We warmly welcome you to join our next online FutureSpace Talk on Wednesday December 11th, with guest speakers Eleanor S. Armstrong (University of Leicester) and Réka P. Gál (Technical University of Munich).
Register here: https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/
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What a first year it’s been! Thank you to the ERC and University of Vienna for all the support. Looking forward to the remaining 4 years of the FutureSpace research project 🎉
You can now sign up to join the next online FutureSpace talk on Thursday 10 October given by David Valentine from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Click the link to register: https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/
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We are also happy to share that the next Ethnographies of Outer Space (EOS) conference will be hosted by ourselves at the University of Vienna. Stay tuned for more information and calls for papers!
This September, we participated at the annual Ethnographies of Outer Space (EOS) conference, presenting our 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 chance to spend two days exchanging with peers in the social and cultural studies of outer space.
In September we held our first Strategic Foresight Workshop, focusing on the Future(s) of European Launchers and Strategic Autonomy. ESPI Director Hermann Ludwig Moeller delivered a keynote, setting the stage for insightful discussions. Through a Causal Layered Analysis, 13 participants explored in-depth the challenges and opportunities in Europe’s space future. We’re so grateful to all who contributed, laying the foundation for further research and dialogue on Europe’s strategic space autonomy.
In September, in an article published in Imaginary Papers, a newsletter by the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, FutureSpace member Philipp Kürten analyzed the TV series For All Mankind, focusing on Europe's absence in the alternate-history space race it depicts. He reflects on how this mirrors real concerns about Europe's space autonomy, aligning with observations from the FutureSpace project’s research on European stakeholders’ fears of lagging behind.
In June, FutureSpace researcher Joseph Popper joined Reinhard Tlustos (Austrian Space Forum) in an open conversation at Galerie RAUMINHALT in Vienna. They shared and explored different methods and approaches to creating space simulations and staging Mars on Earth. Moderated by Dr. Barbara Imhof, space architect and co-founder of LIQUIFER, the talk was part of the LIQUIFER exhibition series “Living Beyond Earth: Architecture for Extreme Environments.”
In a June episode of the Edition Zukunft podcast, Nina Klimburg-Witjes explained why a new global race for space has begun, whether Europe could lose out to other countries and companies and what space missions have to do with colonial history.
Listen to the conversation (in German) between Nina and Jakob Pallinger here: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000224345/verliert-die-eu-bei-der-raumfahrt-den-anschluss
Verliert die EU bei der Raumfahrt den Anschluss?
Jetzt anhören: Die Wissenschafterin Nina Klimburg-Witjes spricht über die Rolle Europas im Weltraum und über den neuen globalen Wettlauf ums All
In June, our researchers, as members of the UN affiliated Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) that represents university students and young professionals, collaborated to write a summary for the SGAC newsletter about the FutureSpace Project and its ambitions. Our visiting scholar Matúš Babják wrote a poignant analysis of the current situation of the European space industry, and our researchers Phillip Kürten and Kai Strycker also contributed to the text.
