Thinkering

The ‘lovó’ project aims to use oral history and art, to put forward several voices of Portuguese speaking grandmothers who live in the city of Esch sur Alzette and have made this place their home.

This guide offers a method to develop more collaborative public projects on the history of cities, towns, neighborhoods, with local communities.

Can large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the secrets hidden within historical documents, such as showpeople periodicals? This question propelled researchers from the universities of Antwerp, Luxembourg, and Marburg to explore the potential of LLM/AI in a one-day workshop.

The VYSH project uses various artificial intelligence technologies to create embroidery designs for the stage costumes of the Luxembourg dance group Berehyni, which popularizes historical Ukrainian dances.

Dataset from the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) was recently published on Europeana, the online platform of cultural heritage.

The aim of the oral history programme about Luxembourg diplomacy, conducted by the C²DH with the support of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to document the development of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg’s foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.

Tropy is a digital tool designed specifically for managing and annotating digital images.

This Thinkering project draws upon Daniel Richter’s knowledge about the local history of Esch-sur-Alzette, Aida Horaniet Ibanez’s expertise in data visualization, and Joëlla van Donkersgoed’s experience in public engagement.

Memory has its own pitfalls, and to provide a more tangible environment for remembering, it was decided to perform oral history interviews for the ongoing research about the “Schueberfouer” funfair on site at the fairground. The assumption was that the space of the “Schueberfouer” could trigger memories and reflections that would otherwise not emerge. However, navigating through a noisy present can prove challenging.

Escher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study ordinary sociality in a (post)industrial city undergoing fast infrastructural, urbanistic, demographic, and cultural transformations.

A contribution on office culture by BUREU team member Marco Ninno.

The newly started research project BUREU has the purpose to develop a transnational and multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of EU administrative buildings.

Five years C²DH – Five ways of innovating and sharing history.

“Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) is a new Doctoral Training Unit funded through the FNR’s PRIDE programme, that will launch in autumn 2022.

This Hard Minett Land – Eine besondere Entdeckungsreise durch Luxemburgs Süden.

LUX:PLORATIONS is one of the activities promoted by DESCOM (Doctoral Education in Science Communication), an educational project in science communication that aims at supporting interactions between academia and the public. A first volume had been released in Autumn 2020.

From comic to radio and back. The process of research as a media crossover experience.

HistorEsch is the overarching name for several public history projects that will be organised between 2021-2022 to actively involve the residents of Esch-sur-Alzette in the production of history.

Dronetv.lu is a plurilingual platform on the history of military, industrial and educational television.

There is more than just one East Berlin. People made very different experiences with the capital of the GDR. Hence there are also plenty of different memories of the East German capital. An exhibition on the history of East Berlin has to take these different perspectives into account and should be based on shared authority.