A hundred years ago, the world’s first projection planetariums opened in Germany and Austria. Their immersive, moving 360° visualization of the night sky imparted astronomical knowledge and triggered euphoria. It was not only the projection...
The paper describes the home of western German families as a never-ending project of repairing in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945. The main focus lays on gendered practices and appropriations of space. Repairing and maintaining were...
In academic and public discourses, practices of repurposing – like practices of repairing – are usually either interpreted as universal, timeless activities and thus deprived of their historical context, or reduced to a coping strategy in times...