Cultural Researcher and Educator
My academic background is in educational science. I completed my doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on Relational Becoming – on social belonging as a process of becoming-with.
This relational grounding still shapes how I think about education and transformation: not through fixed identities or technical fixes, but through ways of relating in which humans and the non-human encounter one another.
I currently research music and sound as spaces of social-ecological transformation. What fascinates me about sound is its movement and transience: in the moment of hearing, it has already passed or is not yet there. Dance floors interest me as communal places where belonging and change are not only thought but lived. In my ongoing research project Shifting Basslines I explore how club culture can become part of social-ecological transformation.
Alongside research, I develop educational materials, curate discourse formats, and host and produce podcasts. Over the years I have taught at several universities, held visiting professorships, and worked with cultural institutions, research institutes and civil-society initiatives.
My methodological repertoire lies in qualitative-ethnographic, participatory and praxeological research. My mode is transdisciplinary – not in the sense of “academia plus practice partners”, but as a genuine willingness to share methods, language and authority.
I live in Berlin and am the mother of a young son. I grew up in Thuringia during the years of German reunification and its aftermath. These experiences still shape how I see education, belonging and change.