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
- TrICo Subprojekt - Community Art and Culture- Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Bartusch, L. (Project manager, academic), Schellmann, M. (Project staff) & Börner, S. (Project staff) - 01.04.23 → 31.12.27 - Project: Transfer (R&D project) 
- 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 
- From Self-Organization to Survival Organizing: Exploring Distributed Collective Action in the Case of the Russian Anti-war Ecology- Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.22 → 01.09.26 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen- Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic) - 15.05.22 → 31.08.23 - 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- DFG Reserach Training Group 2114: 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 
