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Terra Fiction

The idea of terraformation was once the domain of writers and artists. We’re entering a new space race to colonise and terraform the universe. Silicon Valley companies like SpaceX, Google and Planetary Resources are in the front seat. As we edge closer towards inevitable environmental collapse these big tech companies are scrambling to colonise new habitable worlds on distant planets. By shooting a cherry-red Tesla car into space, they shape the future narrative of man in space. But what are we leaving behind on Earth? If today’s technological leaps aren’t improving our natural environments than what legacy will we inherit in worlds abroad?

At Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction FIBER and De Brakke Grond invite speakers working in the fields of art, literature, science, design and digital culture to reassess man’s future relationship with the earth and the cosmos. Today, visionary artists and researchers are turning back to our earth to imagine futures that position humans and our technologies inside a more balanced ecology. Our programme presents alternative perspectives of what this future could look like. Speculative designers, art-scientists and writers will share their research and evolving ideas to challenge the big-tech model.

Terra Fiction is the second installment of FIBER’s ongoing Coded Matter(s): Worldbuilding project. These lecture events question the design of contemporary world visions and technological narratives, which are contributing to greater socio-economic inequality and environmental destruction

This edition is supported by the Creative Industry Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, The New Institute, De Waag, Border Sessions.

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Jay Springett

Jay Springett [GB]

Speaker / Panelist

Jay Springett is a writer, theorist, promoter of DIY culture and editor of Solarpunks. Solarpunk is a subgenre of science fiction premised on the …

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Michelle Kasprzak [CA]

Moderator

Michelle Kasprzak is the resident moderator of FIBER’s Coded Matter(s) event series. With her witty and insightful style of moderating, she has the remarkable skill to make complex issues accessible to a broad audience.

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E.J. Swift [GB]

Keynote

Can fiction save us from ourselves? E. J. Swift will discuss the role of speculative fiction in imagining alternative worlds, …

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Sources, Code & Knowledge

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GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture by Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney and FoAM

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Technology in isolation cannot provide truly encompassing visions of what a society could become, …

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Thalience – the succesor to Science – Karl Schroeder

16/07/18

Those of you who’ve read my novel Ventus may recognize “The Successor to Science” as the …

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Spider the Artist short story by Nnedi Okorafor

16/07/18

Short Climate fiction story by Nnedi Okorafor

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Tesla Roadster + Starman in Space, Orbiting Earth

16/07/18

Spending some time waiting for the boost that will move him to his final …

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Project Hieroglyph

16/07/18

What is the purpose of science fiction stories?

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Extreme habitability, what can we learn from space?

16/07/18

This article by Miha Turšič is part of an ongoing research on human outer space …

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Solarpunk a reference guide

16/07/18

Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to …

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Utopia as a Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society by Ruth Levitas

16/07/18

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates …

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Everything Change: an anthology of climate fiction

16/07/18

Everything Change features twelve stories from our 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest along …

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Fiction Meets Science

16/07/18

Interdisciplinairy research programme at Bremen University run by Susan Gaines. In recent decades, fiction …

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Dragonfly.eco

16/07/18

our new global eco-literature portal.

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Trump Tweet

16/07/18

Climate Change >> Fake News Tweet by Donald Trump

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The Cli-fi Report

16/07/18

As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late …

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Eco Fiction

16/07/18

Welcome to Eco-fiction.com, a news site that covers environmental authors’ works via book posts, …

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Creative Industries Fund NL

The Creative Industries Fund NL began operating on 1 January 2013. It operates within …

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Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in the arts which enriches the …

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Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond

The Flemish Arts Centre ‘De Brakke Grond’ offers the most significant developments, contemporary art …

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