The sociotechnical roots of smart mobility: Bike sharing since 1965 Journal of Transport History. 41, 2, p. 134-159 J. Ploeger, R. Oldenziel 1 Aug 2020 The search for “smart” or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based mobility solutions goes back to at least the 1960s. The Provo anarchist Luud Schimmelpennink
Erik van der Vleuten's contribution to the Material Civilization section of the online EHNE Digital Encyclopedia of European History was recently published here. Read more about this ambitious bi-lingual project (published in French and English) here. Excerpt: The ‘European blackout’ of Saturday evening, 4 November 2006 was remarkable. In Northern Germany, close to the
You can register as attendee for the 2020 digital congress of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC: A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis From June 26 onward you can only register as attendee. Attendees can attend all sessions, they have access to the program and the abstracts, but they
Interesting reading for the upcoming ICOHTEC 2020 conference on Technology & Crises: Earlier this year, Technology & Culture published a Forum on ‘History and Technology in an Age of Grand Challenges.’ (Technology and Culture Volume 61, Number 1, January 2020, pp.260-332) Short description and ToC: In 2016 we formed a number of transnational working groups
This publication is an outcome of the transnational research group Technology, Environment and Resources in the Tensions of Europe research program Technology and Societal Challenges 1800-2050, as well as the Eindhoven History Lab program on Global Sustainability History. The special issue was co-edited by Frank Veraart and contains an article by History Lab researchers Frank
Welcome to the new website of the Eindhoven History Lab. The site is published just before the start of the ICOHTEC2020 conference, the first digital conference in the field of history of technology (and hosted by the Eindhoven History Lab). Content will be added gradually in the coming months. The website has been designed by
Forum: History and Technology in an Age of 'Grand Challenges' Technology and Culture Vol. 61.1 (2020): 260-332 Erik van der Vleuten (guest editor), Karena Kalmbach, Andreas Marklund, Anna Åberg, Matthias Heymann, Per Högselius, Elena Kochetkova, John Martin, Ole Sparenberg, Frank Veraart, Ute Hasenöhrl, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, Ruth Oldenziel,
Connected by oil: A framework to analyze the connected sustainability histories of the Niger and Rhine Deltas, 1950-2015 The Extractive Industries and Society 7.1 (2020): 50-67. Frank Veraart, Jan-Pieter Smits, and Erik van der Vleuten March 2020 This article proposes and pilots a mixed-methods approach to bring the sustainability
Creating, capturing, and circulating commodities: the technology and politics of material resource flows, from the 19th century to the present The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(1), 1-7 Frank Veraart, Anna Åberg, Hanna Vikström Extractive resources are unevenly distributed geographically and our dependence on such resources is growing, which has
A U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 Berghahn Books, 2020. Emanuel, Martin, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel, eds. From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a