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Architectures & Infrastructures
How people, places and sites are inhabited in expanding extra-terrestrial contexts both on and off Earth is the topic of this session. Thinking of various kinds of infrastructures as complex and dynamic nexus of expanding and contracting relations, this session explores the different aspects of the infrastructural expansion of human habitation on Earth and off Earth. It seeks to examine how LEO and Cislunar space is conceived and configured in relation to Terra.
It will attend to how consciousness, emotion, finance, waste, materiality, vision, atmosphere and other aspects of human inhabitation are challenged and refigured as we shift our collective and diverse attentions and modes of inhabitation of Earth, off Earth. The session will consider how both the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial are subtly reconfigured in relation to one another as we move off Earth and it will consider what futures might be in store for us in terms of this expansion and these new configurations.
Programme
Introduction
AffordanceFuturism ︎
3D-printed wrenches and the Space Infrastructure ︎Preparing for the ‘Internet Apocalypse’ ︎
Terrestrial Economies of Space in Russia and Kazakhstan
Makar Tereshin
AffordanceFuturism ︎
3D-printed wrenches and the Space Infrastructure ︎Preparing for the ‘Internet Apocalypse’ ︎
Terrestrial Economies of Space in Russia and Kazakhstan
Makar Tereshin
Photon Infrastructures ︎
To be announced
Jo Aiken
Blockchain in Low Earth Orbit ︎
Across Space and Time ︎To be announced
Lynn Harper
Discussions and Receptions
End of workshop
To be announced
Jo Aiken
Across Space and Time ︎To be announced
Lynn Harper
Led by Perig Pitrou
End of workshop
UCL Anthropology
14 Tavition St., Bloomsbury
WC1H0BW London
9 June 2023
09.30 - 18.45
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