Ecological Imaginaries

Online research article which expands on ideas from a talk given at The New Institute in Hamburg in 2022, as part of a cross-disciplinary workshop / conference entitled ‘Eco-Scenarios: Performing Scale Critique’.

The article discusses alternative forms of design practice in the context of the climate crisis and draws on excerpts from my ongoing design and research project ‘NO_POLE’, which examines the role of (and possibilities for) remote sensing technologies in shaping cultural relationships to planetary ecologies.

What would it mean for artists and designers to work with environmental data and machine senses? Beyond their role as scientific instruments – what are the possibilities for remote sensors as design tools, as image making and world building tools?