Franziska Meinherz

EPFLENACENAC-SARSAR-ENS

Expertise

My research focusses on the interface between urban transformations and (un)sustainable mobility patterns. I am interested in how urban mobility practices are embedded in people's everyday lives and in the configuration of urban spaces, and in how social inequalities produce differentiated accesses to pleasurable and low-carbon mobilities. I am further interested in the institutional processes that accompany the design and implementation of urban mobility policies.
I have experience working with different social theories and have applied qualitative, quantitative and participatory and consultative research methods.
In the past, I have also worked on urban heating practices and energy consumption.

Expertise

My research focusses on the interface between urban transformations and (un)sustainable mobility patterns. I am interested in how urban mobility practices are embedded in people's everyday lives and in the configuration of urban spaces, and in how social inequalities produce differentiated accesses to pleasurable and low-carbon mobilities. I am further interested in the institutional processes that accompany the design and implementation of urban mobility policies.
I have experience working with different social theories and have applied qualitative, quantitative and participatory and consultative research methods.
In the past, I have also worked on urban heating practices and energy consumption.

Formation

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2014 – 2016 Bergen University, Norway; New University of Lisbon, Portugal; Radboud University, Netherlands

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2010 – 2013 Université de Genève, Suisse; Boston University, MA/USA

Journal Articles

2023

"The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law": Urban mobility governance during Covid-19

F. X. MeinherzL. Fritz

Environmental Politics. 2023-08-12. DOI : 10.1080/09644016.2023.2242741.

2021

‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility

F. MeinherzL. Fritz

Mobilities. 2021-05-19. DOI : 10.1080/17450101.2021.1919491.

2020

The dynamics of modal shifts in (sub)urban commuting: An empirical analysis based on practice theories

F. MeinherzC. R. Binder

Journal of Transport Geography. 2020-06-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102763.

Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration

L. FritzF. Meinherz

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 2020-03-26. DOI : 10.14512/gaia.29.1.9.

2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Y. BettigniesJ. MeirellesG. FernandezF. MeinherzP. Hoekman  et al.

Sustainability. 2019-06-02. DOI : 10.3390/su11123246.

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

F. CorsiniR. LaurentiF. MeinherzF. P. AppioL. Mora

Sustainability. 2019-01-11. DOI : 10.3390/su11020341.

2018

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Participatory Modeling to Elicit Behavioral Drivers in Environmental Dilemmas: the Case of Air Pollution in Talca, Chile

F. MeinherzN. Videira

Environmental Management. 2018-04-10. DOI : 10.1007/s00267-018-1034-5.

Conference Papers

2019

Das Privatauto am Ufer des Rubikon: Müssen, Dürfen und Sollen in der Pendlermobilität

F. Meinherz

2019-09-23. Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften. Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Jena, Germany, 23 - 27 september, 2019.

2017

Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level

A. AthanassiadisG. FernandezJ. V. Meirelles de MirandaF. MeinherzP. Hoekman  et al.

2017. 2017 International Conference on Future Buildings and Districts - Sustainability from Nano to Urban Scale, Lausanne, CH, Sepptember 6-9, 2017. p. 709-714. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.374.

2016

When stakeholders cannot be involved in a modelling process: Integrating participatory modelling and consultative approaches

F. MeinherzP. EspínR. Salazar

2016. 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Delft, The Netherlands, July 17-21, 2016.

Books

2024

La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes

R. AlbrecherM. FelderV. KaufmannY. PedrazziniS. Cattacin  et al.

Lausanne: EPFL Press.

Theses

2021

The challenges of studying change in carbon-intensive urban consumption practices: Exploring the dynamics of practice change and of normative considerations in knowledge production

F. Meinherz

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8069.

Book Chapters

2021

Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen

F. MeinherzL. FritzF. Schneider

Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?; Nomos, 2021. p. 185-198.

2020

How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward

F. MeinherzL. FritzF. Schneider

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems; Cambridge University Press, 2020-03-01. p. 65-86.

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

L. FritzF. Meinherz

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems; Cambridge University Press, 2020-03-01. p. 87-122.

Talks

2021

Navigating power in transdisciplinary research: From reflection to resistance

L. FritzO. EjderyanF. Meinherz

2021 International Transdisciplinarity Conference (ITD), “Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation”, [Online] Zürich, Switzerland, 13-17 September 2021.

The potential of tactical urbanism to leverage the Covid-19 crisis for a sustainability transition in urban mobility

F. MeinherzL. FritzM. Fernandes MendesM. A. Hecher

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Virtual, 31 August-3 September, 2021.

2019

Experiences of everyday mobility: How meaning is ascribed to modes

F. Meinherz

Swiss Mobility Conference, Lausanne, Suisse, Octobre 14-15, 2019.

2018

Die Politik von Wissensproduktion für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaftstransformation: eine Analyse der soziotechnologischen Wirkmächtigkeit partizipativer Nachhaltigkeitsbewertungen

F. MeinherzL. Fritz

Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-8 November, 2018.

A conceptual framework to study the dynamics of routine practice transitions

F. Meinherz

9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Manchester, UK, 12-14 June, 2018.

Exploring transition pathways of habitual transport behaviour

F. Meinherz

Systematizing and upscaling urban solutions for climate change mitigation (SUUCCM), Berlin, Germany, 13-14 september, 2018.

2017

Method and challenges for consolidating urban metabolism studies into a standardized, open access database

J. V. Meirelles de MirandaF. MeinherzA. AthanassiadisP. HoekmanG. Fernandez  et al.

Global Urban Metabolism Database

J. V. Meirelles de MirandaF. MeinherzA. AthanassiadisP. HoekmanG. Fernandez  et al.

World Resource Forum, 2017.

Studying the Urban Metabolism from a Social Practice Theory Perspective: Modelling Urban Change Patterns

F. Meinherz

Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2017, Zürich, Switzerland, June 21-23, 2017.

Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

F. Meinherz

2nd PhDs in Transition Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 27.-28. mai 2017.

Student Projects

2022

Analyse des conflits d'usage associés aux aménagements cyclables Covid à Genève

Q. Chiche

2022-10-01

Datasets

2019

Pratiques de mobilité en Suisse: Une étude qualitative sur les choix modaux des pendulaires urbains et la mobilité au quotidien [Dataset]

F. Meinherz

2019-08-20.