Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Clusterinitiative „Transforming Infrastructure“

For the past two years, the research initiative „Transforming Infrastructures. Cultural Perspectives” has engaged with the field of infrastructure research. Its proposal to define infrastructures as “support systems of human sociality” considerably broadens the traditional understanding of infrastructure that is restricted to the technical-material and organizational achievements of Western modernity. Considering that all human societies in all times and places have produced and continue to produce support systems of sociality, the initiative is currently reviewing examples and defining potential projects. Its aim is to define an infrastructural approach, a methodology drawing back on the rich tool box of the humanities and social sciences that will allow to define a larger field of research, i.e. “Cultural infrastructure studies.” The talk will give an overview on what has been achieved so far and discuss the prospects of this research initiative.

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Meeting-ID: 915 3170 7702

Kontakt: zkf@uni-konstanz.de