Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture
The SGTI - Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture is a Swiss association founded in 1991 and based in Zurich .
Purpose of the association and goals
According to the association's statutes, the association promotes the public's understanding of industrial culture in the area of tension between people and the environment and of industrial heritage through interdisciplinary cooperation. He is committed to vital preservation, timely conversions and the operation of important technical cultural assets in their grown and current context.
The SGTI wants to promote the understanding of the history of technology and industrial culture and support the preservation of industrial heritage. Their activities include the inventory of industrial cultural goods and the provision of information for those interested. It created the ISIS information platform for protected industrial cultural assets in Switzerland, published 58 industrial culture bulletins IN.KU (as of February 2010) and organized various exhibitions, symposia and countless visits.
history
In 1977 ETH members founded a working group for technical understanding . This group of committed engineers became the Swiss Association for the History of Technology in 1983 . In 1996 it merged with the Society for Industrial Culture, founded in Winterthur in 1991, to form the Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture (SGTI) .
The trigger for the establishment of these associations was the fact that industrial production in Switzerland increasingly lost its importance towards the end of the 20th century. At the same time, the population's understanding of the history of technology and industrial culture - from the functioning of the individual machine to the life of the worker - decreased. What remains are empty industrial buildings and machines and systems that have become useless, which are destroyed, scrapped or converted into lofts , restaurants and bars. Part of the Swiss cultural history is disappearing.
Preserved and repurposed industrial monuments become pure scenery without any historical knowledge or technical understanding. Without this knowledge, it is difficult to understand both today's and future technology and industry.
Industrial culture project in Switzerland
The information platform for protected industrial heritage in Switzerland (ISIS) is a project of the SGTI in cooperation with the Foundation for Industrial Culture and the Swiss Heritage Protection . It provides information about the industrial history of the regions, industrial culture trails and events. By means of a survey of all municipalities and monument preservation offices, 3150 list objects have been recorded so far (as of 2009). The cantons of Bern and Zurich and a further 280 properties throughout Switzerland can currently be accessed on the Internet (2009). The aim is to cover the whole of Switzerland and areas close to the border and to raise awareness of this geographical area in its global industrial importance.
Publication IN.KU
The quarterly publication organ "IN.KU" Bulletin provides information about the activities of the association and presents individual objects. It is available on the Internet.
- IN.KU 00 The foundation of the Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture
- IN.KU 02 Greuterhof Islikon TG
- IN.KU 03 Sulzer-Halle 180, Winterthur ZH
- IN.KU 08 Nagelfabrik “Nagli”, Winterthur ZH
- IN.KU 09 railway bridge, Ossingen ZH
- IN.KU 12 industrial ensemble Hard, Winterthur ZH
- IN.KU 18 Mühlenplatz power plant , Lucerne
- IN.KU 21 Le Rhone électriques, Genève
- IN.KU 25 Fabbrica di Cioccolato Cima Norma , Dangio-Torre TI
- IN.KU 27 Bernoulli-Silo Rheinhafen, Basel BS
- IN.KU 28 Swiss Trans-Europ-Express
- IN.KU 30 Museum Neuhaus , Biel BE
- IN.KU 30 Cressier NE oil refinery
- IN.KU 36 The Gotthard Railway
- IN.KU 42 power center Schönenberg an der Thur
- IN.KU 43 Bally Schönenwerd
- IN.KU 46 Kern & Co. AG
- IN.KU 49 Conversion of Warteck, Basel
- IN.KU 52 Museum in the Armory (Schaffhausen)
- IN.KU 54 State transmitter Beromünster
- IN.KU 55 Wespimühle
- IN.KU 56 Bühler Uzwil
- IN.KU 57 Sidi Winterthur
- IN.KU 65 Seemuseum Kreuzlingen
- IN.KU 66 Sainte-Croix
- IN.KU 67 train
- IN.KU 68 Hardwasser
- IN.KU 76 Sernftalbahn
Exhibitions
- The exhibition ISIS - Canton Zurich was on view until October 5, 2010 in the Neuthal museum spinning mill near Bauma .
literature
- Hans-Peter Bärtschi : The industrial heritage and Switzerland - La Suisse et son patrimoine industriel . Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5880-7 .
- Hans-Peter Bärtschi: The finite progress - on the way to the destruction of industrial culture . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-280-02680-9 .
- Hans-Peter Bärtschi: Kilometer zero: from the construction and dismantling of industrial Switzerland , text and illustrations by Hans-Peter Bärtschi (= Vontobel series, volume 1660). Vontobel Foundation , Zurich 2004, DNB 972898816 , OCLC 605951757 (115 pages).
- Hans-Peter Bärtschi: Industrial culture in the canton of Bern. On the way to 333 witnesses of productive work . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-85869-315-4 .
- Hans-Peter Bärtschi: Industrial culture in the canton of Zurich On the way to 222 scenes of productive work . Published by the information platform for Swiss industrial heritage worthy of protection (ISIS), a project of the Swiss Society for Technology. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85869-407-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SGTI: Portrait .
- ↑ Specialist portal for the historical sciences in Switzerland: Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture (SGTI) .
- ↑ Information platform for protected industrial heritage in Switzerland ISIS .
- ↑ SGTI: IN.KU Bulletins .
- ↑ Swiss Society for Railway History: Project Industrial Culture Switzerland .