent Research Approach in Three Research Fields (DFG) | 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 | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | more | ||
| Public Service Media, Platforms and Digital Infrastructures | The project focusses on the role of public service media in the context of digital platforms. How do public value oriented alternatives to streaming services, content networks, editorial and algorithmic content curation or recommender systems look like? How can they be technically, politically and legally designed? | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth | Period | past | Funding institution Bavarian Public Broadcast | Bavarian Public Broadcast | bavarian-public-broadcast | Project type | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | more | ||
| Secure Agile Software Development. Practices, Processes, Artefacts | The project empirically investigates practices and processes of agile software engineering in small, medium-sized and large teams. It specifically looks at opportunities and limits of the integration of formal and standardizes IT security requirements and develops recommendations and artefacts for the organization and governance of agile software engineering projects. | Project leader(s) PD Daniel Méndez, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Dr. Kristian Beckers (Siemens) | Period Since August 2018 | past | Funding institution Siemens AG | Siemens AG | siemens-ag | Project type | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | Themes Agile Methods, Software Development, Security | more | |
| SCALINGS – Scaling up Co-Creation: Avenues and Limits for integrating Society in Science and Innovation (EU Horizon 2020) | 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 | Themes Co-creation; Open Innovation; Robotics; Urban energy; Autonomous Vehicles; Public procurement of innovation; Living Labs; Co-creation facilities; comparative research | more | |
| Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice (DFG) | Evidence in Science, Medicine, Technology and Society. DFG Research Unit 2448 https://www.evidenzpraktiken-dfg.tum.de/ | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Karin Zachmann | Period 2017 – 2020 | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type | verbundprojekt-consortium-project | more | ||
| Plastics – Publics – Politics (BMBF) | 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 | 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 Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | more | ||
| Public Imaginations of Genome Editing in Livestock (Bayerische Forschungsstiftung) | 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 | verbundprojekt-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 | drittmittelprojekt-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 | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / 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 (DFG) | SFB 768, Subproject A11 | Project leader(s) PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Tobias Drewlani, Johan Buchholz, Dr. Uli Meyer | Period | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | more | ||
| METAFORIS: Making Europe through and for its research infrastructures | 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 Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / 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-consortium-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 | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | more | ||
| Developing a Digital Toolkit to Enhance the Communication of Scientific Health Claims |  The project develops a digital toolkit (Web App/App) for communicating health claims in cooperation with colleagues from linguistics and and public health organizations. We follow the development ethnographically and develop formats and practices of responsible software design and the participation stakeholders and concerned publics. | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Rodney Jones (University of Reading), Jaed Kahn (FoodMaestro), Bridget Benelam (British Nutrition Foundation), PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth | Period 01.2019 - 12.2020 | past | Funding institution EU EIT Food | EU EIT Food | eu-eit-food | Project type | drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project | Themes Nutrition, Recommender, Data, Food | 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 | Period | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | 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 (TUM), Prof. Dr. Ben Hurlbut (ASU), Prof. Christopher Kelty (UCLA), Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen (TUM), Prof. Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan), PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth (TUM), Prof. Malte Ziewitz (Cornell University) | Period 10/2017 - 07/2029 | future | Funding institution DFG - NSF | DFG - NSF | dfg-nsf | Project type Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | 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 Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities | Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities | bavarian-academy-of-sciences-and-humanities | Project type | 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 | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | Period | past | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | Period | past | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Themes Logistische Infrastrukturen, Architekturen und Medien, technische Landschaften, Stadt- und Umweltgeschichte, Technikgeschichten Südostasiens | more | |
| Innovation of food, innovation of Europe? (DFG) | This project explores food innovation in Europe along three different approaches where ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’ food production is articulated and practiced in different ways. | Project leader(s) Dr. Mascha Gugganig | Period 01.2019 – 12.2021 | future | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type | postdoc-projekt-post-doc-project | 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 | Period | past | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | Period | past | Funding institution TUM | TUM | tum | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | Period | past | Funding institution Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) | Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) | linz-institute-of-technology-lit | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | Period | past | Funding institution DFG | DFG | dfg | Project type Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc Project | Postdoc-Projekt / Post Doc 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 | post-doc-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 | Period | past | Funding institution NSF | NSF | nsf | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | more | |||
| Thinking Evolution – Thinking Life: Evolutionary Theory in the Postgenomic Age (MCTS Lab Engineering Responsibility) | 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, PhD | Period Seit 2018 | past | Project type | postdoc-projekt-post-doc-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 | Period | past | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | more | |||||
| CISTIPs: Complex International Science, Technology, and Innovation Partnerships | Project leader(s) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer | Period | past | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | 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 | Period | past | Funding institution Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | hans-bckler-stiftung | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | 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, Dr. Judith Igelsböck, Elena Zelesniack | Period | past | Project type Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | Verbundprojekt / Consortium Project | more | |||||
| Experimente, Reallabore und öffentliche Enaktierungen der Energiewende | Project leader(s) Fransika Engels | Period | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | more | ||||||
| Reconfiguring TechnoNatures in the Case of Food | The dissertation project focuses on (re)configurations of nature and technology in and of food innovations. By looking at the ever-changing relations of nature and technology it investigates a currently specific form of the political, through which TechnoSociety actualises itself. | Project leader(s) Laura Trachte | Period | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | more | |||||
| Translating Futures into Action. On the Organizational Sensemaking of the Future of Work. | In his PhD, Tobias studies how organisations try to shape future forms of work | Project leader(s) Tobias Drewlani | Period | past | Project type | promotionsprojekt-phd-project | more | |||||
| Responsible Innovation in Transnational Governance Settings | Project leader(s) Nina Frahm | Period | past | Project type | promotionsprojekt-phd-project | more | ||||||
| Sociality as Code. Innerworlds of Social Robotics | The robot is a social project that arises from people's ideas about other people. The social models (human factors) used in the development environments are sometimes less context-sensitive than the hopes and goals formulated in the project descriptions of the funding lines may suggest. | Project leader(s) Henning Mayer | Period | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | more | |||||
| Translating Virtual Reality into an Artistic Medium |  Recently, more and more artists have begun experimenting with the medium of Virtual Reality (VR) and producing immersive, computer generated worlds. Further, both known and not as well-known museums, festivals and galleries around the world have started exhibiting VR artwork. | Project leader(s) Mariya Dzhimova | Period 01.2017 – 01.2020 | past | Project type | promotionsprojekt-phd-project | Themes Virtual-Reality, art, aesthetic, field work, STS on art, Virtual-reality-art, artistic medium, artistic practices | more | ||||
| (Re-)Exploring Places: „New Space” as a Material-discursive Sustainability Practice | (Re-)Exploring Places: „New Space” as a Material-discursive Sustainability Practice | Project leader(s) Michael Clormann | Period since 12.2016 | past | Funding institution Exzellenzinitiative, Munich School of Engineering | Exzellenzinitiative, Munich School of Engineering | exzellenzinitiative-munich-school-of-engineering | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | more | ||
| The Molecularisation of Social Adversity. Enacting the Epigenetics of Mental Illness in a Psychiatric Research Laboratory | In my project, I trace how adverse experience is enacted in different experimental set-ups (cell culture, mouse model, human cohorts) and I analyse the different epigenetic accounts of mental illness they produce. | Project leader(s) Georgia Samaras | Period since 2015 | past | Project type phd | phd | more | |||||
| Engineering Problems: On Creating and Transforming Problems for ‘Optimizing’ Solutions in Software Culture |  While it seems quite easy to find it plausible that people come up with clever ideas and solutions for certain problems, given that those problems are actually there, in front of the person who is dealing with the problem, it is quite hard to imagine the process of coming up with, finding, creating a new idea seemingly out of nothing. | Project leader(s) Peter Müller | Period | past | Project type | promotionsprojekt-phd-project | Themes Creativity, Hackathon, Software Culture, Invention, Tech Development | more | ||||
| Infrastructuring European Migration and Border Control. The Logistics of Moria Hotspot, Frontex Joint Operation Reporting Application and Frontex Risk Analysis Unit | The PhD-project examines European migration and border control in Greece in terms of infrastructures and logistics. Drawing on STS and infrastructures studies it understands infrastructures as material set-ups, which interconnect different places with local practices and personnel via standards, technologies and devices in order to organize trans-local flows of entities. | Project leader(s) Silvan Pollozek | Period 2016-2020 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Themes Infrastructures, logistics, Europe, migration and border control | more | ||||
| Interfacing RobotCare. On the Politics of TechnoSociety | The project investigates the emergence and interconnection of robotics and elderly care within the context of European innovation politics. In doing so, it does not presume the (in)compatibility between both sides. Rather it declares the material and discursive conditions, under which they become (in)compatible its primary research object. | Project leader(s) Benjamin Lipp | Period 10.2014 – est. 05.2019 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Themes Social robotics; elderly care; care robots; EU; prototypes; innovation policy; technology transfer; interfacing | more | ||||
| Robots Wanted – Dead and/or Alive: Attribution of in/animacy to robotic technology | Investigating the perception and (re)presentation of robotic technology as in/animate the context of human-robot-interaction, research and development practice, science communication, marketing, media discourse and political discourse. | Project leader(s) Dipl.-Psych. Laura Voss | Period 2014-2019 | past | Funding institution 2015-2017: Andrea von Braun Foundation | 2015-2017: Andrea von Braun Foundation | 2015-2017-andrea-von-braun-foundation | Project type | phd | more | ||
| Rule(s) of Prediction | Contemporary societies increasingly rely on predictions based on machine learning in manifold settings, including media distribution, policing, economy, etc. Many scholars are invested in researching the consequences of these transformations. | Project leader(s) Nikolaus Pöchhacker | Period 2016 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Themes Predictive Analytics, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Epistemology, social order, Institutions | more | ||||
| Translational Medicine as the answer to an “urgency”?! | The materiality and discursiveness of Translational medicine | Project leader(s) Julia Klering M.A. | Period 08.2016 – 01.2020 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Themes Translational Medicine, Innovation policy, Technoscientification of biomedical research, Shift in rationality of medical practice | more | ||||
| Ubiquitous datafication. Regimes of data processing and the struggle for critics | Using digital information to organize (social) life seems to be the preferred modus operandi of contemporary societies. | Project leader(s) Phillip Arms | Period 2016 - 2019 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | more | |||||
| Technologies of Change | The role of technical universities in context of a technological changing society | Project leader(s) Anton Schröpfer | Period 10.2014 - est. 05.2019 | past | Project type Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Promotionsprojekt / PhD Project | Themes Innovation, technical universities, technologies of change, reflexive innovation | more | ||||
| Evidence for Excellence (TUM Gender & Diversity Incentive Fund; MCTS Lab Engineering Responsibility) | 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 | Period | past | 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-amp-diversity-incentive-fund | Project type Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | Drittmittelprojekt / Third-party funded Project | more | ||
| Erfahrungeleiteter arbeitsintegrierter Erwerb 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 | Period April 2017 - March 2020 | past | Funding institution BMBF, Europ. Sozialfonds | BMBF, Europ. Sozialfonds | bmbf-europ-sozialfonds | Project type | third-party-funded-project | more |