Dr. Michael Guggenheim

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Dr. Michael Guggenheim Leiter Forschung

Address Berner Fachhochschule
Bern Academy of the Arts
Forschung
Fellerstrasse 11
3027 Bern

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Science and Technology Studies (STS), Food, Expertise, Lay People, Buildings, Risk, Buildings

Michael Guggenheim is a sociologist science and technology studies scholar. He earned his doctorate in Zurich and, from 2010, served as a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously, he held positions at institutions including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, NYU, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. During his time in London, he also served as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and as a visiting scholar at the universities of Helsinki and Trento. At Goldsmiths, he directed the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP) and, as of 2024, the Kitchen Research Unit. He also co-developed and directed the MA program in Visual Sociology there. His research and publications focus on the relationship between laypeople and experts in environmental research, the repurposing of buildings, and disaster management, as well as on participatory experiments and visual methods. He has created several exhibitions, most recently "Taste! Experiments for the Senses" ("Schmeck! Experimente für die Sinne") at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

2026 Goldsmiths Migrant Futures Institute MFI Social Enterprise and Engagement Grants “Cooking with Support: Migrant Food Practices, Disability Justice & Inclusive Media” (together with Arcade Gallery, and Laura Cuch)
2024 Goldsmiths Practice Research Development Funds for “Where is the Meal? A Roving and Participatory Event Series on Food, Place and Communities.”
2019-20 “Schmeck!” funded by TU Berlin Citizen Science Fund (mit Jan Peter Voss), siehe https://www.schmeckprojekt.de/
2011-14 ERC-starting grant „Organizing Disaster. Civil Protection and the Population“.
2010-11: “In the event of... . Anticipatory and Participatory Politics of Emergency Provision.“ Research Grant awarded by WWTF Vienna, art&science program, (together with Bernd Kraeftner, Judith Kroell and Isabelle Warner).
2010: „Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Flexibility and Reconstruction“, research grant from the Future of Cities Programme at University of Oxford, together with Javier Lezaun et al.
2009-11 Spillover. Videograms of Experimentation. PI: Hannes Rickli, Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
2004-2006: “wahr/falsch inc.” an exhibition on science and the public, funded by the Austrian state for the Austrian EU-presidency