27.-29. Mai 2024
STATION Berlin

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.