From June 11 until June 13, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Joseph Popper attended the 10th STS Italia Conference, organised around the theme “Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”. They presented two papers based on ongoing research within the FutureSpace project. The first, titled “Following the rocket around: Towards a material-temporal topography of large-scale infrastructures” examines the material-temporal dimensions of large infrastructures and their politics through a topographical analysis of the European Ariane 6 rocket. The second paper, “They Also Call It The Moon: Connecting Imagination and Technoscience at the LUNA analog facility”, explores the distinct material and imaginative connections at the European LUNA analog facility.
Longer form abstracts for each paper can be found in the conference programme, respectively here and here.