Ruins in space, sustainability and outer space imaginaries

In relation to the climate crisis, outer space has emerged as an object of speculation and imagination in which digital technologies such as satellite networks and space travel offer both means of managing planetary crises and ways of escaping from it. The research project explores these materialized imaginaries, for example space debris and ruins in space as processes that bridge past and future and can render visible how societal and political earthly “remains” are projected and materialized beyond planetary boundaries.