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FutureSpace investigates how practices of European integration shape Europe’s future in outer space and vice versa. FutureSpace is a 5-year ERC-funded research project at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Thank you for the wonderful experience and for organising such a fantastic symposium Xiao-Shan Yap, Ori Morales Hernández, Blake Harvey, #EuropeanResearchCouncil (ERC) 🚀 🚀 🚀
#ERC #EarthSpaceGovernance #SpacePolicy #EuropeanSpacePolicy #UtrechtUniversity #STS #SSOS
(cont'd) We gave a presentation on Futuring Practices and Conflicting Temporalities in European Space Policy-Making and gave a short, yet insightful Foresight Workshop on the futures of Earth-Space-Governance. (more>>)
#EuropeanSpacePolicy #Europe #SpacePolicy #UtrechtUniversity #STS #SSOS
Last week, FutureSpace team members Nina Klimburg-Witjes & Philipp Kürten were in Utrecht at the 2024 Earth-Space Symposium, organised by the wonderful Planet Stewards Project! (more>>)
#EuropeanResearchCouncil #ERC #UtrechtUniversity #Sustainability #STS #SSOS #EarthSpaceGovernance
Exciting news and more info to come soon! 🚀
We are happy to share that the next Ethnographies of Outer Space (EOS) conference will be hosted by ourselves at the University of Vienna!
#EthnographiesOfOuterSpace #EOS #STS #SSOS #UniversityOfVienna #OuterSpace
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: futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-...
What a first year it’s been! Thank you to the #EuropeanResearchCouncil and the #UniversityOfVienna for all the support. Looking forward to the remaining 4 years of the FutureSpace research project 🎉
#STS #SSOS #SpacePolicy #Europe #ERC #ESA #OuterSpace
(cont'd) 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!
We are also happy to share that the next EOS conference will be hosted by ourselves at the #UniversityOfVienna. Stay tuned!
#STS #SSOS #EOS
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 #JagiellonianUniversity in Krakow. (more>>)
#EthnographiesOfOuterSpace #EOS #STS #SSOS
(cont'd) 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.
#ESA #ESPI #STS #SSOS
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. (more>>)
#Europe #ESA #StrategicAutonomy #STS #SSOS
(cont'd) Philipp reflects on how this European absence in For All Mankind mirrors real concerns about Europe's space autonomy, aligning with observations from the FutureSpace project’s research on European stakeholders’ fears of lagging behind.
#Europe #OuterSpace #EuropeanSpacePolicy #STS #SSOS
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 its alternate-history space race. (more>>)
22.11.2024 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(cont'd) 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.”
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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. (more>>)
#AustrianSpaceForum
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 here: (German)
#NewSpaceRace #Europe #STS
(cont'd) 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.
Read the full summary below:
#UnitedNations #UN #SGAC #Europe #STS #SSOS
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. (more>>)
#SGAC
(cont'd) At the #COMEST hearing, Nina provided insights on the future governance and sustainability challenges related to Space Exploration.
#Sustainability #STS #SSOS #UNESCO #OuterSpace #SpaceExploration
In May, 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. (more>>)
#OuterSpace #COMEST #Astrobiology
CoFUTURES studies the recent proliferation of fiction based on ethnic, cultural, or national identity as take-off points for imagining possible futures despite their globally-spread locations of production. We learned a lot and look forward to more exciting things to come!
Check out CoFUTURES:
In May, FutureSpace went to Oslo for a 2-day workshop with colleagues from the ERC funded project CoFUTURES to present and discuss our interests, methodologies and potential synergies to explore multiple futures in the making!
#FutureSpace #CoFUTURES #ERC
In May, team leader Nina Klimburg-Witjes introduced the FutureSpace project in a keynote talk at a Doctoral Colloquium of the #TechnicalUniversityOfMunich, presenting interests, themes, and experiences from the team’s ongoing research at that time, as well as personal reflections on academic life.
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As part of the programme booklet for the new production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “The Physicists” at the Landestheater Niederösterreich, Julia Engelmayer conducted an interview with Nina Klimburg-Witjes on the question “What visions of the future is our research based on?”
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(cont'd) The panel explored the impact of satellite service disruptions on research and daily life, the interconnection of terrestrial and extraterrestrial sustainability, and how space pollution and geopolitics influence one another.
#STS #SSOS #SpacePollution #Geopolitics #Sustainability
In April, Nina Klimburg-Witjes, along with Xiao Shan Yap (EPFL) and Claudia Röösli (University of Zurich), addressed the challenges of near-Earth space congestion at “The Future of Near-Earth Space” conference hosted by the Istituto Svizzero. (more>>)
#NearEarthSpace #STS #SSOS
(cont'd) Europe, traditionally focused on scientific missions, now faces shifting priorities, as space exploration and strategic goals play a key role in its global positioning amid intensifying competition for space dominance.
Read the blog post below:
#STS #SSOS #Europe #ArianeRocket
In the Junge-Akademie-Blog of Der Standard, team members Nina, Philipp, and Kai provided an overview of the European space industry's current state. With a new global space race underway, driven by commercial and state actors, geostrategic considerations are central. (more>>)
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In a Rudolphina interview, Nina discussed the new global space race and its implications for the European space industry, addressing European visions for space, ongoing debates on Ariane, challenges of commercial space ventures, tensions between integration and competition, and FutureSpace.
#STS
In a conversation with journalist Florian Baranyi writing for ORF-TOPOS, FutureSpace PI Nina Klimburg-Witjes shed light on the concerning issue of #SpaceDebris and the challenges we face in addressing this dilemma in a comprehensive manner.
You can find the worth-while read below: (German)
#ORF
As part of the “Materialien”-series of the University of Vienna magazine Rudolphina, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Kai Strycker discussed space debris; the challenges it raises for future space missions as well as discussing the threats it poses for the satellite infrastructure that we rely upon daily.
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