Student Research

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Student Research

Student Research Publications, Projects, Presentations

On this page we present our students' research work. They are the result of a way of teaching in which scientific working methods are not only taught in theory, but also trained in practice. At irregular intervals, we publish the best work from seminars, study projects or other student activities on this page. We welcome feedback and suggestions for our page on research-based learning.

Publications

Learning Through Research

The Learning Through Research series contains texts by students, documenting processes as well as methods, meetings and engagment within student research. At the Chair of Technoscience Studies we are...

Projects

Plant Journal

The ethnographic Plant Journal project involves students selecting a specific plant in Cottbus (or elsewhere) to observe and document throughout the semester. Students make regular entries every two...

Picture 1. Ms. Christina Kliem, Curator of the Wendish Museum, giving a welcome addresss at the seminar.

BTU Seminar on Material Culture at Wendish Museum Cottbus

Led by Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz and Dr. Anca Claudia Prodan, the BTU hosted a seminar titled "What Material Culture?" at the Wendish Museum Cottbus on 22 February 2023 with the aim of exploring the...

Aesthetic Imaginaries

This work was created as part of the study project “The Landscape as a socio-technical artifact: looking through the eyes of artists“ in cooperation with the Wendish Museum.

Study Project Carbon 3EX

The industrial EXploitation of the Lausitz brown coal and the EXcavation activities have shaped the whole landscape. The still ongoing levels of EXtraction are the main focus of this study project.

Technical genesis of landscape objects according to Simondon

The seminar “Technology Genesis of Landscape Objects According to Simondon” took place online during summer semester 2020 as a biweekly compulsory course. Introducing Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of...

Repair Atelier

Whoever decided to attend “Ethics and Action” with Prof. Astrid Schwarz and Dr. Baruch Gottlieb at the beginning of winter semester 2019 might have expected a lot from the course, but maybe not that...

Impromptu Design “Discursive Table”

The Chair of Technoscience Studies was founded in Summer Semester 2017, owning several rooms whose usage and interior were to be defined anew. The rooms are situated in a soviet-style prefabricated...

Workshops, Colloquia, and Conferences

International Symposium on Water and Culture

"I represented BTU and Ghana as a speaker in an International Symposium on Water and Culture held on 3 February 2020 in Tokyo, at the Japanese National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)....

Eudaimonia in tension with achievement society and technology

Presentation and master thesis by Viviana Loufs. Colloquium on Technology and Science, summer semester 2023.

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