Bastian Manteuffel

Bastian Manteuffel studied geography at the University of Münster and European ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is interested in the knowledge politics of and ways of knowing co-produced by (digital) technologies and infrastructures in the field of urbanism. His MA thesis was concerned with digital urbanism as a particular problematization treating urban problems in terms of information and was awarded with the Georg Simmel Prize. Previously a research associate at a non-profit association for municipal research, he is currently in the Department of Political Science at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, working on a research project about the digitalization of municipal administrations. His PhD project examines both the politics and the infrastructural work involved in national efforts toward a digital state, as well as the problematizations of bureaucracy that accompany it.