Infrastructures, Technologies and Materiality
We focus on processes of developing and deploying technologies and how they materialise in the world around us. This means looking at technologies such as sensors, and how, through their deployment, they change how we perceive, understand, and live in the world. But we also study infrastructures from the perspective of their political rationalities, their managerial techniques, and their material systems. How do they manage to draw together different actors and material objects into more or less stable relations, mediating exchange over time and space? What emotional investments are made into such infrastructures and how are they supposed to support and stabilize wider imaginaries of sociotechnical development, both in science and society?
People
Nina Klimburg-Witjes | Sarah Davies | Esther Dessewffy | Ulrike Felt |
Noah Münster | Carsten Horn | Fredy Mora-Gámez | |
Pouya Sepehr | Susanne Öchsner | Bao-Chau Pham | |
Andrea Schikowitz | Virginia Vargolskaia |
Projects
- Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Austria #2 (BBMRI.at#2) — Societal Engagement: Responsible Research and Innovation in Biobanking
- FutureArctic: A glimpse into the Arctic future: equipping a unique natural experiment for next-generation ecosystem research;
- ICU4Covid: Cyber-Physical Intensive Care Medical System for Covid-19
- Making Europe through and for its research infrastructures (METAFORIS);
- Research Platform: Governance of Digital Practice
- Smart4Health: Citizen-centred EU-EHR exchange for personalised health;
- Valuing, Being, Knowing. Understanding the entanglements of valuation practices and subjectification processes in life science research.