Annual topic 1.10.23 -30.9.24

COLLOQUIUM Education & Digitality: Sustainability

Digitality and sustainability are, if you like, the central topics of the present. And, the two terms can be discussed in close connection with each other. It is obvious that education will play a central role in the more sustainable development of our society in the future, as well as for further developments in a culture of digitality (keyword AI and digital capitalism).

The COLLOQUIUM Education & Digitality: Sustainability in WS 2023/24 and SoSe 2024 is dedicated to the interfaces that connect these topics in a research-based mode. The issues discussed tend to be pedagogical, although interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome. Projects, project outlines, research strands, questions, etc. are presented, discussed and further developed together. Key texts can be read, discussed and even written together.

On some dates, guests will enrich the colloquium with short specialist inputs.

The colloquium is aimed at all those interested in research at the interface between education, digitality and sustainability. In particular, the following groups of people are addressed:

  • Students of the MA in Educational Science who are working on one of the above-mentioned topics as part of their Master's thesis
  • Doctoral students at TU Darmstadt and other universities (subject to availability of free places)
  • Colleagues from research who are working on a question related to the colloquium topic

Active participation is required from all participants. This active participation is shown in the reading of the texts, in the participation in the discussion, possibly in the presentation of the respective status quo of one's own work, one's own considerations etc. This provides insights into the various research projects.

The exact dates are coordinated at the beginning of each semester.

Please register by e-mail to . Send all important information with it:

  • Surname and first name, matriculation number if applicable
  • Contact (e-mail address)
  • Project (e.g. doctorate, project title) and university
  • If applicable, desired date for the presentation of your own research work (incl. working title of the presentation)
  • If applicable, information on participation in presence or online

Registration for the summer semester 2024 is requested by 15.04.2024 (new entry possible).

The event is organised as ahybride event. It will take place in room(S1|13/169, Alexanderstraße 6). After announcement in advance, you can participate online. The link to an online meeting room will be sent out at the beginning of the semester.

Throughout the semester, we share information on a platform that is easily accessible to everyone.

Yes, something is happening on the dates:

The colloquium will take place in the summer semester 2024 on Wednesdays from 16:15 to approx. 19:30 at the TU Darmstadt (S1|13/218 (CSW), Alexanderstraße 6) on the following dates:

  • 24. April 2024:
    • Kick-Off and Welcome
    • Reading: Nohl, Arnd-Michael (2024): „Bildung, Gemeinwohlerziehung oder politische Erziehung für nachhaltige Entwicklung?“
    • Reading: Stalder, Felix (2021): “Was ist Digitalität?”
  • 15. May 2024
    • Ina Sander (HSU Hamburg): How can critical data formation be promoted and what does this have to do with sustainability?
    • Reading Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2024): „Technology, Activism and Living among Planetary Ruins“
  • 29. May 2024
    • Note: This session will only take place online.
    • Judith Neuthard (TU Darmstadt), Nina Grünberger (TU Darmstadt): Numbers count. An overview of current statistics and figures in the context of sustainable digitality
    • Reading Kehren, Yvonne and Winkler, Christine (2019): „Nachhaltigkeit als Bildungsprozess und Bildungsauftrag“
  • 12. June 2024
    • Johanna Weckenmann (Uni Frankfurt): Thinking virtuality in educational science?
    • Thomas Barth (Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt): The role of digital technologies in times of exhaustion and devastation
  • 26. June 2024
    • Marco Rieckmann (Uni Vechta): Inclusive education for sustainable development in the digital age: principles and implementation options
    • Susanne Pawlewicz (TU Darmstadt): Welcome to the machine: Die Universität als ungleichheitsreproduzierende Institution
  • 10. July 2024

A cosy finale in a pub in Darmstadt is explicitly not excluded.

All texts are provided via Moodle.

Information on the programme will be added on an ongoing basis.

The colloquium will take place in the winter semester 2023/2024 on Wednesdays from 16:15 to approx. 19:30 at the TU Darmstadt (S103/015, Old Main Building) on the following dates:

  • 25. October 2023:
    • Kick-Off and Welcome
    • Richard Beecroft and Tanja Godlewsky (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Urban utopias – an invitation to think ambivalent futures
    • Catarina Liane Araújo (Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal): Connections between education, digitality and sustainability – practical examples in the European context
  • 8. November 2023
    • Gregor Eckert (TU Darmstadt): On the pedagogical relevance of the economic dimension of education for sustainable development (ESD) (dissertation project)
    • Reading Getzin, Sofia and Singer-Brodowski, Mandy. 2016. „Transformatives Lernen in einer Degrowth-Gesellschaft“.Socience: Journal of Science-Society Interfaces 1: 33–46.
  • 22. November 2023
    • Peter Euler (TU Darmstadt): Real existing unsustainability as a result of capital-driven technological de-limitation
  • 6. December 2023
    • Caroline Grabensteiner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Digitalisation, schools and the bridge to sustainability (presentation of new work area)
    • Julia Stroh (TU Darmstadt): Future perspectives of student teachers on their work in the context of education for sustainable development
  • 20. December 2023
    • Jessica Nixon (TU Darmstadt): Decolonial perspectives on digitally supported teaching-learning settings in Sub-Saharan Africa (dissertation project)
    • Nina Grünberger (TU Darmstadt): Postcolonial perspective on digitality and sustainability (article project)
  • 17. January 2024:
    • Judith Hoehling (TU Darmstadt): Digitality and sustainability in the teaching profession (dissertation project)
    • Susanne Pawlewicz (TU Darmstadt): The conservative university. Studies on the reproduction of social inequality in higher education (dissertation project)
  • 31. January 2024:
    • Final discussion

A cosy finale in a pub in Darmstadt is explicitly not excluded.