Luxtime Machine (LuxTIME)

How to study the impact of environmental changes on the health of the local population in a long term perspective? A test bed for multi-layered research.

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Dec 2020
Duration in months:

46
Funding:

Audacity from University
Principal Investigator(s):

Andreas Fickers

Aida Horaniet

Laurent Pfister (external)

Christophe Hissler (external)

About

LuxTime is an Audacity project whose main objective is to build and visualize different datasets that include information from three different fields and scientific perspectives, namely eco-hydrology, environmental cheminformatics and history.
LuxTIME uses the industrialisation of the Minette region, as a testbed for methodological and epistemological reflections on how to study the impact of environmental changes on the health of the local population in a long term perspective. By mixing ‘contextual information’ based on archival evidence with ‘scientific evidence’ deriving from chemical, biological, or medical investigations, the project explores new ground in interpreting “big data of the past” in a truly interdisciplinary setting.
The Belval-case is meant to critically test the analytical potential of a multi-layered research design which – this is the mid-term ambition – be expanded into a national case study; that is the building of a real “Luxembourg Time Machine” including many different kinds of data from many different kind of institutions.

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