Standardized diversity: How technical standards (re)produce diversity and difference
Technical standards such as DIN or ISO structure almost all areas of social life – from mobility and architecture to digital communication. Although they appear to be neutral, timeless sets of rules, they are products of power and knowledge struggles and act as soft laws without being directly legitimized by parliamentary democracy. The interdisciplinary research project “Standardized Diversity” is the first to systematically investigate how technical standardization documents represent, construct, or render invisible relationships of diversity and difference.
