Helene von Schwichow

Researcher and Project Manager
Portrait photo of Helene von Schwichow
Photo credit / Image credit
Diana Weidmann

Helene v. Schwichow is a PhD-researcher at the professorship for Policy Analysis at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research focuses on concepts and practices of social sustainability in smart cities. As the manager of the project “sustAInability,” she additionally researches and teaches on the opportunities and risks of AI technologies for sustainable development.
Before her work at TUM, she co-founded MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture, a think tank that worked at the intersection of technology and society. With MOTIF, she conducted various projects, including research on behalf of the Third Gender Equality Report on women in the platform economy and Digital Vereint, a platform that supports civil society organizations with open-source tools. She is also the co-initiator of Feminist Futures, a participatory art and advocacy project that uses sci-fi stories to discuss and re-imagine the internet from a feminist perspective.
Helene has studied in Berlin and Paris and holds a master’s degree in communication in social and economic contexts from the Berlin University of the Arts.

Sessions

Urbane Transformation: Städte nachhaltig gestalten mit KI?

Helene von Schwichow, Magnus Keske

Summary
KI-Technologien werden zunehmend mit dem Ziel einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung eingesetzt. Doch wann ist das wirklich sozial und ökologisch sinnvoll? In unserem Workshop erarbeiten wir gemeinsam die Voraussetzungen und Anwendungsfelder für KI, um Städte zukunftsfähig und lebenswert zu gestalten.
Climate crisis
Common good
AI
Sustainability
Popticum
Workshop
German
re:claim Digital Future
Conference

Can AI be feminist? Let’s meet up to build networks, discuss topics and our next publication

Anna Antonakis , Helene von Schwichow

Summary
In times of the rise of right-wing parties and increasing power of big tech companies, this Meet-Up creates a space for open exchange for everyone who deals with digital politics and technologies from a feminist perspective and wants to discuss challenges, strategies and collaborations.
Digital rights
Feminism
AI
Participation & Access
Meet Up
Meet Up
English
Conference