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The Alps as resources

Forms of cultural inscription

Spaces of imagination

Renewable energy sources in water

The Alps as resources

Renewable energy sources and the Alpine region

Singing man in nature

Spaces of imagination

The Alps in Swiss Song

Photovoltaic systems in sunlight

The Alps as resources

The Alps and Ukraine: Photovoltaics to strengthen regional and national energy self-sufficiency

People in the mountains

Forms of cultural inscription

Mountain ice. Rock crystal from the Alps in the Mesolithic period

Picture of a steppe with mountains in the background

Spaces of imagination

Reading alpine narratives in Swiss missionary photography

Dam wall in the mountains

The Alps as resources

Transnational dams in the Alpine region, 1870-1974

Black and white image of ice

Spaces of imagination

From the Threatening to the Threatened: Tipping Points of Alpine Ice and Snow at the Morteratsch Glacier and in the Tödi Area

Large stone in nature

Spaces of imagination

Mountain Warfare and Reduits in Literature

Musician Hanns in the Gand with guitar

Spaces of imagination

Hanns in der Gand. soldier singer, song leader

Excavator in quarry

Forms of cultural inscription

Lessons from another world - Chapter IV

A person ice fishing

The Alps as resources

Il Pesch sbatta - The poetry of ice fishing and the rediscovery of silence

Yellow flowers in the mountains

Forms of cultural inscription

Up, Up, Up

black and white picture of Turbine

The Alps as resources

Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure through Time

Dam wall and reservoir

Forms of cultural inscription

Renewable energy in alpine landscapes – Making infrastructure perceptible to the senses

One hand holds rhubarb

Forms of cultural inscription

Alps in motion: Making Ruins

Lake in the mountains

The Alps as resources

The Alps for a climate-positive Switzerland

Word cow on stone

Spaces of imagination

The ambivalence of cartography

Elsa Roth (left) with her family skiing in Mürren in February 1929

Forms of cultural inscription

Elsa Roth (1906-2000)

Men in front of a railroad

The Alps as resources

Invisible guests. Yugoslav seasonal workers in the Swiss Alps 1970-1991

Children and young people in water next to waterworks

The Alps as resources

Water flows, turbines turn, and lights come on: History of Hydroelectricity in Slovenia until World War II

Hotel Maria Flora at the Sella Pass

Forms of cultural inscription

Tourism Development in South Tyrol

Slope with artificial snow in green nature

The Alps as resources

The cultural perception and representation of artificial snow

Cord on icy ground

Spaces of imagination

Shipwreck in the Alps. Failure as a Motif of Literary Depictions of the Alps in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Tracks in the snow

Forms of cultural inscription

From the home midwife to the hospital midwife - midwives from Basel city, Baselland and Uri from 1870 to 1960

Old and new image of a farming family at work

The Alps as resources

Ageing well in the mountains of Uri

Pyrolysis

The Alps as resources

Biochar and electricity - alpine pyrolysis plants

Material ropeway Unterwaengi

The Alps as resources

Rope Transmitter

Snow in Surselva

Spaces of imagination

Materialities of Obsolescence: A Study of Snow, Seasons and Changing Conditions in the Swiss Alps