Sven Dupré's research is at the crossroads of art history and the history of science and technology. He was PI of the project ‘Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950’, supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (2015-2021). He is the PI of the NWO Smart Culture Art DATIS project on the history of glass focusing on the archives of the glass artist Sybren Valkema (1916-1996). He co-directed the project “Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World”.
Completed Projects
Project
Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages: Botanical Watercolors in Seventeenth-Century Germany and the Low Countries
01.10.2018
to 30.06.2023
Role
PhD Supervisor
Funding
NWO grant PhD in the Humanities
Project members UU
Project
Art DATIS - Integration and Improvement of Sources on Glass for a Sustainable Future
01.09.2018
to 01.09.2022
General project description
The project focuses on the questions of how historical sources were used to innovate glass production and education in the twentieth century, and how we can efficiently link the enormous amount of newly digitized art technical sources on artistic glass production, such as object documentation, technical texts, images, and research data. The project will digitize unique materials from the archives of glass artist Sybren Valkema (1916-1996), managed by Stichting Vrij Glas, and integrate and enrich them with existing databases containing different kinds of data on the history of artistic glass production. The project is designed to link with the RKD Explore and ARTECHNE databases.
Role
Project Leader
Funding
NWO grant NWO Smart Culture - Big Data / Digital Humanities
Project members UU
External project members
- Evangelos Kanoulas (UvA)
Project
ARTECHNE: Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise
01.09.2016
to 28.02.2021
Role
Project Leader
Funding
EU grant European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
Project members UU
External project members
- Maartje Stols-Witlox (UvA); Tonny Beentjes (UvA); Marcia Vilarigues (NOVA University of Lisbon)
Project
Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World, 1450-1800
01.09.2015
to 31.12.2017
General project description
The Global Knowledge Society is a large-scale research project that investigates the historical roots of knowledge societies. The innovative capability of the present-day knowledge society depends upon the large-scale collection and distribution of information on the basis of which knowledge is produced and multiplied. The process of production and distribution happens at a global level. Facilitating knowledge and information exchange is almost invariably accompanied by regulation of its distribution. This project investigates the historical roots of the global knowledge society. Its long-term ambition is to contribute to our understanding of the knowledge society in a global context and to gain insights in its development up to today. Researchers are hosted at the NIAS and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. The project aims to be highly innovative, not only in its approach and method, but also in its output. It will not only result in a number of studies and volumes, but will also develop tools for the study of knowledge societies in general, as well as a handbook on knowledge societies that can be used by students and senior academics alike.
Role
Project Leader
Funding
NWO grant Internationalisation Grant
Project members UU