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

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Another Green World
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man-eating shark
  • Miles Powell
Encounters with Sharks since 1900
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relief on stone
Arhcaeology of the Astral
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Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle
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Artifact and Tonality: Instrument Makers of India
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Renaissance Nature and the Invention of Race
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book cover: Daniela Rosner: Critical Fabulations. Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design (2018)
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  • Daniela K. Rosner
Artist in Residence: Critical Fabulations
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Artist in Residence: World Factory
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Artists in Residence
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Agata Engelmann: SVLBRD. Shh.. my child, I will make your love eternal
Arts as Situated Knowledges of Nature
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child's coat made of fish skin with floral motifs
Arctic Indigenous Fish Skin
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  • Several Scholars
Baselining Nature
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  • Sebastián Ureta
Baselining Pollution
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Beekeeping in the End Times film poster
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  • Larisa Jasarevic
Beekeeping in the End Times
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A Transnational History of 20th-Century Mountaineering
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Between Worlds
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Benefits of Bird Offal
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Production of vaginal specula for farm animals, Kibbutz Ein-Harod, circa 1940. Source: Israel State Archives/TS-38/10815.
Bovine Regimes
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Breeding Against Extinction
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Budgeting and Planning Religion
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Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys
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Capturing Knowledge
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Concepts of Sound in Early Medieval China
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Changes and Vanishing of the Astrological Field Allocation Knowledge
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  • Yulei Yang
Changes in Chinese Traditional Maps
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Charting Interior and Exterior Worlds
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Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers 
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On Soybeans
Cross-Border Science-Making in the Sinosphere
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Oeconomic Chemistry and Recycling
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Clinical Judgement
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