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Reflection on human’s existence on Earth implies a reflection on our place in the Universe. Symmetrically, space exploration projects depend on a diversity of ways to build worlds on Earth, according to cultures and time periods. This workshop explores this diversity by focusing on intellectual, visual, and political powers of cosmologies. This term is understood here as a general category encompassing the plurality of the totalisation processes elaborated by humans using different paths: modern western sciences, indigenous knowledge, mythological and religious narratives, or artistic practices. How understandings and representations of outer space depend on and are linked to culturally and historically grounded, very earthian experiences? As cosmologies encompass intellectual and technoscientific processes, how are they made visible and powerful within material cultures? 



Programme



Introduction

Dialectical Cosmograms
John Tresch

The Scales of Planetal Experimentation in Low Earth Orbit
Paula Castaño

Cosmo-logics
Nicholas Campion

Making the Cosmos at Home
Catriona Howie

Celestial Buddha
Jenia Gorbachenko
Fabio Gygi

Astronomers’ Incongruent Worlds
Lauren Reid

Space Modules and Sailing Ships
Giles Bunch

Mexican Mars
Anne Johnson

The Stars are our Relations
Hilding Nelson

System as Cosmology
Valerie Olson

Discussions and Receptions
Led by Victor Buchli and
Istvan Praet

End of workshop


Maison Français d’Oxford
2-10 Norham Rd
Oxford OX2 6SE

15 September 2023
09.00 - 18.45
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