Waiting. To deal with bad times
** The research project is completed. We present results and retrospect in completed study project sections. **
The category of time as well as the concrete time perception, time experience and time structure are highly culturally coded. How we spend time, think about time, or chronologically structure our everyday lives depends on the cultural and social contexts in which we move. Little attention was given to a very specific time practice: waiting. The research-oriented study project, which has been running since summer semester 2016 and will continue in winter semester 2016/17, therefore deals with the question of how people face this everyday, yet unpredictable, challenge. How do people wait? How do people fill supposedly meaningless or useless time? And how do people think about the wait? It is therefore about the concrete handling of waiting times, that is, the analysis and interpretation of cultural strategies with which people encounter the alleged idleness.
The empirical project examines in five sub-projects everyday practices of waiting in selected places or in special situations:
- Waiting and mobility
- Waiting systems and queue management
- Waiting at the retirement home
- Waiting rooms
In the summer semester 2016, the participants developed cultural-scientific questions and, based on this, designed a research design. The survey began at the end of the summer semester. In the winter semester, the evaluation, preparation and finally the presentation of the results in the University of Uniseum and in a virtual museum on the homepage of the institute.
Head: Dr. Florian von Dobeneck
Duration: 2016/17