This July the FutureSpace Team attended, presented, and organised a panel at the EASST-4S 2024 conference in Amsterdam this year, the largest international STS conference to date.
Together with Matjaz Vidmar (University of Edinburgh), Nina and Joseph organised the panel Outer Space: Imaginaries, Infrastructures, and Interventions. With 18 presentations over four sessions, the panel was one of the largest at the conference. We were fortunate to have Richard Tutton (University of York), Eleanor Armstrong (University of Leicester), and David Jeevendrampillai (The Centre for Outer Space Studies, University College London) as discussants. They each generously provided further insights into the diverse contributions.
You can find the full programme for the panel here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/13841
Nina and Joseph presented their paper titled “Following the Rocket Around: Making a Topography of Earth-Space Relations” and Philipp presented his research-in-progress in a paper titled “Exploring Strategic Visioning for European Space Futures in the making”.
Kai then contributed to the panel Repair in Outer Space, Repairing Outer Space with his and Nina’s joint-paper “Guardians of the orbits? Space situational awareness and taming of security leftovers in outer space”.
Across the conference, it was truly inspiring to see how outer space encompasses so many different research practices, perspectives and approaches which, for a few days, were creatively and generatively brought together in Amsterdam.
