Short CV
Since October 2024, Florian Gratzl has been a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing“ , where he is pursuing a doctorate on the reciprocal relationship between forms of dwelling and forms of thought and subjectivity (Stephan Lessenich).
He previously studied sociology and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His master’s thesis examined the potential and requirements of a historical-sociological theory of subjectivity. From 2018 to 2024, he also worked as a tutor and student assistant at the Department of Sociology.
Recent projects
PhD project: Wohnform und Denkform. Entwurf einer historisch-soziologischen Subjekttheorie des Wohnens („forms of housing and forms of thinking: a subject theory of housing“)
This doctoral project explores the fundamental assumption that specific forms of dwelling enable specific forms of subjectivity, and that dwelling is a precondition for thought, a factor often abstracted from in social theory. The project therefore examines the reciprocal relationship between forms of dwelling and forms of thought and subjectivity, drawing on comparisons across different historical periods. The historical-social change in dwelling and thinking will be traced through the spatial location of people in their dwellings and by comparing different forms of secluded dwelling. The theoretical focal point of the project is an empirically open concept of habit.