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The research focus of Cordula Kropp is on the study of infrastructure projects, their potentials, pertaining standards and challenges, requirements and implications (e.g., transformation of energy systems, transport systems, digitisation and automation). Infrastructure projects are often presented as all-encompassing solutions. However, infrastructures are always already in place, indispensable and unsatisfactory, in constant need of overhaul and improvement, under (re-) construction and posing new challenges and problems. Although they are commonly seen as a merely technical matter, they are articulate cultural ideas, social projects, sociotechnical codes and frames, and relations of power. At the same time, they critically influence social imaginations and practices and determine the living conditions in the Anthropocene. Against this background, our aim is to better understand the possibilities, requirements and preconditions for sustainable infrastructure change and its interrelations with societal, political, and participatory transformation processes.
At ZIRIUS Cordula Kropp is responsible for the investigation of sociotechnical transformation processes and for the development of theoretical and methodological approaches to risk and technology studies (further information).
Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp (*1966) is a sociologist with a long-standing focus on sustainability research on more-than-human relationships, sociotechnical innovations and change. She is an expert in science-technology-studies, including actor-network analyses, discourse analyses, technology assessment. Cordula has successfully led numerous inter- and transdisciplinary projects on dealing with risk issues, climate change and socio-technical transformation processes.