Karolina Heck

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Contact

E-mail
karolinaheck-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@posteo.net

Institutions

Name
Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research
Position
Doctoral candidate
Name
Technische Universität Berlin
Position
Doctoral candidate

Research interests

Queer & Trans Ecologies; Queer Theory; Art-Based Research Methods; Intersectional Perspectives on Transformation and Resilience Research

2022 - 2024Umweltpolitikberater*in, adelphi research gGmbH
2021 - 2022Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung, Berlin
2020 - 2021Global Exchange, Master Geographie, University of Melbourne
2019 - 2020Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft und Tutor*in am Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften, Universität Freiburg
2019 - 2020Gaststudentin, Universität Basel
2018 - 2021Master Geographie des Globalen Wandels, Universität Freiburg
2015 - 2016Erasmus+ Geographie, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2013 - 2018Bachelor Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Heck, K., Blumstein, S., & Johnson, F. (2022). Promoting water tenure for food security, climate resilience and equity: Workshop report. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations & adelphi gGmbH.
  • Blumstein, S., Heck, K., & Troell, J. (2022). Water tenure for food security, climate resilience and equity: Thematic background papers. adelphi gGmbH.
  • Das, B., Heck, K., & Vimal, S. (2024). Mapping of stakeholders and engagement mechanisms in RETOUCH NEXUS case studies and at European level (Deliverable RETOUCH NEXUS). adelphi gGmbH.
  • Das, B., & Heck, K. (2024). Factsheets on good practices and innovative tools for stakeholder engagement and public participation (Deliverable RETOUCH NEXUS). adelphi gGmbH.

Doctoral Project

Karolina's dissertation project deals with queer forms of knowledge and articulation in the context of the climate crisis. At its core is an empirical study on queer perspectives on climate change. Methodologically, the project combines focus groups with a collaborative zine-making session. In addition, Karolina is realising a multi-month project with a queer-feminist choir. In a collaborative process, they are developing a concept that focuses on the embodied experiences of water and the performers' individual and collective relationships to water. Theoretically, the project is situated in queer ecology and transecology, which understand nature, body and gender as dynamic, power-structured processes. The work is guided by a queer-phenomenologically informed, reflexive research practice that understands queer and visual methods as epistemic interventions.