Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization
Organisational unit: Institute
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
PLUS: Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Animento, S. (Project staff) & Altenried, M. (Project staff)
01.01.19 → 31.03.22
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
Grundversorgung 2.0 (Basic Provision 2.0)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → 30.06.15
Project: Research
Art and Civic Media
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.11 → 01.05.15
Project: Research
NITE: Night spaces: migration, culture and IntegraTion in Europe
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Brandellero, S. (Project manager, academic), Campkin, B. (Project manager, academic), Pardue, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kenny, A. (Project manager, academic)
31.05.19 → 31.05.22
Project: Research
Selbstorganisation: Diskurse, Praktiken, Technologien
Conrad, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → …
Project: Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
24.06.19 → …
Project: Research
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
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 → 31.12.25
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
Migration und Mitbestimmung
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.18 → 30.06.21
Project: Research
ZOMiDi: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und die Herausforderungen von Migration und Diversität
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic), von Unger, H. (Project manager, academic) & Schönwälder, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.18 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
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
Strukturen und Kontexte rechtskonformen Polizeihandelns Eine qualitative Untersuchung zur Rechtsbindung am Beispiel des Streifendienstes der Polizei Niedersachsen
Kretschmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.11.21 → 15.07.22
Project: Research
(Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dogramaci, B. (Partner), Esner, R. (Partner), Küster, B. (Partner), Langfeld, G. M. (Partner), Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (Partner), Rother, L. (Partner), Ruckdeschel, A. (Partner), Smolińska, M. (Partner) & Ströbele, U. (Partner)
01.01.19 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
UMS: Urban Music Studies Scholars´Network
Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project manager, academic), Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Gaupp, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → …
Project: Research
Until Covid-19 do us apart. Music Scenes in Lockdown
Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Kirchberg, V. (Project staff)
01.03.21 → 01.03.22
Project: Research
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
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