Rachele Delucchi: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2021 |
| Name | Dr. Rachele Delucchi |
| Address | Institut für Geschichte ETH Zürich, RZ F 19 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 632 88 09 |
| rachele.delucchi@history.gess.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0526-00L | Producing Emptiness and Working with Nothing. Vacuum Technology in the 20th Century  | 3 credits | 2S | D. Gugerli, R. Delucchi | |
| Abstract | The seminar examines the powerful effects of emptiness. We want to understand the materiality, the production and the (industrial) effects of the liminal space called “vacuum", on which scientists and engineers worked in the 20th century. We observe pumps, coating systems, rockets and thin films in essays and catalogs, at exhibitions and in patents. | ||||
| Objective | Students learn to read very different types of text against the grain and understand technical change. | ||||
| Lecture notes | The reading program is available on Moodle at the beginning of the semester. Participation in the sessions is required. A graded semester performance will take place. Students should complete research tasks resulting from the individual sessions. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Die Zahl der Teilnehmenden ist auf 40 beschränkt. | ||||