New Research Cluster with LMU Center for Advanced Studies
Waste in Environment and Society
06.03.2013
RCC Director Christof Mauch is leading a research cluster, Waste in Environment and Society, with the LMU Center for Advanced Studies. The initiative will feature a series of films, public lectures, and workshops in order to stimulate new thinking that brings research to bear on practical questions of waste reduction and waste management.
Researchers from eight different LMU faculties will work together to develop a new methodological approach, combining their multidisciplinary expertise into a common research framework that incorporates the praxis, norms, and context of waste. They explore where waste comes from, how it travels, which external factors and ethical taboos influence our understanding of waste, and the normative status of our reactions to discarded and unwanted things. Their analysis aims to open a new understanding both of the theory and practice of waste.
The project opens with the film Taste the Waste on 21 March 2013.
For more information on the project, please visit its homepage.