Launching for STS-CH’s 25th anniversary in 2026, Stories of STS & Switzerland is a collective, narrative and material history of the field in Switzerland. On this webpage, images, photos and anecdotes – accompanied by short texts – trace both the well-known milestones and the less-documented everyday life of our community. Contributions are welcome from anyone who has practiced, studied, taught or supported STS in Switzerland.
Submissions will be curated and edited by the STS-CH Communication Team with the support of the Webmaster team.
Geographies of Responsibilities
by Alexandra Hofmänner, Loïc Riom, 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. …
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 …
Prize Contest (Summer School Lausanne 2001)
by Regula Valérie Burri and Martina Merz // A Prize Contest was organized for the participants of the Summer School Lausanne 2001, its questionnaire (see picture) appealing to the …
What if STS in Switzerland was a bit like Bruno Latour, but with chocolate coating?
by Florian Jaton // 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 …
Why did we create STS-CH in the first place?
by Marc Audétat // Around 1998, within the Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie (Science and Technology Studies) research group of the Swiss Society of Sociology (SSS), composed of members from the …