How was knowledge produced by different people in different times and at different places? How was knowledge stored, managed, classified, organized, deployed, forgotten, and recycled? Finally, how did such practices affect what counted as knowledge? The series invites contributions on the ‘long’ early modern period in Europe and publishes also works on global cultures of knowledge under European influence.

Hier soll nicht ein vereinfachendes Für oder Wider partizipativer Verfahren in der Forschung und Vermittlung thematisiert, sondern ein historisch weiter und analytisch vertiefter Blick auf das Gefüge von Laienforschung und Fachlichkeit geworfen werden. Die Beiträge Setzen historisch bei der Figur des Amateurs im späten 19. Jh. und dessen Professionalisierung in wissenschaftlichen Sammelprojekten des 20. Jh. an, thematisieren die Situation im Kontext der Neuen Sozialen und Ökologischen Bewegungen ab den 1960er Jahren und behandeln auch aktuelle, unterschiedliche Erscheinungsformen von Partizipation, die individuelles Engagement, öffentliche Ressourcen des Staates und Unternehmen neu anordnen.

The suburban, detached single-family home is a major legacy of the Fordist decades of the twentieth century. In 2011, two-thirds of German households occupied such single-family houses. These buildings have embodied the political support for a way of life and type of living arrangement since the 1950s, and continue to symbolize dreams of home, prosperity, and social status. West German suburbs today consist mainly of single-family homes built between the 1950s and 1980s. However, municipal administrations and politics at the local level are now faced with the emptying of single-family housing areas at the edges of villages and small towns. At the same time, young families in particular are calling for building plots in the countryside. Whilst remaining aware of critiques of the single-family home in urban planning and architecture, this interdisciplinary volume offers fresh insights into this type of dwellings—from its place in everyday life and popular culture, to changing welfare regimes and demographic change, and to the implementation of ecological frameworks in the construction industry.