Helen Bönnighausen

About the person & the research project

Helen Bönnighausen, M.A., is a research associate in the Sonderforschungsbereich "Strukturwandel des Eigentums". She studied literature and cultural studies as well as sociology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2016-2020), social theory at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (2021-2023) and media philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2020-2024). Her studies were funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In subproject C06 "Making things available. Property as a specific form of world relationship" of the SFB, she is working on the relationship between world relationship and energy sharing. In her dissertation project, she is investigating bodily existence in the world with regard to (spatially) plural situations of order and transition.

Research interests: World relations theory, phenomenology, media philosophy, philosophical anthropology, spatial and urban sociology, architectural and infrastructural sociology