Research projects
NUMIC 2.0, BMBF 2022-24
The goal of the follow-up project NUMIC 2.0 is to sustainably change the transport behavior of citizens and to empower various stakeholders to have a qualified say in transport planning processes. This results in social impact potentials for activating society, which, with the normative goals of sustainable mobility awareness, radiate out to the ecological impact potentials of sustainable urban planning. The cooperation between municipal administration and science with a strong involvement of the different actors is to strengthen the impact potentials as a transdisciplinary working method.
More information at: https://numic.city/
Chances and limits of participation in science, BMBF 2022-23
Our concern is to sustainably promote the development of competencies and networks as well as the exchange of knowledge in the field of participation in science. As part of the German Year of Science "nachgefragt!" (in demand) 2022, the various scientific communities, actors from the field of participation and, of course, representatives of civil society organizations are invited to map the landscape of participatory formats, define similarities and differences in terms of content, and discuss success factors for participation in research in working groups.
More information at: https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/wissenschaft/chancen-und-grenzen-der-partizipation-der-wissenschaft
Re-Thinking Care Robots, Volkswagen Foundation, 2019-22
Re-thinking research and design practices and developing alternative visions for robots in care require new interdisciplinary collaborations and new methods of design and evaluation. Our interdisciplinary constellation of designers, HCI researchers, robotics researchers, and STS scientists will enable us to rethink from the ground up how caregiving robots should look and "work," applying contemporary design methods in a rapid prototyping and design-driven approach.
More information at: http://www.rethicare.info/
"Mitmach_X - Participatory Design for the IoT," BMBF 2019-21
In our "Stadtlabor" (city lab) we work together with people to implement ideas for a better life in Chemnitz. In the "Stadtlabor" we provide knowledge and technology, build prototypes with the participants and present them to the public. Our goal is to make the ideas, places, problems and proposed solutions of the residents visible and to develop them further together.
The City Lab is currently being continued as part of the CRC "Hybrid Societies." (https://hybrid-societies.org/)
More information at: https://medien.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/stadtlabor-chemnitz/
