Email: kim.dittmann@zirs.uni-halle.de
Phone: +49 345 55 24077
Interests
• Future Anthropologies
• STS
• Assemblage theory
• Phenomenology
Research Focus
• Future visions – Practices of individual and social shaping of the future
• Knowledge and imagination: The formation and application of expertise as a means of planning the future in everyday life and science.
• Participation and public: Conception and implementation of public participation in wind power projects.
• Human-technology-relations: Challenges of integrating user perspectives in the development of care robotics.
Current research
In her current project at ZIRS PartEEnschaften – Transformative participation in landscapes of renewable energy, Kim conducts research on the connections between energy acceptance and local narratives. In order to intensify public participation and the formation of local publics, the projects aims to integrate local narratives into the planning culture of the energy transition (“Energiewende”).
As part of the project collaboration, Kim is conducting her PhD research The Local (and the) expert – Negotiating expertise and future-making in wind energy projects , where she investigates the entanglement of knowledge and future-oriented action in the context of local wind energy projects. Her focus is on the development of (climate) expertise, its influence on individual visions of the future and their translation into concrete planning practices.
Region of research
• Germany (Saxony; Baden-Württemberg)
Curriculum Vitae
Kim holds a Master’s degree in Ethnology and Comparative Literature from Martin- Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
As part of her Master’s research (Technological care by means of caring technology? Care-robotics. Future. Ethnology), Kim investigated the entanglement of care and technology using the example of care robotics. The social biography of the social assistance robot (SAR) PARO was traced and an overview of the different inscriptions and attributions assigned to PARO by various actors was given. Her focus was on the inscriptions of false assumptions about users, the resulting application issues (especially with dementia care patients) and the intervention possibilities of an engaged anthropology.
Previous positions
August 2021 – Aril 2023: Project team member at StaffCoach GmbH; Conceptualization of projects funded by BUND, e.g. in the area of Telehealth and human resource development.
Memberships
stsing e.V.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany