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From September 16-18, Helene Sorgner, Hannah Schmalstich and Pepijn Deroo attended the annual Ethnographies of Outer Space Symposium, organized by the Social Studies of Outer Space (SSOS) Network and hosted this year by Dr. Anna Lisa Ramella at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. As always, it was...
The FutureSpace team was in Kraków in the first week of September for EASST 2026! This year’s theme “More than now: exploring resilient futures” was particularly interesting to us, as the future and future-making practices lie at the core of the project’s interests. Alongside meeting many STS...
On April 22, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Nicolò Miotto, affiliated PhD Candidate at FutureSpace, presented at the second Panel Session organised by the Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network (SPIN). Their talk, entitled "Behind Closed Doors: Navigating Secrecy in the Study of Wargames"...
PSL Week image (ENS Space Chair) On March 2, Nina Klimburg-Witjes presented at the first "PSL Week" organised by the Space Chair of the École Normale Supérieur in Paris. Nina's presentation of the ongoing research in the FutureSpace project engaged with the question of how to map Earth-Space...
At the end of August, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Philipp Kürten were in Bologna, at the 18th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, organised by the European International Studies Association (EISA) from August 25 to August 29. At the conference, Nina co-organised the first-ever...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...