(Post)fossil culture

In an era marked by the consequences of global warming on the evolution of industrialised societies and on critical variables of the ecological crisis such as the massive loss of biodiversity, it is essential to implement an energy transition that replaces dependence on fossil fuels with a matrix based on renewables. The starting hypothesis of…

CCHS-CSIC OBSERVATORY FOR ECO-SOCIAL TRANSITION

The ecological transition is a challenge that will be the backbone of collective efforts and will shape the strategic decisions of all societies on the planet over the next three decades. This has been recognised by all governance bodies at all levels, from the international (Agenda 2030, Paris Agreement) to the European level (European Green…

TRACTS // Trace as a research agenda for climate change, technology studies, and social justice

TRACTS stands for ‘Trace as a research agenda for climate change, technology studies, and social justice’. TRACTS is a COST Action (2021–2025) that brings together scholars from disciplines of the social sciences and humanities with artists, decolonial activists, memorialization experts and legal professionals to bridge current cultural, political and geographical gaps in research on traces….

Energy Humanities

The project “Energy humanities. Energy and sociocultural imaginaries between the industrial revolutions and the ecosocial crisis” ((PID2020-113272RA-I00, ENERGEHUM) will generate a space for study and research that focuses on the discussion of the role played by the imaginaries of energy during industrial modernity in light of the climate emergency and its challenges. And it will…

Fossil Aesthetics

The globe Alberto de Palacio conceived to commemorate the fourth centenary of Columbus’ feat Taking as a starting point the book Estética fósil. Imaginarios de la energía y crisis ecosocial (Barcelona, Arcadia, 2020), the project “Fossil Aesthetics: A Political Ecology of Art History, Visual Culture and Cultural Imaginaries of Modernity” (PIE 202010E005) seeks to define how…

Proyectos Estetica Fosil
The public of contemporary art and visual culture in Spain

El proyecto de I+D+i “Los públicos del arte y la cultura visual contemporáneas en España. Nuevas formas de experiencia artística colectiva desde los años sesenta” (PID2019-105800GB-I00; 01/06/2020 – 30/05/2023) es una investigación financiada por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación a través de la convocatoria “Retos del Conocimiento” y coordinada por las IPs Noemí de Haro García y…