SSOS

Resources

  1. The European project More-than-Planet (2022 – 2025) finds an urgency to re-examine the way people understand and picture the environment on the level of the planet as a conceptual whole, together with partners Waag (NL), Ars Electronica (AT), Northern Photographic Centre (FI), ART2M/Makery (FR), Leonardo/Olats (FR) and Zavod Projekt Atol (SI). In a collaboration with artists, critical thinkers, and various experts from cultural, environmental, and outer space institutions, the project will address this crisis of planetary imaginary.
  2. Crewed Exploration and Settlement (CES) Database – Around the world, a growing number of governments, private companies, and international organizations are actively working to establish a sustained human presence in outer space. Despite the growing importance of Crewed Exploration and Settlement (CES) in both policy and academic debates, empirical data necessary for studying this sector remain fragmented and inconsistent. To address this gap, Nathalie Lai, Thao Pham, Enrike van Wingerden, and Darshan Vigneswaran at the University of Amsterdam have developed the CES Database. When using the data please cite: Lai, N., Pham T., van Wingerden, E. & Vigneswaran, D (2024) ‘Mapping Crewed Exploration and Settlement of Outer Space: Introducing a New Database’, preprint available at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nxw26.Download the data here (Excel spreadsheet – .xlsx file)
  3. Kosmika Institute Space Culture Bibliography is a curated a collection of books, essays, and articles that explore the intersection of space, culture, the humanities, and the arts. We hope this resource proves valuable to artists, researchers, and scholars as we collectively work toward building a cultural theory of space.