RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

            

As of 2020, the Eindhoven History Lab hosts the editorship of two international scholarly journals. In 2020-2025 Ruth Oldenziel succeeds Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma) as editor-in-chief of the pre-eminent history of technology journal Technology and Culture, the quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology SHOT.  The first issue prepared by her Eindhoven team is the 2020 July issue. In addition, TC managing editor Hermione Giffard is also editor-in-chief of ICON, the journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC.

Since 2017, our in-house Foundation for the History of Technology hosts the secretariat of the Society for the History of Technology SHOT, the largest history of technology association worldwide. Jan Korsten serves as SHOT secretary. The secretariat team is also heavily involved in organizing the SHOT annual conferences.

                  

Together with our international colleagues, we initiated and coordinate the pan-European research program Technology and societal challenges 1800-2050. The program is coordinated by Erik van der Vleuten on behalf of the Tensions of Europe managament committee.

Our Sustainable Urban Mobility/ Cycling Cities program works with local governments and stakeholder organizations to develop historically-informed policy studies supporting today’s sustainable urban mobility transition. Why did motorized traffic historically replace sustainable walking and cycling, and how can the latter be empowered today to create a more sustainable future?

        

The book Kwetsbare Welvaart 1850-2050  by Harry Lintsen, Jan Pieter Smits, Frank Veraart and John Grin interprets Dutch history from a well-being and sustainability perspective. It is widely read by policy makers and others working to replace GDP by well-being and sustainability as a guideline for national policy. The English version is Open Access available here.

Our textbook on engineering and societal challenges ca. 1800-today has reached over 10.000 engineering students in Eindhoven and elsewhere.

ALL TIME HIGHLIGHTS

6-volume book series: Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-2019). Series editors: Johan Schot & Phil Scranton. Winner of the EASST Freeman Prize.

The book series is the capstone on one-and-a-half decade of transnational research collaboration in the first Tensions of Europe research program on Technology and European integration/ fragmentation 1950-2000. A team of 15 authors synthesized the research findings in this prize-winning series. The work was initiated and coordinated by the Foundation SHT.

The transnational research association Tensions of Europe was founded in a meeting in Eindhoven in 1999. This association has since grown from a European Science Foundation network of excellence into a warm and innovative research community. Johan Schot and Ruth Oldenziel served as first and long-time ToE Chair and vice chair, and Jan Korsten as ToE secretary. Later Erik van der Vleuten also served as Chair.

13-volume book series (in Dutch): History of technology in the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries (Walburg Pers, 1992-2003).

This book series was a collaborative effort of over 70 historians in the Netherlands. It was initiated and coordinated by the Foundation SHT in Eindhoven, which was established for the purpose. The program was pivotal to the establishment of the field of history of technology in the Netherlands. It was published in two sets:

• 6-volume book series: Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland  De wording van een moderne samenleving 1800-1890 (Walburg Pers 1992-1995). Series editors: Harry Lintsen, Martijn Bakker, Ernst Homburg, Dick van Lente, Johan Schot, and Geert Verbong.
• 7-volume series: Techniek in Nederland in de 20e eeuw (Walburg Pers 1998-2003). Series editors: Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, Arie Rip, Adri Albert de la Bruhèze.
• Volume 7 of the 2nd series was published in English: Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The Age of Contested Modernization, 1850-1970 (MIT Press, 2010). Edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, and Arie Rip.