Repairing pipes and fixing plans: The entangled history of Hamburg’s water and energy services

International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Tallin, 15 August 2023

The aim of this conference presentation was to show how maintenance and repair can be a useful conceptual framework to make visible the entanglements of different infrastructural services. Based on initial empirical findings, I exemplified the spatial, temporal, material, and institutional interconnections of the gas and water industry in Hamburg. In doing so, I was able to demonstrate how this perspective brings together different infrastructural temporalities and scales.

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