Strelka hosts online public presentations of The Terraforming 2020 program to showcase the results of five months of research, investigation and creative exploration.
The two events will premiere projects by 9 multidisciplinary teams and 4 research fellows. The work presented will cover a range of topics of space and sci-fi, artificial food and landscapes, geo- and macro-engineering, and range from speculative design proposals, to cinema, to legal frameworks, to practical propositions for intervention.
The presentations will be accompanied by keynotes from the faculty of The Terraforming – Benjamin Bratton, Lisa Messeri, Jussi Parikka, Helen Hester and Kim Stanley Robinson.
JULY 1 // 12 PM (EST), 7 PM (GMT+3)
- Kosmos Law, a holistic legal framework and governance model to replace outdated space law and update terrestrial governance.
- To Bury the Sky, a plan to capture and store 1,000 Gigatons of CO2 in Siberia.
- Backcasting Kardashev One, a scale to classify extraterrestrial civilisations revealing how to rethink energy and planetarity on earth.
- Pharmakon Landscape, a geodesign initiative to tackle long-term environmental threats by reinterpreting the Russian inner periphery.
- Green Military New Deal, a research-based proposal at the intersection of legislative models of ecosystem governance and the platforms able to enforce them.
REMOTE FELLOW PRESENTATIONS:
- Fluxopia, by Luke Jones (United Kingdom)
- Cosmoplanetarity, by Rachel Hill (United Kingdom)
JULY 2 // 12 PM (EST), 7 PM (GMT+3)
- Black Almanac, 31 steps to produce a viable food system by 2050.
- Veha, a speculative proposal for a planetary ecological connectivity framework with a focus on the Russian territory.
- Daleko, a fictional illustrated world re-imaging the concept of waste through Russian sites of obsolescence.
- Cassandra, alternative literacies for scenario planning through narratives written before climate projections and after climate modelling.
REMOTE FELLOW PRESENTATIONS:
- Automation & Resilience: the COVID-19 Crisis in China, by Jie Chen (China)
- The Macro-Engineering Reader, by James Boyd (USA)
FIND JULY 1-2 PROGRAM AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS HERE
