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...
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2024 Earth-Space Symposium on ‘Sustainability, Governance, Futures’
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...
FutureSpace at EASST-4S 2024
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,...
Art-Science Open Conversation Series
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...
Expert Hearing for the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST)
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...
FutureSpace x CoFUTURES
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...
Dis/continuities of academic life or: How to enjoy the PhD journey – Keynote Talk at Doctoral Colloquium of the Technical University of Munich
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...
Conference-Panel: Contextualizing the Future of Near-Earth Space
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.
Presentation by Nina Klimburg-Witjes: The European Launcher crisis: (Rebuilding) Infrastructures in the name of crisis
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...