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The 2026 conference of stsing e.V.
25-27 March 2026, Ruhr-University Bochum
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Call for case participation
The call for case participation is open until December 15th 2025.
Call for papers
The call for papers is open until December 15th 2025.
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Sorting Biographies in Ruins and Fragments: Computational Methods as a Promising Approach for STS?
Lina Franken, Dennis Möbus
Leerstand im Stadtbild: Ein altes Apothekenhaus als Kristallationspunkt urbaner (nicht-)Entwicklung
Michelle Harcz, Jamna El Moutaoikil, David Schupp, Stefan Laser
Who and What Tells the Future? Re-storying Deindustrialised Places Across Europe through Everyday Objects
Fiona Schrading, Andrei Mihail, Hannah Spruce, Rozemarijn de Kwaasteniet, Anamaria Depner
Post-Coal Futures in Lusatia: Mobility and Communication Infrastructures as Sites of Structural Transformation
Helena Cermeño Mediavilla, Max Langner
Before the Ruins of Speed - The Transrapid as an Abandonment of a Sociotechnical Future
Juri Nitzling
Toxic Heritage Ruhr
Tina Asmussen, Frederike Lange, Carlina Rossée, Peter Oakley
From industrial ruins to ecological renewal. Developing a toolkit for actionable interventions.
Julia Hoffmann, Natalie Sontopski
Ruins and repairs of academic publishing
Alexander Schniedermann
Artistic approaches to aluminium extraction in the Ruhr Valley
Ruby Reding
Reactivating archives: interventions in academic complicity
Tahani Nadim, Stella Weitkamp, Baldeep Kaur Grewal, Nabil Hamdan
What is participation in your case? – A workshop to methodographically analyse and jointly reflect on the opportunities and challenges of participatory research approaches as a case in and for STS
Julie Sascia Mewes, Dana Mahr, Hoai Truong, Britta Acksel, Claudia Göbel
Anarchive of time – remembering and imagining before ruins
Stefan Gebhard, Johanne Hoppstock
Poetic place-making amidst coal’s multiple afterlives: A laboratory of social dreaming in Recklinghausen Süd
Ute Eickelkamp, Axel Schuch
Corrosion: The process of becoming-ruin
Tülin Fidan, Sven Bergmann, Anja Binkofski
Urban (hi-)stories in past, present and future: Re-shaping the city, Dortmund edition
Sandra Abels
From Friction to Cooperation: Rethinking Heterogeneous Positions in Collaborate Experiences
Tanja Bogusz, Camino Eck, Lucie Fortun, Alix Levain, Joanne Clavel, Céline Jacob, Claire Macher
Empowering Map Collection Research with Digital Tools
Diego Siqueira, Nina Straub, Selina Luedecke
Digital Twins before Ruins
Randi Heinrichs, Armin Beverungen
Doing feminist and anti-colonial science - art and stories at the kitchen table as intervention
Freyja Wang, Asli Atasoy, Johanna Kretschmer, Paula Kaskel, Sarvin Jebreilzadehkaregar, Nara Hagh
Duisburg Ruhrort – From an industrial to a sustainable and just neighborhood
Sonja Knobbe
The stsing vibe: Thinking through cases
Our conference cultivates a sensibility attuned to the entanglements of knowledge, practice, and place.
2nd stsing conference at Ruhr-University Bochum: Before Ruins
We are excited to welcome you to the 2nd conference of the stsing e.V. It will take place March 25–27 2026 at Ruhr-University Bochum.