Michaela Büsse will be screening her short film “EnergiØ” at the 2025 Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design. I will be having a conversation after the film screening with her and Orit Halpern, moderated by Özgün Eylül İşcen.

June 12th 2025, 8pm

Hole of Fame
Königsbrücker Str. 39
01099 Dresden

Michaela Büsse’s short film energiø explores the emerging spatial figure of the energy island and its implications for marine governance. In the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European powers have begun drafting plans to install renewable energy hubs in the North and Baltic Seas—an effort to accelerate the energy transition while pursuing greater energy autonomy. Anchored in real-world design proposals, the film embraces the speculative dimension of this infrastructural vision, drawing on the aesthetics of critical architectural practice to interrogate and imagine alternative futures.