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Dr. Robin Kellermann
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Research associate
Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre
Fachgebiet Arbeitslehre/Technik und Partizipation
Sekr. MAR 1-1
Marchstraße 23
10587 Berlin
Room MAR 1.059
Telephone: +49 30 314-24373
Telefax: +49 30 314-21120
E-Mail: robin.kellermann[at]tu-berlin.de
Visiting hours: by arrangement.
Short Introduction/Resume
Robin Kellermann graduated with a B.A. in Cultural Studies from OvGU Magdeburg and a M.A. in Historical Urban Studies from Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on historical and contemporary examinations of urban transport and mobility with special emphasis on cultural perceptions, representations, and socio-technical co-evolutions.
In his PhD, he works on the cultural history of waiting in the context of public transportation by retracing the co-evolution of physical waiting environments and social practices at 19th and early 20th century train stations (submitted June 2020, PhD defense 30 September 2020).
Since November 2012 he is working as a lecturer and research associate at IBBA (TU Berlin). He worked in different European and German research projects on the future of transport industries and the role of user participation in public transport planning. Currently, he is coordinator of the project "The Sky is the Limit - Future utilisation of urban airspace", an explorative research project on risks and opportunities of drones as means for urban logistics and transportation.
He is an appointed member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) and book review editor of the Journal for Transport History (JTH).
Since May 2015, he is a DFG Associate Fellow at the International Graduate Research Program “Berlin – New York – Toronto” at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin.
Fields of interest
- Cultural history of transport, mobility and immobility (waiting, stillness, slowness)
- Future of transport in contexts of sustainability and digital technologies
- Mobility behaviour and user acceptance
- Sustainable mobility transition
- Urban planning, urban history
- Evolution of transport technologies and infrastructures
- Participation processes
Current position
Since January 2019: Coordinator of "The Sky is the Limit - The Future of Urban Airspace" (Sky Limits).
Since 2017: Research associate with teaching responsibilities
Professional Experience
- Since July 2017: Research associate with teaching responsibilities
- August 2015 – July 2017: project coordinator of “VERS” (Verkehrszugangssysteme), granted by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- 2014: Research associate in project NEAR2- Network of European - Asian Rail Research, granted by European Union – Program FP7
- January 2013 – February 2015: Research associate and Co-Coordinator in RACE2050 – Responsible innovation Agenda for Competitive European transport industries up to 2050, granted by: European Union – Program FP7
- 2009-2012: Tour guide in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and Airport Berlin-Tempelhof
- January 2010 – December 2010: Student assistant at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin
Education
- 2008 – 2011 Technical University of Berlin, M.A., in Historical Urban Studies (1,1), Master Thesis: „The Hyderabad flyovers: Elevated highways since the 1990s as artefacts of an emerging megacity“
- 2003 – 2008 University „Otto-von-Guericke“ Magdeburg, B.A., in Kulturwissenschaft, Wissensmanagement, Logistik: „Cultural Engineering“ (1,5), Bachelor Thesis: „The relevance of places in times of globalized space.”
Teaching and lecturing
- Summer term 2018: Lecturer for seminar L 539 "Vertiefung Mobilität", "B.A. Arbeitslehre", TU Berlin.
- Winter term 2017/2018: Lecturer for seminar L 539 "Vertiefung Mobilität", "B.A. Arbeitslehre", TU Berlin.
- Summer term 2017: Lecturer for seminar L 544 "Digitale Techniken & Informationstechnologischer Wandel", "B.A. Arbeitslehre", TU Berlin.
- 2010, 4th January: Tutorial leader for Bachelor of Arts “Kultur und Technik” students, TU Berlin, Ringvorlesung Metropolen, tutorial title: London, Paris und Berlin im Vergleich
Publications
- 2022. Warten auf die Bahn: Eine Bau- und Kulturgeschichte, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 8-9/2022, S. 13-19
- 2021. "Im Zwischenraum der beschleunigten Moderne: Eine Bau- und Kulturgeschichte des Wartens auf Eisenbahnen, 1830-1935", Bielefeld, transcript.
- 2020. "Waiting (for Departure)", in Routledge Handbook for Urban Mobilities, Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Vincent Kaufmann, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, and Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange (eds.). New York & London: Routledge. pp. 144-153.
- 2020. "Drones for parcel and passenger transportation: A literature review", in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2019.100088 (with Tobias Biehle and Liliann Fischer).
- 2019. "Waiting for Railways (1830-1914)". In Timescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral, Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth, and Olaf Berwald (eds.). Leiden & Boston: Brill. pp. 35-57.
- 2019. “Didactical functions of dark and bright scenarios: Learning from past scenarios for the European transport industry”, in Envisioning Uncertain Futures. Scenarios as a Tool in Security, Privacy, and Mobility Research, Springer VS (with Massimo Moraglio and H.-L. Dienel).
- 2017. "The Final Countdown. Ambiguities of real time information systems ‘directing’ the waiting experience in public transportation", in Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilites, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen eds., Routledge. pp. 19-26.
- 2017. „Partizipative Interventionen/Inhaltliche Empfehlungen und Einstellungsänderungen durch die Teilnahme an Partizipationsverfahren“ (with R.Zigeler, A.Düben and B.Kremer).
2017. „Elektronische Ticket- und Verkehrszugangssysteme: Vergleichende Analyse internationaler Fallbeispiele“, http://www.technik.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg301/Projekte/VERS/VERS_Elektronische_Ticket-_und_Verkehrszugangssysteme_Vergleichende_Analyse_internationaler_Fallbeispiele_FINAL.pdf.
- 2016. „Forschungsbericht zu Technikeinstellungen und Nutzungsverhalten gegenüber einem automatisierten Verkehrszugangssystem (Check-in/Be-out)“ (with A.Düben and M.Weber), http://www.technik.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg301/Projekte/VERS/VERS_Forschungsbericht_Check-in_Be-out_FINAL.pdf.
2015. „Literaturbericht – Identifikation von Nutzungsvorbehalten gegenüber RFID-Anwendungen und Strategien zur Erhöhung RFID-bezogener Technikakzeptanz“, http://www.technik.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg301/Projekte/VERS/VERS_Literaturbericht_RFID-Nutzungsvorbehalte.pdf.
- 2014. “In the Year 2525. Technikaffinität als Genealogie der Zukunft des Verkehrs“ [In the Year 2525. Technological Rebounds, Genealogy of Transport Futures 1950-2050], Blätter für Technikgeschichte, 75-76, 47-68(19) (with Massimo Moraglio and H.-L. Dienel). Link to publication
- 2014. „Projektbericht RACE2050. Entwicklung einer innovativen und verantwortungsvollen Agenda für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der europäischen Transportindustrie bis 2050“, Zeitschrift für Zukunftsforschung, 3/1, 48-60(22) (with Hans-Liudger Dienel and Massimo Moraglio). Link to publication
- 2011. Hyderabad im Umbruch – Risiken einer suburban fokussierten Stadtplanung, in: Future Megacities in Balance, German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn, pp. 271-277.
Conference, Meeting and Workshop Participation
Organization of International Conferences
- Title: Between dark scenarios and a bright future. Conference for a sustainable and competitive European transport industry by 2050
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2015. January 29th
Venue: European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, Belgium
Organizer: FP7 project RACE2050
Task: Scientific co-organiser
Presentation & Panel Organization: International Conferences
- Title: 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M), Mobile Utopia, Lancaster, UK
Type of meeting: International conference
Date: 2017. Nov 2-5
Venue: Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, "On the Backside of Utopia: Social Practices of Waiting for Transportation (1830-1930)"
- Title: 14th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M), Space of Flows and Friction, Mexico City
Type of meeting: Internationale conference
Date: 2016. Oct 27-30
Venue: Quinta Colorada, Mexico City, Mexico
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, "Organizing Flow and Friction: The Historical Evolution of Handling Massive Passenger Volumes"
- Title: Between Inhabited Futures and Constructed Pasts. 4th Annual Conference of the DFG International Graduate Research Program IGK Berlin - New York - Toronto
Type of meeting: Internationale conference
Date: 2015. November 19-21
Venue: The University of Toronto and York University, Toronto, Canada
Organizer: DFG International Graduate Research Program IGK Berlin - New York - Toronto: »The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the Nineteenth-Century to the Present« (DFG/IGK 1705)
Task: Poster presentation of PhD project "The Stepchild of Mobility"
- Title: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M), Caserta
Type of meeting: Internationale conference
Date: 2015. September 14-17
Venue: Naples University, Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, paper „Reconnecting mobility history. Towards 'histories of waiting'”
- Title: 10th Anniversary Conference of the Cosmobilities Network - Networked Urban Mobilities.
Type of meeting: Internationale conference
Date: 2014. November 5-7
Venue: Aalborg University Copenhagen
Organizer: Cosmobilities Network und Aalborg University
Task: Speaker, paper "Moderated waiting. How new technologies reshape and mediate waiting in mobilities."
- Title: 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) – Spinoffs of Mobility: Technology, Risk & Innovation.
Date: 2014. September 18-21
Venue: Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, paper „Bus stop, Platform, Departure Gate. Tracing the interrelations of speed and waiting."
- Title: Fachkonferenz Mobilität: Zukunftsmarkt oder Ende des Wachstums?
- Title: 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. October 10-13
Venue: Holiday Inn by the Sea, Portland/Maine, USA
Organizer: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Task: Speaker, paper title: Do Infrastructures Talk Politics? Flyovers as Hybrid Agents of Political Legitimation and Urban Change in South Indian Hyderabad.
- Title: 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) – Transport & Borders
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. September 25-28
Venue: September 25-26 Kouvola Talo (Municipal cultural centre), Kouvola, Finland; September 27-28 St.Petersburg State Transport University, St.Petersburg, Russia
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, paper title: Bordering and De-Bordering the Continent. How Threat Scenarios Urged to Reshape European Transport Industry 1965-1985 (with M.Moraglio).
- Title: 6th Plenary Conference of Tensions of Europe – Democracy & Technology, Europe in Tension from the 19th to the 21st Century
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. September 19-21
Venue: Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Organizer: Tensions of Europe
Task: Speaker, paper title: The Mobility of the Future ‘believes’ in the past – The iron cage of Technology.
- Title: Global Conference on Mobility Futures
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. September 4-6
Venue: Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster, UK
Organizer: Lancaster Center for Mobilities Research
Task: Speaker, paper title: Genealogy of the future. 50 years of threat scenarios for the European transport industry (with M. Moraglio, A. Liebender).
- Title: Future Megacities in Action
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. May 13-16
Venue: Fischauktionshalle, Hamburg, Germany
Organizer: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Task: poster presentation, poster title: Flyovers as political self-legitimation and city branding strategy in Hyderabad/ India
- Title: 22th Annual Meeting of the German Association for the History of Technology – The Senses & Technology
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2013. May 10-12
Venue: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), Dresden, Germany
Organizer: Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG)
Task: Speaker, paper title: Sinnlichkeit und Sinnstiftung – Die Rolle der Flyovers von Hyderabad im Zuge des Aufstiegs zur indischen Megacity
- Title: Mobilitätsverhalten der Zukunft
Type of meeting: National workshop
Date: 2013. February 18-19
Venue: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany
Organizer: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (DIFU)
Task: participant
- Title: 5th Plenary Conference of Tensions of Europe
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2012. October 3-4
Venue: Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizer: Tensions of Europe
Task: Speaker, paper title: Dwelling in-between: The role of technology in shaping hyper-mobile Europe (with H.-L. Dienel and M. Moraglio).
- Title: 9th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) – Mobility on Display
Type of meeting: International Conference
Date: 2011. October 6-9
Venue: Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Organizer: International Association for the History of Transport Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Task: Speaker, paper title: A story of symbols – Hyderabad's Flyovers and the triumph of irrationality
- Title: Young Researchers Symposium of Future Megacities
Type of meeting: International workshop
Date: 2010. October 9-10
Venue: Universität Duisburg/Essen, Essen, Germany
Organizer German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)