Duration: July 2021 until January 2022
The project group “Sustainable Intelligence – Intelligent Sustainability” intensively examined the tensions between sustainability and (intelligent) digitisation. In particular, the group explored a broad range of conflicts and synergies between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general and in relation to digitisation in particular. Methodologically oriented work focused on transdisciplinary issues, collaboration engineering and citizen science. The relationship between algorithmic intelligence and aspects of sustainability in terms of equality law constituted an additional research focus.
The project group’s work and networking activities resulted in two conferences: “Die Normativität nachhaltiger Digitalität” on 5/6 May 2022 in Kassel and ” Partizipation und Nachhaltigkeit in der Digitalität” on 8 December 2022 in Fulda. With four invited lectures and comments from the project group at each of the conferences, key challenges for future sustainability research in and for the time of a – ubiquitously and “intelligently” – networked world were identified.
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, LLM , Universität Kassel | spokesperson | more information
Prof. Dr. Gerd Doeben-Henisch, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | deputy | more information
Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. | more information
Prof. Dr. Jörn Lamla, Universität Kassel | more information
Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner, Universität Kassel | more information
Prof. Dr. Christian Schrader, Hochschule Fulda | more information
Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown Univ.), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. | more information
Nachhaltige Intelligenz – intelligente Nachhaltigkeit: transdisziplinäre Forschungsperspektiven
Whitepaper | 22 August 2024
Sustainability and artificial intelligence are two of the megatrends of our time. Each of them poses complex challenges of a scientific and practical nature that already have a strong and ever-increasing impact on politics, the economy and everyday life. The white paper is based on the authors’ conviction that, despite their respective complexity, we must observe and analyse sustainability and artificial intelligence in their interactions, because a separation would be artificial in view of the many interconnections and would risk overlooking not only significant problems but also options for action.
Events
Die Normativität nachhaltiger Digitalität
Interdisciplinary conference, 8 December 2022 | more about this event
Die Normativität nachhaltiger Digitalität
Interdisciplinary conference, 5 & 6 May 2022 | more about this event | proceedings
The Design of Just Sustainability: IT and the Sustainable Development Goals
Lecture, 19 Januar 2022 | more about this event
