Colin Sterling, Jeff Diamanti, Harry Reddick, and Selçuk Balamir have published the article “Inheriting energy infrastructures: from deindustrialisation to decarbonisation” in International Journal of Heritage Studies. Around the world, sites associated with coal, oil and gas are being transformed into ‘renewable’ energy hubs or cultural ‘incubators’ for the so-called green transition. This article argues that…
In summer 2025, UvA and E-WERK collaborated to turn Luckenwalde into a research laboratory and festival ground where students, artists, and citizens co-created new ways of seeing, narrating, and practising energy transition. There were two main interventions: This report documents the process of making these interventions and their impact.
Mounir Sabeh Affaki (ISCTE) has published the article “From extraction to engagement: Post-mining transition and science communication in Lousal, Portugal” in the journal The Extractive Industries and Society based on his PITCH work. The article is available to read Open Access. Former mining sites are increasingly tasked with mediating extractive pasts while engaging publics with contemporary…
In 2025–2026, in close collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, E-WERK Luckenwalde effectively delivered a comprehensive public programme engaging diverse audiences in the intersections of energy, heritage, and urban transformation. This video documents our major activities including our interdisciplinary summer school ‘Energy Literacy for a Just Transition’ and the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest festival.
PITCH member Rodney Harrison (UCL) has published an article on coal mining-related industrial heritage sites in the UK in the context of the conjuncture of the fortieth anniversary of the 1984–1985 UK miners’ strike, the closure of the last coal-fired power station in the UK and contemporary global transitions away from fossil fuels. Harrison analyzes…
Suzanne Ros, PhD Candidate at the University of Stavanger, reflects on her experience of the PITCH-Funded PhD school at E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Germany. This post originally appeared on The Current, blog of the research project “Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions,” and is reposted here with agreement from the author. What does it mean…
E-WERK together with University of Amsterdam organized a series of PITCH events in Luckenwalde. These included a cultural festival highlighting the ties between energy and culture and a summer school with masters and PhD students. These activities grappled with fundamental questions about industrial heritage and energy: How can we understand the different ways energy manifests…
