Betreff: [CDCinfo] Project Launch for AGAINST CATASTROPHE
Datum: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:23:12 +0200
Von: Nelly Yaa Pinkrah <cdci...@leuphana.de>
*Project Launch for AGAINST CATASTROPHE**: UKRAINE DISPATCH*
Hi everyone,
We are happy to launch the website for our multimodal research project,
‘Against Catastrophe’ <https://againstcatastrophe.net/>, with the
*Ukraine Dispatch*. Our project challenges the normalization of
catastrophic thinking and necropolitical designs in the contemporary
world. It does so through the histories of science and technology,
infrastructure studies, environmental criticism, research-based art and
speculative design. The project outputs
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/about>will include an edited volume,
offline and online art/design exhibitions, and a series of online
publications.
As we were conceptualizing the project, Russia invaded Ukraine. Faced
with the resulting humanitarian and geopolitical crisis, we felt a need
to respond to the unfolding tragedy. With ‘Dispatches’ – a short-form,
multimedia, online publishing format – we hope to move past the news
cycle-based temporality of contemporary catastrophism, but faster than
traditional academic publishing, to shed light on the longer-term
structural causes and implications of catastrophes.
In the first dispatch, on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine,
our intention is not to offer a single response to the immediate human
tragedy, but to explore the war in and beyond the multiple catastrophes
it has wrought. The six collected dispatches here – by Asia Bazdyrieva
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/of-brushwood-reeds-and-foil>,
Anna Engelhardt
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/adversarial-infrastructures>,
Krolikowski Art <https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/start-over>,
Katarzyna Nowak
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/mourning-a-forest-road>,
Oleksiy Radynski
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/nord-stream-studies>, and
Jonathon Turnbull et al.
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/dispatch-1/the-dogs-that-survived>– are
products of war, but focus on its causes and effects in infrastructure
and non-human nature. You can read the full editorial statement here:
https://againstcatastrophe.net/editorial
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/editorial>
‘Against Catastrophe’ is led by Dr. Orit Halpern, Lighthouse Professor
and Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische
Universität Dresden. The core project team
<https://againstcatastrophe.net/ac-team>is based out of Concordia
University (Montreal), MIT, and TU-Dresden.
‘Against Catastrophe’ is funded by Fonds de recherche du Québec and the
Swiss National Science Foundation, and is part of the larger Governing
Through Design research cluster.
[Apologies for crossposting]
Regards,
Nelly, on behalf of the 'Against Catastrophe‘ team
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