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Sebastian Bornschlegl

M.A.

Academic Staff Member
Institute for Social Sciences
Department of Sociology of Technology, Risk and Environment

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Seidenstraße 36
70174 Stuttgart

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In my project work at the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) and in my research at the institute, I examine the city and specifically urban densification as a relational and multiple assemblage. Methodologically, my focus lies on qualitative and mixed methods research; theoretically, I focus on Actor-Network Theory, assemblages, and posthumanism. For the project Augmented Qualitative Analysis (AQA), I am developing novel methods for qualitative data analysis based on the dialogical and transparent use of Large Language Models.

Bornschlegl, S., & Kropp, C. (2025). Co-agency in urban densification: understanding hybrid agents and their consequences for sustainability. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 17(1), 252–267. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2025.2569349

Bornschlegl, S. (2025). The Smart Oasis: Smartification as Process. In M. Gugganig, K. Bronson, & V. Mirza (Eds.), The Smartification of Everything. Critical Perspectives in Sciences, Arts, and Society (pp. 151-154). University of Toronto Press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487556723

Bornschlegl, S., Braun, K., & Kropp, C. (2024). Abschlussbericht. Expertendelphi zu Nachverdichtung und Bauen im Bestand. Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Abt. SOWI V Technik- und Umweltsoziologie. https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-15689

Bornschlegl, S., Krause, P., Kropp, C., & Leistner, P. (2023). Analysis of the Microclimatic and Biodiversity-Enhancing Functions of a Living Wall Prototype for More-Than-Human Conviviality in Cities. Buildings, 13(6), 1393. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061393 

Bornschlegl, S. (2022). Digital Oases in the Analog Desert. Sensing the first materializations of a smart city in Seestadt. Visual vignette presented at the Symposium ‘The Smartification of Everything’ at the University of Ottawa. Retrieved from https://smartificationofeverything.com/artwork/project-one-2snbl-bb6wc

Bornschlegl, S., & Lakits, E. (2022). Potentiale der Negativität. Pride Parades als Infrastrukturen kollektiver Verletzbarkeit. In E. Ernst, S. Schweigler, & G. Vogt (Eds.), Pride. Mediale Prozesse unter dem Regenbogen (pp. 146-156). Wien: Lumen. Retrieved from 10.25365/phaidra.267_11

Bornschlegl, S. (2020). Let us take over! How Jack Stilgoe wants to put the public back into the driving seat of innovation [Book Review: Stilgoe, J. (2020). Who’s Driving Innovation? New Technologies and the Collaborative State. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.] Retrieved from https://blog.sts.univie.ac.at/2020/09/15/let-us-take-over-how-jack-stilgoe-wants-to-put-the-public-back-into- the-driving-seat-of-innovation/

S. Bornschlegl, S. Auer, & E. Lakits (Eds.). (2019). Kollektiv. Manifestationen des Wir (SYN Vol. 17). Wien: New Academic Press.

I am trained interdisciplinarily in both the cultural sciences and the social sciences. At the University of Vienna, I studied Comparative Literature (BA), Theatre, Film, and Media Studies (BA), and Science-Technology-Society (MA). Since July 2022, I have been working as a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair and at the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC), primarily for the project RP18-2 Holistic Quality Model for Extension of Existing Buildings. With the winter semester 2025/26, I began my teaching activities for the Master's program Planning and Participation as well as for the Bachelor's program Social Sciences. Since October 2025, I have also been involved in the research project Augmented Qualitative Analysis (AQA).

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