STS Hub 2025 'Diffracting the Critical'

Lapiņa , L. (Organizer)
Corinna Dean (Organizer)
John Shorter (Organizer)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference

Description

Chairing the panel Environmental STS, together with John Shorter (University of West Indies, Mona), Corinna Dean (University of Westminster)

Period	13 Mar 2025
Event type	Conference
Conference number	2
Location	Berlin, GermanyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

STS
Urban space
Arts-based research
Multispecies design
Collaborative methods
Environmental futures

Documents & Links

Focusing on ethnographic case studies of urbanisation and sustainability, this panel will explore critical diffraction as the lenticular basis of analysis for more-than-human environmental entanglements. Divided into two sections, the first, Critically Diffractive Urban Ecologies, will examine pollution in designated nature areas, collective memory and marginalisation in ecologically neglected suburban enclaves, filmographic landscape literacy, and the systemic devaluation of marred sceneries as they relate to the toll of anthropogenic mutilation and transformation within metropolitan settings. The second section, Multispecies Ecologically Diffractive Relationships, will build on the discussion of these more-than-human habitabilities by investigating inter-species co-habitability through antibiotic use, insights from the mathematical modelling of zoonotic diseases, and how the impacts of these relationships promote the idea of sustainability in agriculture amid an increasingly digitalised world.