In the first week of May, the SoWi V research team explored exactly this question together with Laureate Professor Sarah Pink, visiting from Monash University in Australia. The workshop focused on the complex configurations of people, technologies, and organizations — and on how improvisations, failures or fragmented organizational structures can reshape feelings of trust and safety.
A particular highlight was Sarah Pink’s approach to combining different social science methods and scaling them beyond individual projects, opening up new perspectives for collaborative research.
The inspiring week also included a visit to the ZKM exhibition “Histories of Futures” and concluded with the event “Next Frontiers” featuring Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen.
How can we ethnographically study futures that are still emerging? This workshop offered some fascinating answers — and even more exciting new questions.
