PhD candidate at the Professorship for Participatory Technology Design 

Vita
Pim holds a B.Sc. in Construction Management and M.Sc. in Innovation Sciences (with great appreciation) from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In his PhD project Pim explores the knowledge politics of planning theory and practices, through a study of Munich’s transport planning department and its efforts to develop cycling in the city of Munich. Pim is passionate about science, technology and sustainability and has a broad interest in the potentials and consequences of the practices through which we know and govern our cities and societies. 

Current research interests

• STS & Planning;
• Actor-Network Theory;
• Governance of sustainable societies;

Publications

• Mendes, C., & Peters, P. (2017). 'Review of The Experimental City by J. Evans, A. Karvonen and R. Raven (eds.)' in TecnoScienza 8 (2)

Conference papers

• Meeting to plan the future of cycling: from boundary and epistemic to topological objects. At EASST Conference 2018: Meetings - Making Science, Technology and Society Together. 25 - 28 July 2018. Lancaster, United Kingdom. 
• Talking matters: how planners use words to reconfigure roads. At 4S/EASST Conference 2016: Science + technology by other means. 31 August - 4 September 2016. Barcelona, Spain.
• Mobile obduracy in everyday practice: an ethnography of the bus and the bike in London. At Assembling Cities Conference: STS theories and methodologies in planning studies. 21-22 January 2015. ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE, Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.