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

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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Cloth Britannia in the Industrial Revolution
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Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire
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Gaspar Schott's Magia universalis naturae et artis
Collecting Ears
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Noise and Acoustics in Colonial Taiwan
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Korea Daedong Yeojido
Coloring Maps in East Asia
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scan of page from the chapter of heavenly patters (tianwen)
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  • Several Scholars
Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere
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Late fourteenth century Mongolian-language letter from Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor of Ming China, to the Mongol Noble Ajashira transcribed in Chinese characters
Translating Authority: The Mongols and Ming China
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Comparing Ancient Medical Encyclopedia
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Demographic Regimes
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Nansenbushu No Zu 南瞻部洲之圖
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  • Wei-Ting Yang
14th-19th Century Japanese Buddhist World Maps
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Jade in the Qianlong Era
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Coping Mechanisms and Food Insecurity
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CoronaPapers1
  • Katja Jug
Corona Papers
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Cosmological Images in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings
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Stonemasonry Apprenticeships in Scotland
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Cultures of Innovation in Global History
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Transience during Chinese Sixteen States Period
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  • Several Scholars
Decolonization in Action
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Ratcliffe, Raptors, Conservation Science, and Politics
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Different Culture, Different Climate
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Diplomacy on the Move: The Case of Annam
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Distillation in China
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wooden ceiling in Buddhist temple
Dome of Heaven
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Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
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The International Biological Program (IBP) in South Korea, 1963–1975
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Economics as a Coordination Tool
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Color in Traditional Craft Practice in South India
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Empire of Ice
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  • Tristan G. Brown
Empire of the Night Sky
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