Person
Dr.Jan-Peter Voß
Chair of Society and Technology
Visiting professor
Address
Building: 6070
Room: 236
Theaterplatz 14
52062 Aachen
Current Position
Since May 2022 visiting professor at the chair "Technology and Society" at the faculty of arts and humanities at RWTH Aachen University.
Research Focus
- Social studies of knowledge, science, technology, innovation, and experimentation
- Social studies of politics, public policy, governance, participation, and democracy
- Social studies of the senses, affect, aesthetics, art, and design
- Sociologies of knowledge, practice, and culture
- Transdisciplinary research, generative experiments, citizen science
- Energy, mobility, food, infrastructures, climate protection, sustainability
Currents Projects
- Innovating technologies of governance: Emergence, development and spreading of policy instruments/ models of governance and participation methods/ models of democracy
- Late-modern governance: reflexizing functionally differentiated institutions for shaping collective orders (such as the liberal-democratic nation state, academic-disciplinary science, autonomous art), emergence of hybrid arrangements (such as evidence-based and experimental policy-making, participatory and transformative research, aesthetic inquiry and interventions)
- Practices of performative representation and authority generation (epistemic, political and aesthetic)
Additional Positions and Activities
- Board member, DGS Section Political Sociology
- Memberships: German Sociological Association (DGS); German Political Science Association (DVPW); German Society for Science and Technology Research (GWTF); European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST); Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Science and Democracy Network (SDN), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR
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