„Environmental politics is captured by the political rules according to which it is performed” writes Jeroen Oomen with Maarten Hajer in his upcoming book Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. At 10th of April, Jeroen discussed his ideas of futuring and engaged in current doctoral projects. The workshop was organized by the Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology and the Professorship of Innovation Research from the STS Department.
The debate on techniques of futuring is a part of many of our PhD students’ work: Michael Nitschmann traces the performances of deep geothermal energy in Bavaria; Sophia Knopf and Manuel Jung relate experimentation in physical and virtual spaces to futuring dramaturgies; Marlise Schneider unfolds the socio-technical imaginary of America’s chip industry in their attepts of producing “A Future Made in America”; Dominic Lammar reflects on the intersection of futuring, hype, and responsibility in AI; and Anja Ruess examines co-creation as a futuring practice and the types of citizens it produces.