HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU)
Dr. Heike Derwanz – Cultural Anthropology

Heike Derwanz is a cultural anthropologist and art historian. She was a member of DFG graduate school “Automatisms. The emergence of structures beyond planned processes in information technology, media and culture” at the University of Paderborn. Her book “Street Art-Karrieren. Neue Wege in den Kunst- und Designmarkt“ will be published with Transcript Verlag in summer 2013.

In her former projects as well as in her post-doc work she is interested in social and economic practices of creative innovators and entrepreneurs. Other interests are anthropology of art, street art, outsider art and metropolitan culture.

She also focused on interdisciplinary methodology beyond ethnography, economics, the studies of visual culture and art history. Along with Tobias Conradi and Florian Muhle she edited the book „Strukturentstehung durch Verflechtung. Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie(n) und Automatismen“ about the use of actor-network-theory in the humanities in 2011.

Since April 2012 she researches urban low-budget practices and coordinates the Low-Budget-Urbanity research group at HafenCity University.