We develop historical research, education and public outreach relevant to present-day debates on the role of engineering and technology in causing, mediating, and solving societal and environmental 鈥榞rand challenges鈥�. We engage with public and policy debates that range from the local, such as the sustainable urban mobility challenge (SDG 11 sustainable cities and communities), to the global, such as transcontinental resource chains that connect the sustainability and inequality histories of different places across the globe (SDG 10 reduced inequalities; SDG 12 responsible production and consumption). Through the in-house we collaborate with government, business, research, and civil society organizations; communicate to a broader public; and coordinate transnational research collaborations.
Example programs:
- Our works with local governments and stakeholder organizations to develop historically-informed policy studies on today鈥檚 urban mobility challenges.
- Our program on the interrelationship of Fear and Technology investigates how fears are both the source and the result of technologies 鈥� and vice鈥恦ersa.
- Our program on Global Connections explores how circulation of knowledge, people and artefacts contributes to processes of local appropriation.
- We coordinate the pan-European research program
- We host the secretariat of two major transnational research associations: the US-based and the Pan-European . From July 2020 we host the editorial office of the SHOT quarterly journal Technology & Culture.
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