department iii

Tree of Knowledge HaK133, painting by Hilma af Klint, courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation _ Photo_Moderna Museet-Stockholm.

Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

Department III studies the history of knowledge and action considering the changing role of artifacts: texts, objects, and spaces. Our research collectively examines the processes and structures by which people grappled with the materiality of existence. Through the analysis of everyday actions, we interrogate the boundaries and intersections between the inner workings of objects and all domains of life. Together these approaches allow us to pursue inquiries into historical epistemologies of action. Our research structure has three entry points: artifacts (things), action (making), knowledge (work). 

Research

Metals and Minerals
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Heavens in Your Hand
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Proteins and Fibers
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Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down
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Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere
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The kn/own/able Project
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Nachrichten & Presse

Neue offene Stellen in den Bereichen Forschung, Verwaltung, Journalismus und technischer Support

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MPG-CAS Summer School “Astral Science, Cosmology, and Common Knowledge of Historical China and Beyond”

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Das Institut heißt Journalist in Residence Thomas Lewton willkommen

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Veranstaltungen

Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World

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Forms of Labour (chapter from the monograph "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India")

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Publikationen

Multimedia & Feature Articles

Digitale Ressourcen