Publications | Media | Workshops | Talks
On Wednesday 4 December, Joseph presented ongoing research in an online seminar hosted by the Linköping Space Studies Institute. The talk was titled "Topographies of Earth-Space Relations" and shared initial findings into the making of Ariane and European space futures, the scalar narratives...
This November, Nina and Philipp participated at the 2024 Earth-Space Symposium on ‘Sustainability, Governance, Futures’, presenting their work on Futuring Practices and conflicting Temporalities in European Space Policy. This year was hosted by the ERC Project PLANETSTEWARDS of the Copernicus...
As part of the WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning STS: Infrastructures Across Borders, Nina Klimburg-Witjes presented a talk entitled "Infrastructures of Earth-Space Relations: Following a Rocket" to PhD students from all across the Netherlands. This installment of the WTMC PhD Fall Workshop,...
This September, Nina and Joseph participated at the annual Ethnographies of Outer Space [EOS] conference, presenting their work on topographies of Earth-space relations. This year was hosted by the ARIES team at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. It was a wonderful event and we truly enjoyed the...
Yesterday marked a significant milestone as we held our first Strategic Foresight Workshop in the FutureSpace project. Our topic for this first iteration was the Future(s) of European Launchers and European Strategic Autonomy. The workshop brought together a wonderful group of experts, and we were...
Philipp Kürten just published a piece in the recent edition of the Imaginary Papers, a quarterly newsletter curated by the Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) at Arizona State University (ASU). Imaginary papers explores speculative futures, science fiction, worldbuilding, futures...
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,...
On Monday 17 June 2024, FutureSpace researcher Joseph Popper participated in an open conversation with Reinhard Tlustos from the Austrian Space Forum at Galerie RAUMINHALT in Vienna, where they each shared and explored different methods and approaches to creating space simulations and staging...
Click here for article | Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna, talks about the reole of the Ariane 6 for Europe in the Podcast Edition Zukunft of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
Click here for article | Our researchers who are members of the UN affiliated Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) that represents university students and young professionals have collaborated to write a short summary of the FutureSpace Project and its ambitions for the SGAC newsletter
Nina Klimburg-Witjes was invited to the Expert Hearing for the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST), Working Group on the Ethics of Astro-biological Research and Human Expansion in Outer Space to provide insights on the future governance and sustainability...
From May 6-8, 2024 FutureSpace went to Oslo for a 2-day workshop with our colleagues from the ERC funded project CoFUTURES to present and discuss our interests, methodologies and potential synergies to explore multiple futures in the making! Co-futures studies the recent proliferation of fiction...
How to get started with a PhD project? How to find your topic and stay true to your interests and values through the highs and lows of independent research? How do you find your own voice as a scholar? And, perhaps most importantly, how to make sure you enjoy the PhD journey despite the challenges...
As part of the programme booklet for the new production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists" at the Landestheater Niederösterreich, Julia Engelmayer conducted an interview with Nina Klimburg-Witjes on the question "What visions of the future is our research based on?". Enjoy the read!
On April 12th, Nina Klimburg-Witjes, along with her colleagues Xiao Shan Yap (EPFL) and Claudia Röösli (University of Zurich), will address the challenges confronting the global space community due to the growing congestion of near-Earth space. This discussion is part of the “The Future of Near-Earth Space” conference hosted by the Istituto Svizzero.
Click here for article | As part of the “Junge-Akademie-Blog” of the Der Standard Newspaper Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Philipp Kürten and Kai Strycker give an overview of the current situation of the European Space Industry, especially in the light of the ongoing new Space Race.
Click here for article | Rudolphina journalists Hanna Möller and Petra Schiefer sat down with Nina Klimburg-Witjes and discussed the new global space race and its implications for the European space industry.
Click here for article | In a conversation with journalist Florian Baranyi writing for ORF-TOPOS Nina Klimburg-Witjes sheds light on the concerning issue of space debris and the challenges we face in addressing this dilemma in a comprehensive manner.
Introducing FutureSpace Talks! An exciting new online talk series hosted by FutureSpace that features researchers whose work critically engages with Earth-Space relations and explores possible futures on and-off planet. More information regarding event registrations coming...
In the soon to be released volume "Strategischer Wettbewerb im Weltraum: Politik, Recht, Sicherheit und Wirtschaft im All" Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Kilian Weißer discuss the tensions and ideals of European integration in a chapter analyzing the controversies surrounding the Ariane program.
Click here for article | As part of the “Materialien”-series of the University of Vienna-Magazine Rudolphina, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Kai Strycker answered Hanna Möller’s questions about space debris.
Nina Klimburg-Witjes gave a presentation on „The European Launcher crisis: (Rebuilding) Infrastructures in the name of crisis?“ at the Workshop ‘Permacrises Infrastructures’ at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Amsterdam...
This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures, and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity. Expert contributors address distinct areas, from border politics and biosecurity to health governance and...