Alain Mueller

The lecture series “Thinking (further) Through Materialities” builds on the 2023 “Thinking through Materialities: Insights from and for Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology”. It continues to explore how “matter comes to matter,” and related questions.
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Session 2 (14:00 - 15:30)

1. Ksenia Shepetina, "Caring for the Damaged Landscape"
2. Mylène Tanferri, “Signal of Care"
3. Juliette Salme (online), "Taking Care of What Will Take Care"
4. Demetra Kourri (online), "The Hybrid City”

Session 1 (12:00 - 13:30)

1. Daria Volkova, "Who inhabits the cellar?"
2. Rachan Daimary, "Signals in the Wild"
3. Ada Arendt, "Unseeing the Split"
4. Karolina Sobecka, "Thinking with Heat"

Here we are #STSCH2025!
Come join us tomorrow and listen to great contributions.

Handmade relief models as matters of concern: Maintaining, restoring, and repairing mountains? - Alain Müller, 2025 Through a case study of what are known as ‘relief models’—for example of areas of landscapes—this article approaches representational objects in and as practice...

The second, “Handmade Relief Models as Matters of Concern: Maintaining, Restoring, and Repairing Mountains?” (published in Social Studies of Science), is concerned with how they are preserved and cared for over time.

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Crafting Between Maps, Powders, Pigments, and the Specter of Modern Science: Handmade Relief Models as Ontological Operations and Experiments - Alain Müller, 2025 Handmade relief models are three-dimensional, true-to-scale models that re-present landscape sections like mountains. Departing from the rhetoric according to w...

The first, “Crafting Between Maps, Powders, Pigments, and the Specter of Modern Science: Handmade Relief Models as Ontological Operations and Experiments” (published in @sthv.bsky.social), unfolds their making.

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I’m very pleased to announce the publication of this “diptych” of two articles in which I trace the sociomaterial biographies of so-called “relief models”—i.e. three-dimensional models of mountains—at the crossroads of science, craft, art, and museography.