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«Novye idei» i disciplinarnye tradicii: perevodcheskie i publikatorskie strategii izdatel'stva «Obrazovanie» v 1910–1920-e gody

The subject of the article is the history of popular and authoritative series of St. Petersburg publishing house “Obrazovanie” (1909-1928), which on the eve of the First World War played an important role in Russia in the restructuring of key disciplines o ...

2024

Repair! Reclaiming Berlin’s Workers’ Housing through Collaborative Transformation

Tim Martens

The phase of economic and humanitarian emergencies after the Great War functioned as a laboratory for architects to develop quick, rational responses. But socialist visions became stuck in privatization, and values of a bygone society were maintained by pr ...

2023

Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centered on Europe in spite ...

2023

Exile and Resilience. Studies at the camp d’internement universitaire in Lausanne

Salvatore Aprea

The essay investigates the intellectual production developed by Italian refugees hosted in the military internment camp opened in Lausanne in January 1944 and active until the spring of 1945, when the refuges returned to Italy. In the complex and controver ...

2021

STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

Under the title "State Fiction" (2014–2021) the artist's long-term research focusses on the zone that divides the two Koreas, a locus of congealed international Cold War interests and a source of improbable images. After an internationally brokered armisti ...

self-published2021

OASIS OF PEACE. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

As part of her exhibition Oasis of Peace. Neutral Only On The Outside at Centre culturel suisse, the artist Denise Bertschi talks with Heonik Kwon (Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge). For her exhibiti ...

2021

The operational space for divertor power exhaust in DEMO with a super-X divertor

Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Mirko Wensing

SOLPS-ITER simulations of the European DEMO reactor with a Super-X divertor, which has larger major radius at the outer target and increased connection length, show an increased operational space for divertor power exhaust compared to the conventional sing ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating ...

ELSEVIER2020

From technocrats to laymen: Community planning and self-help housing for workers in Marshall Plan countries

Sila Karatas

With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...

2020

Public housing for domestication: The socio-spatial politics of settling the Bulgarian immigrants in Turkey after 1950 and 1989

Sila Karatas

Turkey has been allowing immigrants from the early years of the republic. Most immigrants were from Greece due to the nation building policies after Lausanne Peace Agreement of 1923, forced to displacement through population exchanges between Turkey and Gr ...

2019

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