Organisation profile
The Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISCO) is part of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. The research at ISCO is focused on topics of sociology and on issues of cultural organisation(s) in society. Mostly in the degree programs of the Faculty of Cultural Studies we teach general sociological and cultural theoretical courses and interdisciplinary courses of organisational theory with respect to arts and culture. At the following Websites you will find more detailed information about our areas of research and teaching in sociology and cultural organisation.
Main research areas
ESA RN2: 9th Midterm Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association: "Arts And Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference"
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Guerra, P. (Project manager, academic) & Moreira, T. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Scientific event
Alltag im Dissens: Eine Studie zum Gebrauch (imaginären) Rechts von Reichsbürger:innen (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur)
Kretschmann, A. (Project manager, academic), Hundertmark, B. (Project staff) & Rowitz, L. (Project staff)
01.04.23 → 31.05.26
Project: Research
Arbeitsgruppe Konsumsoziologie
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic) & Hellmann, K.-U. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.02 → …
Project: Research
Art and Civic Media
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.11 → 01.05.15
Project: Research
Art and (Un-)Sustainability
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.06 → 31.10.10
Project: Dissertation project
A Survey of Surveys - Eine international vergleichende Metastudie repräsentativer Bevölkerungsanalysen des Kulturkonsums
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Kuchar, R. (Project staff)
30.09.09 → 31.03.11
Project: Research
Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithm, Speculation
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Antenucci, I. (Project staff), Voigt, M.-L. (Project staff), Hille, L. (Project staff), Rossiter, N. (Partner), Mattern, S. (Partner) & Halpern, O. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.09.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
KARAMOJA: Awareness raising of Europeans on issues of sustainability in semi-pastoral societies of developing countries: the case of the Karimojong people in North-Eastern Uganda
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Kagan, S. (Project staff)
01.01.08 → 14.07.09
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Bestimmung impliziter Motive der Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine qualitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
Beyond the Protest: Self-Organization in Russian Anti-War Ecology of Resistance, Solidarity, and Aid
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 01.09.25
Project: Dissertation project
CES Summer School: Artistic and Other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Duxbury, N. (Project manager, academic), Haley, D. (Project manager, academic), Blanc, N. (Project manager, academic) & Holz, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.15 → 30.11.16
Project: Scientific event
Civil Society in 2024 Russia
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.24 → 30.11.24
Project: Practical Project
Commodified Agency: Social Space and the Digital Value Chain
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Converging institutions? How do regional institutions stimulate the innovation process of nanotechnologies in economy an d society? A German-French comparison
Papilloud, C. (Project manager, academic) & Ott, I. (Project manager, academic)
15.11.07 → 14.06.10
Project: Research
Critical Art(ist)s and Urban Development - A collaborative study comparing German and Israeli Cities
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), de-Shalit, A. (Partner) & Hoop, M. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.16 → 31.03.19
Project: Research
CSR-Kommunikation: Einflussfaktoren der Glaubwürdigkeit
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.12 → 30.06.16
Project: Dissertation project
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
CURE: Cultures of Rejection: Conditions of Acceptability in Socio-Spatial and Digital Environments in Contemporary Europe
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Fiket, I. (Partner), Sauer, B. (Partner), Bojanic, S. (Partner), Jonsson, S. (Partner) & Harder, A. (Project staff)
15.01.19 → 23.02.22
Project: Research
«Curtius Academy» im Rahmen des European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (2023-2026)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Steyaert, C. (Partner) & Holt, R. (Partner)
01.10.23 → 30.09.26
Project: Research
Die Bedeutung von Kunst und Kultur für die Stadtentwicklung - Ein Vergleich von Baltimore und Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.04 → …
Project: Research
Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheit über die Alltagspraxis Humor
Moebius, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
SaM: Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff), Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff) & Wedler, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Research
Digitisation of Labour: Configurations of Real and Virtual Migration
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Altenried, M. (Project staff) & Wallis, M. (Project staff)
01.05.18 → 30.04.21
Project: Research
Dis/connectivity. Imaginaries, Media Technologies, Politics
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Stäheli, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.18 → 30.04.22
Project: Research
Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
DigID: Doing Digital Identities
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic), El-Kahil, S. (Project staff), O'Brien, O. (Project staff), Lambert, L. (Project staff) & Hargyono, S. (Project staff)
01.02.23 → 31.01.28
Project: Research
Einfluss der Vertrauensentwicklung, unternehmerischer Wandel
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Eichenlaub, A. (Project staff)
01.05.09 → 30.08.11
Project: Research
Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Einsatz von Architektur bei der Markenbildung von Kulturunternehmen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 23.06.14
Project: Dissertation project
Emotionalisierung der Religion. Neue emotionale Stile im Kontext religöser Erfahrung
Herbrik, R. (Project manager, academic) & Knoblauch, H. (Project manager, academic)
20.10.10 → 30.09.13
Project: Research
eMotion – das psychogeographische Museum: mapping museum experience
Kirchberg, V. (Partner), Tröndle, M. (Project manager, academic), Tschacher, W. (Partner), van den Berg, K. (Partner) & Wintzerith, S. (Partner)
01.10.08 → 15.01.16
Project: Research
Entrainment: Temporal Structuring of Creative Projects
Schüßler, E. (Project manager, academic), Grabher, G. (Project manager, academic), Sydow, J. (Project manager, academic) & Hoop, M. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.16 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Erasmus Mundus application
Jorgensen, L. (Project manager, academic)
08.01.24 → 30.06.25
Project: Other
TACTICS: Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: Thinking in Action: Creative Transformation of Intercultural Common Space
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic)
08.12.21 → 01.07.25
Project: Other
EU COST Action on "Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic)
28.09.23 → 27.09.27
Project: Research
European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Metelmann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Johnsen, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 30.09.25
Project: Other
Evaluation des Projektes "RAUMsichten"
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Partner) & Grigoleit, A. (Partner)
03.11.09 → 31.12.12
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
“Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
21.09.14 → 26.09.14
Project: Scientific event
Field Research: Art World Zurich
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Prinz, S. (Partner) & Tarnai, C. (Partner)
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
01.12.08 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Förderung des Ausbaus eines Programms für Schlüsselqualifikationen an den Mitgliedshochschulen der Internationalen Bodenseehochschule
Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Stadler, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.06.06 → 15.09.07
Project: Research
FLiF: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus
Hochmann, L. (Project staff)
01.04.14 → 30.09.16
Project: Teaching
FLiF+: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus plus
Hochmann, L. (Project staff)
01.10.16 → 31.12.20
Project: Teaching
Forschungsschwerpunkt Dimensionen der Sorge
Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Karle, I. (Project manager, academic) & Werner, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 30.08.19
Project: Research
Groove the City 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
30.05.18 → 30.11.19
Project: Scientific event
Groove the City 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)
30.08.18 → 31.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Groove the City 2020
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
24.01.20 → 30.06.20
Project: Scientific event