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Mayee Wong

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Contemporary urban/design culture,critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics,STS/history of tech-environment,AICA.Asst Prof @Utrecht University. More informally at https://mstdn.social/@mayeewong

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Cosmogrammatics – A growing repository of experimental fieldwork practices

Our piece "Semakau Landfill Beyond 2035" is published on Cosmogrammatics.xyz: a repository of experimental fieldwork practices run by Michaela Büsse and designed by Moritz Grenner-Petter.

cosmogrammatics.xyz/articles/sem...

24.09.2025 07:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cosmogrammatics – A growing repository of experimental fieldwork practices

Juria Toramae and I were recently interviewed by Channelnews Asia journalist Davina Tham on our speculative piece "Semakau Landfill Beyond 2035." Her news article examines the futures of Semakau Landfill and various dimensions of Singapore's trash issue.

www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/se...

24.09.2025 07:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This dispatch is co-commissioned by Nadia Christidi and Özgün Eylül İsçen and illustrated by Tal Halpern.

29.06.2025 08:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Against Catastrophe The aim of this project is to interrogate the concept of catastrophe – how it is defined, analyzed, and deployed – and anti-catastrophic practices in an attempt to envision alternatives to our present...

Just launched: Against Catastrophe's the second installation of "Reclaiming Futures":"Planetary Urbanisms." Proud to have my essay along with those from Gökçe Günel,Orit Halpern and Olamide Udoma-Ejorh as well as films from Michaela Büsse and Dele Adeyamo.

againstcatastrophe.net

29.06.2025 08:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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31.05.2025 22:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The online launch for the "Wind as Model, Media and Experience" issue stream for Media & Environment journal (of which I was a contributor), June 11th 2025, 5PM CET.

Full stream here: mediaenviron.org/section/4661...

20.05.2025 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Program Guide | American Comparative Literature Association

I'll be presenting with Michaela Büsse on this year's ACLA meeting on the energy island as incomposite techno-utopia on the panel "Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide" (31st May 2025, 12.30 - 2.15PM CST)

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18.05.2025 07:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The panel is organized by Jenny Chio and Brent Luvaas and will feature presentations by Sarah Moser, Jasmine Ali and Michaela Büsse. It's at 7 - 8.30pm, 13th March 2025, at Room A115 (Level 1, Conference Center)

04.03.2025 08:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am presenting at the Association for Asian Studies meeting on the imaginary of "Asian futurity" as projected by Singapore's model planetary eco-urban aesthetics in the panel "Eco-city Visions: Environmental Aesthetics and Sustainability Politics from Southeast Asia to the Arab Gulf"

04.03.2025 08:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The recurrent New Year resolution to get off X

01.01.2025 11:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach | Published in Media+Environment By Maximilian Hepach, Ryan Bishop & 3 more. Drawing together work from environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice, we propose and contribute to a new elemental field of study: the ...

This is part of the "Wind as Model, Media and Environment" special issue (mediaenviron.org/article/1274...)

01.01.2025 11:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I look at how the fluctuating wind becomes constructed as a stable renewable energy resource through a global renewable energy infrastructural model promoted by the Danish wind industry.

01.01.2025 11:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From Wind Turbines to Energy Islands: Wind as Model Power in Denmark | Published in Media+Environment By May Ee Wong. This article explains how fluctuating wind is shaped into stable “energy” as a media environment, just as wind as medium and milieu shapes infrastructural forms of wind power.

My new article out in "Media+Environment" journal: "From Wind Turbines to Energy Islands: Wind as Model Power in Denmark" (mediaenviron.org/article/1257...)

01.01.2025 11:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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December Research-in-Progress Seminar: Speculation, Disruption, and Desire in Heritage and Urban Futures The Open Cities Platform organizes a seminar for two presenters to workshop chapters on speculative cities and planetary urban futures, as well as on heritage development projects and governance.

I will be presenting on the chapter I am working on for my book project in UU's Open Cities research-in-progress platform, along with Charlotte Vekemans. This coming Thursday, 3 - 6pm: www.uu.nl/en/events/de...

28.11.2024 08:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor in Environmental Media Studies

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

16.11.2024 13:34 👍 71 🔁 51 💬 0 📌 1
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“Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research” – Daniela Agostinho (Aarhus University) [caption id=

Daniela Agostinho will be presenting at UU for Transmission in Motion on 16th Oct on "Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research" transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/daniela-agos...

12.10.2024 13:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference – Green transition through dynamics of problematizations

I will be presenting a paper on the making of hydrogen as energy resource through the prospective energy island with Michaela Büsse at the "Social Studies of energy and the making and unmaking of energy resources" conference end-October. gt-dynprob.aau.dk?page_id=52

07.10.2024 05:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reading Circle: Multispecies Cities – an Unearthed x Open Cities collaboration In collaboration with the reading group unearthed, the Open Cities Platform is organizing a friendly, casual meeting to explore the topic of multispecies cities.

Happening at Utrecht University, a multispecies cities reading meeting organized by @lauraodbeke.bsky.social this month

www.uu.nl/en/events/re...

31.08.2024 07:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First four books in digital studies series at Amsterdam University Press: platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work and critical data practices critical engagements with digital data, methods and infrastructures

First four books on @amsterdamupress.bsky.social digital studies series (of which I’m a founding editor) have been published - all #openaccess. On platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work, critical data practices & more.🎊📚💜 jonathangray.org/2024/07/25/a...

25.07.2024 15:16 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

I am joining Utrecht University come this September as Asst Prof in Urban Mobile Media for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities. Looking forward to working with great colleagues like @lauraodbeke.bsky.social!

09.07.2024 03:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Critical Data Practices: Remaking Data Archives, Subjects and Technologies Symposium

Happening in Aarhus University on the 4th of June is the inaugural symposium of the Center for Critical Data Practices cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arra...

14.05.2024 11:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happening this week (25th April) at the Aarhus Architecture School aarch.dk/events/subte...

21.04.2024 08:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An article out on Electronic Book Review based on our Helsinki Biennale 2023 Environmental Audiotour and the film “Saaret” by @paolopatelli.bsky.social (Jussi Parikka also keynoted on this for ELO2023)

electronicbookreview.com/essay/ecocri...

08.04.2024 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ms Magazine just published my OpEd on Evelyn Fox Keller's feminist STS legacy showing diversity makes science better. Also mentioned: UC Davis Feminist Research Institute's "Asking Different Questions" msmagazine.com/2024/03/25/e...
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25.03.2024 19:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It is cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Humanities (ceh.au.dk) and the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program (cc.au.dk/en/research/...) at Aarhus

26.03.2024 09:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This event is hosted by our "Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data" project (cc.au.dk/en/dafed)

26.03.2024 09:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excited that Michaela Büsse will be over at Aarhus University
to give this talk "Building (With) Nature" on her research and film on the Zandmotor on the 4th of April, 2pm, at Nobelparken: ceh.au.dk/news-and-eve...

26.03.2024 09:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

At Aarhus University in June, a PhD workshop for Environmental Media and Environmental Humanities. International applicants welcome (application deadline by 15th March 2024) au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...

29.02.2024 07:59 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Really happy to hear that my ex-colleague/supervisee got into a professional grad sch program in the US (without a Masters) -- one out of 30 programs applied.

17.02.2024 09:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0