Category: Stories of STS & Switzerland
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Picking up the thread – by Emilie Bovet and Nolwenn Bühler
We would like to start with one of the General Assemblies we organized. We were visiting an exhibition of the Museum der Kulturen of Basel Striking Patterns: Global Traces in Local Ikat Fashion (Oct. 2016-March 2017), wandering slowly between immense clothes, whose patterns and colors, did not immediately speak to…
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Landing in a plural context: notes from an outsider inside Swiss STS – by Luca Chiapperino
Arriving in Lausanne in 2016 felt like touching down in a place I already knew, only to realize Swiss STS is less a clearcut community than a relay of languages, legacies, and lively streams of scholarship. I arrived in Lausanne as a postdoc in 2016 with a map drawn elsewhere:…
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Geographies of Responsibilities – by Loïc Riom, Alexandra Hofmänner, Tanja Schneider and Aline Stehrenberger
Flipchart sheets, colorful post-its, and arrows—the picture unpacks the invisible, scriptive, and mundane work to make STS-CH exist. August 26, 2021 – UniTobler, Bern: flipchart sheets, long lists organized in columns, dozens of colorful post-its with keywords, arrows connecting them in all directions. From the outside, this multiplication of notes…
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Prize Contest (Summer School Lausanne 2001) – by Regula Valérie Burri and Martina Merz
On the questionnaire of a Prize Contest organized for the participants of the Summer School Lausanne 2001 (screen shot of the corresponding email). A Prize Contest was organized for the participants of the Summer School Lausanne 2001, its questionnaire (see picture) appealing to the participants’ expertise, skill, imagination, and sense…
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Why did we create STS-CH in the first place? – by Marc Audétat
In the late 1990s, a sociology research group helped spark the creation of STS-CH through the 1999 Zürich Spring School, where organizers also launched a long-running national mailing list that grew steadily and remained technologically unchanged for over two decades. Around 1998, within the Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie (Science and Technology…
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What if STS in Switzerland was a bit like Bruno Latour, but with chocolate coating? – by Florian Jaton
There is a logo and there is chocolate. And both may tell us something (or not) about STS in Switzerland. There is a logo, the one STS-CH chose to define its visual identity in 2001: a Berlin key. Needless to say, this is also the title and topic of a…