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Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Melanie Jaeger-Erben

Juliane Rettschlag

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Juliane Rettschlag holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Social Sciences (Leipzig) and a Master of Arts in Philosophy of Technology (Berlin). Her work examines ethical and societal issues relating to socio-technical change; she also conducts research into educational innovations.

Juliane Rettschlag has been a research assistant on the collaborative project LausitzLabs – Digital and Maker Education for Structural Change since 2026. Prior to this, she worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Berlin Ethics Lab at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2021 to 2026, she was the coordinator of the Berlin Ethics Certificate – an inter-university certificate programme for students of all disciplines – which was offered by the Berlin University Alliance and as part of the ENHANCE programme of the European Universities of Technology Alliance. She was a visiting researcher at the IAS-STS in Graz, Austria. Juliane Rettschlag is a certified democracy educator and runs workshops on ethics and responsible research and innovation (RRI; integrated ethics, methods of inter- and transdisciplinarity).

In her doctoral thesis, she is investigating the cooperation between academia and practitioners (transdisciplinary research) in the context of value conflicts arising from the mobility transition. 

Publications

  • Machine Behaviour, in: Behaviour – A History of Knowledge about Behaviour. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2025, pp. 253–276, doi.org/10.1515/9783110740813.
  • The Berlin Ethics Certificate: Conceptualising Interdisciplinarity as a Core Building Block of Ethics in Engineering Education, with Ammon, Sabine; Kljagin, Alexandra; Vortel, Martina, in SEFI 2022 Proceedings.
  • Chaos in Computer Games, in: Chaos: On the Constitution, Subversion and Transformation of Order, Miriam Amin, Elisabeth Niekrenz & Friedrich Weißbach (eds.), Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2018. 
  • Freifunk – Connecting in Solidarity, in: Solidarity Economy as a Way of Life: Portraits of Berlin’s Alternative Economic Actors, Bastian Ronge (ed.), Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016.

Research

Juliane Rettschlag is a research assistant on the collaborative project LausitzLabs – Digital and Maker Education for Structural Change. As part of the accompanying research, she is investigating the conditions under which educational innovations have a lasting impact in a region undergoing transformation and become more accessible to young people.

Key research areas and interests:

  • Educational innovations: approaches and impact of educational innovations; maker education, education for democracy, ethics of new technologies
  • Sociotechnical transformations: conflicts arising from transformation, including those relating to mobility, urban/rural spaces and structural change
  • Technology and society: critical pragmatism; integrated technology ethics and technology assessment; social philosophy
  • Impact research and inter- and transdisciplinary approaches

 

Courses:

  • Normativity in Transdisciplinary Research on Sustainability Transformation. Teaching module as part of the seminar: Science, Technology and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches. University of Technology Graz, 18 March 2026.

  • Transdisciplinary Project – Equitable Mobility in the Climate Crisis. With Merle Genc, summer term 2025, winter term 2024/25; summer term 2024, TU Berlin.
  • Introduction to Technology Ethics and Technology Assessment, workshop / teaching assignment for the M.BA. in Sustainable Mobility Management. TU Berlin, winter semester 2024/2025 + winter semester 2025/26, TU Berlin.
  • How do we regulate this? Democratic Public Sphere in Digital Societies, with Nina Goretzko, winter semester 2024/25, TU Berlin.
  • Berlin Ethics Certificate – BEC Basic Module. Winter semester 2021/22; summer semester 2022; summer semester 2023; winter semester 2023/24 (German and English), TU Berlin.
  • Understanding AI and MMI – A Buzzword Decoder, with Nele Fischer, summer term 2021, winter term 2021/22, TU Berlin.
  • Ethical and Social Challenges of New Technologies: Automation, Robotics, AI; with Sabine Ammon; Summer Term 2019, Winter Term 2019/2020, TU Berlin.
  • Open Educational Resources (MOOC): Integrating Ethics in Research, Design and Development, ENHANCE Alliance, 2022.