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
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
SES²: Smart Emergency Supply System: Intelligente Notstromversorgungssysteme unter Einbeziehung regenerativer Energien - Teilvorhaben: Soziologische Begleitforschung zum Smart Emergency Supply System
Burkart, G. (Project manager, academic), Müller, T. (Project staff), Maischatz, K. (Project staff), Ortjohann, E. (Coordination), Siekhaus, K.-H. (Project manager, academic), Blümel, A. (Project manager, academic) & Richter, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.08.09 → 31.07.13
Project: Research
Art and Civic Media
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.11 → 01.05.15
Project: Research
Smartness as Wealth
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Halpern, O. (Project manager, academic), Steinberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Nag, A. (Project manager, academic) & Cirolia, L. R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.23 → 30.09.27
Project: Research
Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in globalized urban context
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Sasaki, M. (Project manager, academic) & Verstraete, K. (Partner, non-academic)
05.07.10 → 08.02.11
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
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
Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheit über die Alltagspraxis Humor
Moebius, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
republicart: republicart
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Stoller, D. (Project staff)
30.04.02 → 30.03.05
Project: Research
Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.22 → 31.08.23
Project: Research
