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About the Project
Atmospheric Entanglements (AE) is a framework for the development of Planetary Curricula in research-based design and artistic practice. AE operates in sub-thematic cycles, working in trans-regional, pan-institutional, and collaborative partnerships to rethink design, architectural and artistic pedagogies through comparative site-based research, hands-on production, public mediation, and research sharing. Responding to the unprecedented condition of recognising a ‘planetary’ historical turn that yokes the social with the climactic, we ask – both theoretically and experimentally – how practice-based research pedagogies ought to respond, alongside students who will shape curricula to come from their respective fields.
Guided by seminars, lectures and mentors from a variety of fields ranging from artistic practice to public health, to legal designation, to environmental media, participants in various iterations of the platform engage in the creation of open-source exercises from their generational perspective to be shared, following an ethos of research generosity. Locales, histories, sites, materials, languages, and knowledges are woven into dialogue shared by young practitioners facing the most acute effects of an entangled planetary condition, that is experienced differentially, yet can only be navigated commonly, looking at resonances and frictions that guide a reengineering of the purposefulness of creative practice from a planetary perspective.
Atmospheric Entanglements has been initiated in 2024 by Patricia Reed (Co-Head of Critical Inquiry Lab (MA), at the Design Academy Eindhoven). Collaborations, partnerships, dialogues and re-uses of the platform are welcome!
Bibliographic Inspiration
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Maan Barua
Metabolic geographies:
Work, shifts and politics2025
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Katherine N. Hayles
Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts
Lecture
2024
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Achille Mbembe
The Universal Right to Breathe:
Colonialism & the Ethics Of MemoryLecture
2020
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Eva Horn
The Case of Air
2022
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Lecture & Panel Discussion
2021
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Sasha Engelmann Sophie Dyer Lizzie Malcolm Daniel Powers
Open-weather:
Speculative-feminist propositions for planetary images in an era of climate crisis2022