scientific thoughtscapes

research contents on transformative economic structures and practices

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2024-today: embodied sense-making as research practice

(independent researcher @europe)

• active member of the transdisciplinary media laboratory mlab (bern university, switzerland)
• active member of the „futures + literacies + methods + lab“ consortium (eu-wide)

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2024-today: research project „moving local economies, dancing for future? A transformative economic perspective on dance festivals and their local economic potential„

(postdoc @bern university)

• real-world laboratory workshop series: dancing for future: what’s your move? (awarded with ROREP price 2024)
  • dance bus tour (December 2024)
  • micromanege: less is more (July 2025)
  • instanz berührungspunkte (October 2025)

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2020-2023: research project on transformative labour geographies in germany

(phd @kiel university)

• Grenzdörffer, S. (2023). Mapping and Exploring Worker-led Companies as Transformative Labour Geographies in Germany (Doctoral dissertation). https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00004115

• Braunschweig, B., & Grenzdörffer, S. 36. Folge (08.11. 2022): Verändern neue Arbeitsweisen „die “Wirtschaft?. SpacEconomics| Geographie-Podcast. https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00053697

• Grenzdörffer, S. M. (2022). ‘We’re messing up capitalism through collaboration’: transformative labour agency in German worker-led companies. Work in the Global Economy, 2(2), 199-225. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/wge/2/2/article-p199.xml

• Grenzdörffer, S., Kaiser, J., Mainz, F., & Middendorf, M. (2022). The diversity of property: a potential for a social-ecological transformation. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 31(2), 77-81. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.2.3

• Grenzdörffer, S. (2022). Transformatives Arbeiten in Deutschland. Ökologisches Wirtschaften-Fachzeitschrift, 37(3), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW370323

• Grenzdörffer, S. M. (2021). Transformative perspectives on labour geographies–The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations. Geography Compass, 15(6), e12565. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12565