https://spaceimaginaries.net Space Futures Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:09:27 +0000 https://spaceimaginaries.net en https://spaceimaginaries.net/Homepage Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:06:18 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Homepage <img width="2750" height="1736" width_o="2750" height_o="1736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80f3db07b1acb83662e63514d900fd3fcfee02af7ce909abd4722e50e9398efd/Medium8204.jpg" data-mid="157496157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80f3db07b1acb83662e63514d900fd3fcfee02af7ce909abd4722e50e9398efd/Medium8204.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2c3131fc7c9b274f8be7898a0f1d348b4a70fa3249609e31d00771a11688b81/IMG_86068202.JPG" data-mid="157496318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2c3131fc7c9b274f8be7898a0f1d348b4a70fa3249609e31d00771a11688b81/IMG_86068202.JPG" /> https://spaceimaginaries.net/About Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:48 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/About Professor Juan Francisco Salazar Professor, Communications, School of Humanities and Communication Arts Juan Francisco Salazar was born in Santiago, Chile, and migrated to Sydney in 1998. For the past fifteen years he has lived along the Cooks River, in unceded Gadigal, Wangal and D'harawal Country. He is a researcher, author and videographer who engages with communities and places where the environmental and cultural challenges of living sustainably are starkly exposed. His academic and creative work explores the coupled dynamics of social-ecological change and is underpinned by a collaborative ethos across the arts, artists, science and activism. He holds a PhD in Communication and Media from Western Sydney University (2005) and a Bachelor of Anthropology from the University of Chile (1995). In 2020 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to continue a decade long cultural research on Antarctica and new work on social studies of outer space. Juan has led participatory research projects in Western Sydney and Central Australia; in Northern Chile and in the Wallmapu; in the Colombian Caribbean coast; as well as in Vanuatu, Cambodia, and Antarctica. He has developed collaborations with organizations in Sydney such as The Australian Museum, The Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences, The Biennale of Sydney, Information + Cultural Exchange as well as internationally, including Proboscis Studio (UK) and the Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH). His films and video installations include: Anatomia Monumental (1999), De la Tierra a la Pantalla (2004); 33˚South (with Sarah Waterson, 2008); Nightfall on Gaia (2015) and The Bamboo Bridge (with Katherine Gibson, 2019). These have been exhibited in prestigious venues and festivals including: Serpentine Gallery (London 2022); Biennale of Sydney (2022); London International Documentary Film Festival (2021); Vision du Reel (Nyon 2020); CPHDOX (Copenhagen 2015); Antenna Film Festival (Sydney 2015 and 2019); Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 2008); Museo de las Americas (Denver 2005); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago 1999). Juan is a member of the editorial board of the journals, The Polar Journal, Media+Environment and Cultural Anthropology. His work has appeared on The Sydney Review of Books, The Conversation, The New Matilda, The Miami Rail. <img width="484" height="604" width_o="484" height_o="604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dd86365f4ebbbf01427f30a7b85ad3960da929fec76fe361492f9e6807c00f9/JuanBioPic.jpg" data-mid="146076204" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/484/i/3dd86365f4ebbbf01427f30a7b85ad3960da929fec76fe361492f9e6807c00f9/JuanBioPic.jpg" /> https://spaceimaginaries.net/Projects Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:51 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Projects Projects Night Fall on Gaia (2015) Nightfall on Gaia is a speculative ethnographic film that depicts the lives and visions of human communities living in the Antarctic Peninsula. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Antarctica, the film is an experimental meditation on the future of the Antarctic as a new extreme frontier for human habitation, the complexities of a fragile planet at the verge of ecological collapse, and the vicissitudes of an uncertain geopolitical future. for the region. Watch the full film https://spaceimaginaries.net/Publications Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:52 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Publications Publications Framing the Futures of Australia in Space: Insights from Key Stakeholders This report, co-authored with Dr. Paola Castaño (University of Essex), presents key insights derived primarily from a set of 39 semi-structured interviews undertaken between October 2020 and May 2021 with 41 key actors in the Australian space sector. These actors represent a diverse range of perspectives from government, industry, science, law, and culture that constitute the space sector. Download the report 'Framing the Futures of Australia in Space: Insights from Key Stakeholders' <img width="476" height="700" width_o="476" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c932b3c841033ebbd2d498e75ed3abb619d67f1300dd66cb4993e965d36937c8/view.jpg" data-mid="157977292" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/476/i/c932b3c841033ebbd2d498e75ed3abb619d67f1300dd66cb4993e965d36937c8/view.jpg" /> https://spaceimaginaries.net/Talks Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:54 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Talks Talks Sense-making About Space Roundtable chaired by Juan Francisco Salazar on Sense-making about Space, as part of a 9-part webinar series convened by the Academy of the Social Sciences during August 2021. This first session focuses on how we understand and make sense of space through historical, cultural, philosophical and social lenses. Borders of astrobiology: (un)disciplined futures This event stages an interdisciplinary conversation looking at astrobiology as a field that opens ethical questions about cosmic entanglements and environmental futures. It asks: what happens to astrobiology, or if one starts from astrobiology, when justice and ethics enlighten possible modes of relating to environments on and off Earth? A keynote speech will be followed by short panel interventions and a Q&amp;A.Keynote speaker: Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University)Panellists: Shonil Bhagwat, Karen Olsson-Francis, Nisha Ramkissoon (The Open University)Chair: Alessandra Marino (AstrobiologyOU, The Open University) Klein College Lecture: Dr. Juan Francisco Salazar Informed by video ethnographic work in the Antarctic Peninsula and the production of a series of environmental communication and media projects, including digital storytelling, the feature-length documentary film Nightfall on Gaia (2015), and an online game, this talk explores the role of communication and media practices in developing accounts of world-making processes through which extreme environments are made habitable. https://spaceimaginaries.net/Interviews-Media Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:01:55 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Interviews-Media Interviews &amp; Media Antártica y la vida en otros planetas/Antarctica and life on other planets https://spaceimaginaries.net/Events Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:09:27 +0000 Space Futures https://spaceimaginaries.net/Events Events Futures and Dark Skies 9 May 2021, Dark Skies Festival, Earth Sanctuary, Alice Springs. <img width="1640" height="924" width_o="1640" height_o="924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/346491a29fe73b0c5e1e7913f9e71bc841a0bfebdb639d9a7777c756a6267ba0/Dark-Skies-Festival-Facebook-.png" data-mid="157979060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/346491a29fe73b0c5e1e7913f9e71bc841a0bfebdb639d9a7777c756a6267ba0/Dark-Skies-Festival-Facebook-.png" /> Space Imaginaries Symposium 18 August 2022, Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences, Sydney. This hybrid one-day event curated by Juan Francisco Salazar and Dr. Deborah Lawler-Dormer (MAAS) brought together diverse voices working at the intersection of planetary sciences, humanities, law, social and environmental justice, and space exploration to discuss ways for thinking alternative narratives of space futures and undoing the legacies of colonialism in space affairs. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51b29222b70ecabbd089a9f3421edbc39f59371e48a3ba53c8e34c1f57a735fe/FYsHu-WXkAoiLHO.jpg" data-mid="157980077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51b29222b70ecabbd089a9f3421edbc39f59371e48a3ba53c8e34c1f57a735fe/FYsHu-WXkAoiLHO.jpg" />