Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
“New” project: Ethnography of social-ecological modeling

“New” project: Ethnography of social-ecological modeling

a bucket filled with bottles containing water samples
Sea and well water samples, taken by researchers statistically modeling climate change impact on diarrhea case numbers

We are happy to announce the funding and start of a “new” project contributing to the ethnography of social ecological modeling, which aims at situating materiality, difference and complexity in modeling practices through a comparative case study of three different research groups. “New” is set in quotation marks because this is not a new project within the context of the lab but a continuation of Anja Klein’s PhD research. The project is funded by the DFG and supervised by Prof. Jörg Niewöhner. The “new” project started with a short fieldtrip to visit a research group in Accra, working on impacts of climate change on diarrhea case numbers in coastal communities in Ghana. Part of this is the development of a statistical modeling platform and transdisciplinary work on mediating these impacts with the local communities in question.