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The Astro Ecologies Institute, founded in 2020, combines ecological research and astrophysics, developing connections across ecologies, technologies, science and society in the emerging space age.
Research
The Institute convenes transdisciplinary research, supporting scientific and also cultural and creative approaches, to reveal ecological strategies for science and knowledge, with a focus on the theme of communication and cosmos. We explore science, policy, philosophy, adaptation, and readiness that responds to climate breakdown. Focusing on alternatives to extractive space futures, research shares emerging methods and practices that hold different kinds of relations for earth and outer space.
We do this work by looking to the roots—to the origins of life and the deep time of media and cultures that shape our current technological era—whilst looking to the future, with an openness to speculative and process-based methods that approach wicked problems in fresh ways.
Network
The network, held in Aotearoa (New Zealand), originally launched as a community initiative to make ecological and outer space research more accessible. The Astro Ecologies Institute expanded into a network of scientists, researchers, and creatives connecting across the planet, with a communal curiosity to grow an ecological knowledge culture to meet the complexity of what is emerging.