ANNOUNCEMENT

MODEL : CONNECT

CONNECTING MODEL RESEARCH, Münster, 08.12.2026, 16.00h
Location: University of Münster, Senatssaal, Münster Castle

This meeting seeks to introduce existing projects, concepts and ideas on model research by connecting modellers from various disciplines.

Keynote: Prof. Dr.  Alexander Schnell, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

This volume reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. Focusing on modelling both as a cultural technique and as a strategy of innovation, the chapters provided in this volume throw into relief the visions, but also the blind spots of modelling the challenges of climate change. Thus, in a rare encounter, major voices from the Sciences and the Humanities, from Energy Systems Design, Mechanical Engineering, Theory of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Literary Studies and the Arts, have gathered here to overcome the cultural divide between the technological and the societal dimensions of this global task. In doing so, they offer a new form of model criticism, pointing to the impacts of what may be termed the ›Energy Imaginary‹ on the technosocial mindsets of our time. / London (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025

With contributions by Bas van Fraassen, Nancy Cartwright, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Lorenzo Magnani and others.

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