The event is designed to locate STS research explicitly within practical contexts, enabling participants to contribute and develop their research in relation to current issues in the Ruhr area. We will put a focus on engaging with concrete, situated cases.
We invite you to immerse yourself in the theme Before Ruins and explore its evocative potential for science and technology studies in worlds coming to an end. And in new ones beginning. The Ruhr Valley situates Before Ruins in its extractivist past. It invites you to stand before ruins that have not yet completely deteriorated; before moments that we can still shape and that are being shaped by various actors from whom we can learn.
Save the date: 25-27 March 2026, Ruhr-University Bochum.
You can find more information on our conference website: Before Ruins.