{"id":33,"date":"2017-10-19T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:50:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"preArticleParagraphs\">\n<div class=\"lead \">\n<p>Research and education at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment focus on technological change from a historical perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraphs\">\n<p>A starting point is that technology and science are cultural phenomena that shape and affect conditions for life on earth. Equally fundamental to our work is the idea that historical studies are crucial for understanding present situations as well as future developments. In other words, studies of history contribute to a better understanding of the conditions for technological developments and changes in society. We believe that such insights are valuable for future engineers as well as for other students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/philhist\/historia\">Please visit our homepage to read more about us, our teaching and our research.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_2013.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_2013-625x417.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_2013-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_2013-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research and education at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment focus on technological change from a historical perspective. A starting point is that technology and science are cultural phenomena that shape and affect conditions for life on earth. Equally fundamental to our work is the idea that historical studies are crucial for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}