Current Projects

• The ‚System of Care’ of the Maternal-Fetal Surgery by Spina Bifida. Establishing a Clinical Standard and a Social Norm
  Sandra Gratwohl
• Academized Artists (funded by a Spark grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
  Kris Decker

Completed Projects

• Desktop Studies: Documents as Research Materials in the Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities
  Christoph Hoffmann in cooperation with Michael Hagner (ETH Zurich)

• Modeling, Measuring, and Designing Economic Growth. The Neoclassical Growth Model as a Historical Artifact, 1930s-1960s
  Verena Halsmayer

• Decker, Kris, Exkursion ins Hinterland, in: Merkur, Bd. 855, 2020, 41–52.
• Decker, Kris, Materialschicksale. Randnotizen zur Klimaforschung, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 13–36.
• Decker, Kris, Data Struggles. The Life and Times of a Database in Historical Climatology, in: Social Science Information, Bd. 57 (1), 2018, 6–30.
• Fischer, Philipp, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Christoph Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Hannes Rickli, Natures of Data. A Discussion between Biology, History and Philosophy of Science and Art, Zurich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020.
• Halsmayer, Verena, Artifacts in the Contemporary History of Economics, in: Till Düppe, Roy E. Weintraub (Hg.), A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, London: Routledge, 2019, 157–176.
• Halsmayer, Verena, Material des Ökonomischen, ökonomisches Material. Das Vermessen von Input-Output-Systemen am Harvard Economic Research Project, 1947–1952, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 111–138.
• Halsmayer, Verena, A Model to "Make Decisions and Take Actions": Leif Johansen’s Multi-Sector Growth Model, Computerized Macroeconomic Planning, and Resilient Infrastructures for Policy-Making, in: History of Political Economy, Bd. 49, 2017, Supplement (Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970, hgg. von Roger E. Backhouse and Béatrice Cherrier), 158–186.
• Halsmayer, Verena, From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multi-Purpose Design, in: History of Political Economy, Bd. 46, 2014, Supplement (MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, hgg. von Roy E. Weintraub), 229–251.
• Halsmayer, Verena, Der Ökonom als ‘engineer in the design sense’ – Modellierungspraxis und professionelles Selbstverständnis in Robert Solows ‘Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth’, in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 36, 2013, 245–259. 
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Multiple Data, in: Perspectives on Science, Bd. 28, 2020, 684–699.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Schreiben im Forschen. Verfahren, Szenen, Effekte, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Forschungsmaterial: Eutrigla gurnardus, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 151–175.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Does a Glow Worm See? Sigmund Exner’s Study of the Compound Eye, in: Representations, Bd. 138 (Spring), 2017, 37–58.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Processes on Paper: Writing Procedures as Non-Material Research Devices, in: Science in Context, Bd. 26, 2013, 279–303.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Die Arbeit der Wissenschaften, Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2013.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Constant Differences. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the Concept of the Observer in Early Nineteenth-Century Practical Astronomy, and the History of the Personal Equation, in: British Journal for the History of Science, Bd. 40, 2007, 333–365.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Unter Beobachtung. Die Sinne der Naturforschung 1750-1830, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, The Design of Disturbance. Physics Institutes and Physics Research in Germany, 1870-1910, in: Perspectives on Science, Bd. 9, 2001, 173–195.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, Peter Berz (Hg.), Über Schall. Ernst Machs und Peter Salchers Geschoßfotografien, Göttingen: Wallstein Ver­­lag, 2001.
• Hoffmann, Christoph, „Der Dichter am Apparat“. Medientechnik, Experimentalpsychologie und Tex­te Robert Musils 1899-1942, Mün­chen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997.
• Hounshell, Eric, Verena Halsmayer, How Does Economic Knowledge Have a Politics? On the Frustrated Attempts of John K. Galbraith and Robert M. Solow to Fix the Political Meaning of Economic Models, in:  KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, Bd. 4 (2): The Public Interest, 2020, 163–193.