Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for excellent Bachelor and Master theses in the field of human-environmental research. Now, all bachelor and master graduates of HU Berlin are again invited to apply for our THESys Award! Applications can be submitted during the application period from 15 September to 15 November 2023. Who…
In his KOSMOS-Lesung, Prof. Philippe Baret shows how agroecology can help to rethink agriculture. From Policies to Practices: An Agroecological Approach to Transition 09.10.2024, 18.00-19.30 HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Senatssaal Agroecology offers a framework to rethink agriculture within the broader context of food systems and proposes a pathway to reconcile agricultural practices with…
Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for excellent Bachelor and Master theses in the field of human-environmental research. Now, all bachelor and master graduates of HU Berlin are again cordially invited to apply! Applications for the THESys Award 2024 can be submitted during the application period from 15 July to 01 November…
Under the lead of doctoral researcher Anja Klein, the Situated Modelling Working Group of IRI THESys published their joint open access paper “From situated knowledges to situated modelling: a relational framework for simulation modelling”. In this paper the authors extend the use of a relational approach to simulation modelling, a widely used knowledge practice in…
PhD Project Project leaders: Peter Feindt
The IRI THESys Science Engagement project AnthropoScenes and its coordinator Pauline Münch have been selected as a Falling Walls Engage Finalist! Well done! Outstanding Science Engagement Every year since 2018, the Falling Walls platform has been calling organisations and individuals active in Science Engagement to submit their projects or initiatives. This year, the IRI THESys…
On 31 May 2024, THESys Member Hermann Lotze-Campen (PIK) gave a KOSMOS-Lesung at HU Berlin. In his lecture “Eine umfassende Agrar- und Ernährungstransformation ist möglich – und sie ist von zentraler Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Ausgestaltung des Anthropozäns”, the agricultural economist started out by emphasising that the development of agriculture and food systems can be…
Network Project Project leader: Tobias Krüger
The new research project “Healthy and Biodiverse Edible Cities” (HEBEDI), led by THESys Member Dr. Ina Säumel and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), explores the impact of biodiversity on urban health. A transdisciplinary Community of Knowledge and Practice Building on the successes of EdiCitNet and the HealthyLiving projects, IRI…
On 13 May 2024, Krys Unverzagt successfully defended her PhD thesis “Enactments of Knowledge and Social Order in Participatory Modelling: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Relationship between Science and Democracy”, supervised by Prof. Jörg Niewöhner and Prof. Tobias Krüger, at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie (IfEE) and IRI THESys. She graduated with summa cum laude.…
THESys Project Project leader: Ina Säumel
