THESys Member
Heike Weber is a historian of technology and the environment. She has been head of the History of Technology unit at TU Berlin since 2019. Her research focuses on everyday technologies and infrastructures from the 20th and 21st centuries. More recently, she has published work on topics such as reuse, repair, recycling, waste, decay and abandonment, and toxic legacies. Adopting an ‘envirotech’ approach, Heike Weber is also examining past sociotechnical shifts (e.g. in mobility, energy and resource use) as potential ‘useable pasts’ for more sustainable future transitions.
Research Interests
- Waste, reuse, recycling
- Temporalities of technology
- Maintenance and repair
- History of engineers, in particular, the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
