Abstract image of the Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klint

The Tree of Knowledge, HaK133  by Hilma af Klint. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation

Dept. III

Projects List

Dept. III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

Director Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Projects

Ma, Yuan. Shui tujuan. 1160-1225.
The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
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The sportsman and sports journalist Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala is writing on a typewriter in 1932. The typewriter is attached to the thighs with Knefix pliers, developed by Pihkala, so that the writer can write in any position needed.
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"First Research Article" Fellowship
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The sportsman and sports journalist Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala is writing on a typewriter in 1932. The typewriter is attached to the thighs with Knefix pliers, developed by Pihkala, so that the writer can write in any position needed.
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"Get-It-Published" Fellowship
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drawing of dun and stars above Earth
Attempts to Measure the Universee
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map from 1673
Connecting yi 醫 with yi 易 in 11–17th China
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  • Several Scholars
Planning and Counter-Planning
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  • Francesca Bray
Crops on the Move
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The Classification Structures of Local Gazetteers
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A History of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920–1980
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Frontier Horse Ranches in Early Ming China
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  • Felix Mauch
Singapore as a Logistics City
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DeptIII Project Brook Qiu Ying
A Price History of Ming China
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  • Felix Mauch
Infrastructuring Singapore (1850s–1930s)
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  • Several Scholars
Ability and Authority
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  • Several Scholars
Accounting for Uncertainty
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wooden crucifix model
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  • Tara Nummedal
Affective Technologies
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African Chemistry
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Naval Technology and Late Qing China
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Agricultural Knowledge in Persian, 1200–1600
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Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens
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  • Several Scholars
Agricultural Uses of Alchemy
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page from encyclopedia on the “twelve sciences”
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  • Several Scholars
Agriculture and the Making of Sciences
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Agricultural Literature in the Song Dynasty
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  • Jörg Hüsemann
Agriculture, Soil, and Concepts of Nature
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Imagined Human Body
An Imagined Human Body
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The Entangled History of Biology and Silk in Modern Japan
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Animal Fibers, Commerce, and Analytical Techniques
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  • Several Scholars
Launching Nature into the History of Airports
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  • Several Scholars
Animal Mobilities
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Engraving of possum
  • Marcia (Marcy) Norton
Animals and Entangled Epistemologies
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Another Green Revolution? Extracting "Lessons" from History
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