During the course of the project, researchers and artists will keep you updated by sharing their ongoing (artistic) research logs.
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Planetary Public Stack Research Residencies
On 8th March 2023, Space Lab at Waag organised a transdisciplinary workshop with experts from different disciplines and artists to map out the following three questions: how do technologies impact the way imagine environmental and planetary interests, concerns, and injustices? What are their recommendations for those involved in the production of these environmental imaginaries? What are the first needed concrete actions so that planetary imaginaries can become more inclusive also for the creative and civil sectors?
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Essay: Radical re-imagining: why we need planetary imagination (Bonnie van Vugt, 2023)
What do we mean when we talk about images of the planet, why are they so important and how does this relate to the climate and ecological crisis? Bonnie van Vugt explains in this essay on planetary imaginaries.
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[video] More-Than-Planet @ ISEA 2023: Aquatic Devolutions. A bio-food dinner in contrapunctual speculations
A dinner performance created by Maya Minder and TETI Group (Gabriel Gee & Anne-Laure Franchette) Sound composition by Matthieu Philippe de l'Isle.
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[Videos] More-Than-Planet symposium: the Ocean-Space-Ocean edition at ISEA 2023 - Symbiosis
Conferences and talks at More-Than-Planet symposium - the Ocean-Space-Ocean edition at ISEA 2023
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Unfolding the Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly (Klara Debeljak, September 2023)
From the 21st to the 25th of August, Projekt Atol in Ljubljana organised ARIA, a summer school designed as a role-playing game and a program of workshops and lectures, aiming to build and inhabit an alternative world in the context of a changing planetary ecology.
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Podcasts Global Periphery / Ocean-Space-Ocean
Two series of podcasts were recorded and produced, one during the Global Periphery symposium organised by Leonardo/Olats in September 2022 and one during the Ocean-Space-Ocean symposium organised by Makery/Art2M in May 2023, both in Paris.
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The Aerocene community gathers at Hangar Y and reclaims the air (Ewen Chardronnet, July 2023)
On Friday 14 July, the Hangar Y in Meudon near Paris opened its doors and its skies to the public in order to host Aerocene for a unique collaborative and artistic experience.
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More-Than-Planet symposium at ISEA 2023: On the same planet (Rob La Frenais, June 2023)
Report of the "Ocean-Space-Ocean" edition of the "More-Than-Planet" symposium series, that took place at Délégation Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris) in the frame of ISEA 2023, on 16-17 May 2023.
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Card games (Annick Bureaud, May 2023)
Two cards decks were produced by Leonardo/Olats, each with the same objectives: as the basis for the recording of a chorus series of podcasts; b) as a tool for animation of events and a basis for discussion and participation of audiences. The first deck is related to the Global Periphery event (questions Annick Bureaud, graphic design Perrine Serres, 2022). The second deck is related to the overall project More-than-Planet (questions Annick Bureaud, graphic design Daniaux-Pigot, 2023).
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Aerocene: Bring The Sun Down (Rob La Frenais, April 2023)
The complex drama of a fossil-fuel free flight was acted out on Wednesday April 5 by the Aerocene community in the wide flatlands of central France, near Maintenon, Eure, with an attempt at a world record for a solar balloon flight, or floating sculpture as founder Tomás Saraceno puts it.
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Spheres podcast (ep.1): What kind of dreams could we have for the future? (Photo North - Northern Photo Center, March 2023)
The first episode of the Spheres podcast hosted by Photo North – Northern Photo Center, talks about planetary images of climate change and considers possible futures. What kind of artistic and scientific approaches do we have to the past and the present? What dreams could we have about possible futures in times of climate change?
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Synthetic Becoming: Life in the Molecular Commons (Vit Bohal, March 2023)
What does life re-assembled by hormonally active substances look and feel like? Who are we becoming with them? What are their effects on our bodies, how do they impact sexual development, and how can we live well with them despite their potential for harm?
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Leonardo/Olats at the ITACCUS meeting during the IAC Spring Meeting
Each year in Spring, the members of the International Programme Committee of the International Astronautical Congress gather in Paris in the so-called "Spring Meeting". It is time for all the Technical Committees of the International Astronautical Federation to meet. Annick Bureaud from Leonardo/Olats took part in the ITACCUS (International Technical Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space) meeting and presented the Portraits planétaires LASER event that some of the members of the Committee attended.
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More-than-Planet: Finding New Planetary Imaginaries and Actions (Zoénie Deng, February 2023)
The exhibition More-than-Planet (July-December 2022) presented five international artists working on critical narratives to reduce the global environmental crisis.
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Paleo-aero: an alternative low-carbon history of aerospace and aeronautics (Atelier 21, February 2023)
The participatory and citizen research project in the field of aeronautics and aerospace led by Atelier 21 builds a circular economy of knowledge about low-carbon flights by identifying and inventorying techniques and technologies that can be updated and adapted for today’s society.
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Floating into space and other ways of getting there (Rob La Frenais, January 2023)
How to get into near-space, orbit, or outer space without burning up or polluting the atmosphere during the climate emergency on Earth? Rob La Frenais reviews the alternative ways.
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More-than-Planet Expo Booklet (Miha Turšič, July 2022)
This booklet is part of the More-than-Planet Expo at Old Observatory. It includes a curatorial introduction, and a description of the artists and their works.
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Green Open Food Evolution, a speculative exploration of algae and the food transition (Pauline Briand, October 2022)
Green Open Food Evolution, the culinary installation conceived by Maya Minder and her collaborators is at the intersection of art, traditional and digital craft, cooking and research.
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We Are All On The Periphery (Rob La Frenais, October 2022)
On September 23-24, Global Periphery symposium was exploring the contemporary imaginaries of space through examples of artistic creations from the space sector with voices from multiple continents and locations.
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International Astronautical Congress
The International Astronautical Congress, the largest event in the world related to space activities, took place in Paris from September 18th-22nd.
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Space art and culture in Brazil: Three years of activities at the National Institute for Space Research (Fabiane M. Borges, September 2022)
Since 2019, Fabiane M. Borges curates a research platform on Art and Space Culture at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). On the occasion of the 73d International Astronautical Congress in Paris, she comes back on the last three years of the program.
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More-than-Planet: Remote sensing and habitability (Annick Bureaud, August 2022)
Inaugurating an ambitious three-year program, the More-than-Planet exhibition is on view at the Old Observatory of Leiden (Netherlands).
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Space Without Rockets (ed. E. Chardronnet, R. La Frenais, UV Editions, August 2022)
The book "Space Without Rockets" adresses the ways in which we could travel away to space, sustainably.
