Research and Teaching Projects

Research Projects

Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik

Society as Experiment: Social Epistemology, Cooperative and Communal Practices in the Early 19th Century

PI of the Konstanz Centre for Human | Data | Society

PI of the planned SFB 1614 "Serious Gaming: Taking Gaming Seriously" Subproject C03 "Ludification of Work in Historical Perspective", submitted in May 2023

The subproject explores work/play relationships in a historical perspective and focusses on the demarcations of working from playing. To do so, it suggests the reconsideration of two key constellations: a) the establishment of the modern concept of work, its impact and underpinnings by discussing counter designs and critique in relation to transgressive concepts and practices of work in the early 19th century (WP1/WP2) and b) digital working worlds in the 20th/21st century that have embraced the usability of playing (WP3). Based on this structure, the spaims to demonstrate the mutual reflection of working/playing from early socialism of contemporary digital capitalism.

PI of the interdisciplinary research initiative Transforming Infrastructure: Cultural Perspectives

Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik/Dr. Emeline Fourment

Between Politics and Spirituality. The Production and Institutionalisation of Body Knowledge in the West German Women's Health Movement (1970s˗1980s).

Dr. Franz L. Fillafer

Positivist Worldmaking. Universal Science and Global Society in the Age of Empire

Dr. Martin Herrnstadt

Juvenile Imagination and the Government of the Soul: Observing and Directing Imagination at the Intersection of youth welfare and youth research ca. 1920-1960

Dr. Claudia Roesch (habilitation project)

Engineers of Utopia. Knowledge, Labor and Intentional Communities in the Americas of the “Second Slavery”