Deep-Sea Minescape, Screening of Blue Peril, 2022, INTERPRT, Deep Sea Mining Campaign and Ozeanien-Dialog 

From the 1950s to the 1970s, driven by Cold War geopolitical rivalry, the acceleration of technological advancements propelled spatial explorations for potential resource extraction across various vertical and horizontal dimensions. Vertically, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was launched. The aftermath of spaceflight activities saw the perpetual fall of rocket debris into Earth’s alien seas and oceans, which became the drop-off and disposal zones. Concomitantly, the abyssal zone (doubling as a debris cemetery), rich in marine life forms and mineral resources, prompted explorations driven by private and state interests. In the Deep-Sea Minescape Tuesday Gathering, we query: How can we recenter remote environments to reconfigure them less as property and more as common heritage of mankind? How are such sites enrolled in modes of management, governance and control? 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Research Area (Red Room), NTU CCA Singapore

Climate Transformation Gatherings (Nov 2024 - May 2026) 

About the Climate Transformation Gatherings 

Extended from the Climate Transformation Sustainable Societies Lecture Series, the Climate Transformation Gatherings consolidates critical concepts and ideas around various environmental themes and theories. These gatherings take various formats including open-discussion seminars, reading groups, workshops and guided tours to engage interested members of the public on various environmental issues. 

About the Team 

The Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Series is organised by members of the Climate Transformation Programme (CTP) Cross-Cutting Theme 1: Sustainable Societies research team, Principal Investigator Professor Ute Meta Baue, research fellow Joshua Gebert, research associate Ng Mei Jia and research assistant Angela Ricasio Hoten.

This series is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 3 grant[MOE-MOET32022-0006] for the Climate Transformation Programme. 

21 January 2025

English

In the Deep-Sea Minescape Tuesday Gathering, we query: How can we recenter remote environments to reconfigure them less as property and more as common heritage of mankind? How are such sites enrolled in modes of management, governance and control?

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