May Ee Wong, PhD
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Our Cosmogrammatics piece “Semakau Landfill beyond 2035” and interview featured in CNA news article
Juria Toramae and I were recently interviewed and quoted by ChannelNewsAsia reporter Davina Tham on our speculative piece “Semakau Landfill Beyond 2035” which is featured in Cosmogrammatics.xyz. Davina’s article “Where will Singapore’s rubbish go after Semakau Landfill is full?” references our piece in examining the futures of Semakau Landfill and various dimensions of Singapore’s trash…
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“Seeing Through the Scales of Planetary Urban Futures” published in Against Catastrophe
Against Catastrophe’s latest dispatch, the second installation of “Reclaiming Futures”, Planetary Urbanisms has just been launched! I am proud to have contributed an essay to the online exhibition reflecting on the multiple scales of planetary urban futures, the totalizing power of design visions and life’s capacity to exceed them. My essay “Seeing Through the Scales…
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Talking energy islands at the 2025 DGTF with the launch of short film “EnergiØ”
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…
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Launch event for “Wind as Model, Media and Experience” on ‘Media & Environment’ journal, June 11th 2025, 5pm CET
There is a launch event for the special issue of Media & Environment that I had recently contributed to – the “Wind as Model, Media and Experience” special issue on June 11th 2025. More details in the image below.
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Presenting with Michaela Büsse “The Energy Island as Incomposite Techno-Utopia” on ACLA 2025
I will be presenting on the panel stream “Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide” organized by Maria Boletsi and Ilios Willemars from Leiden University. Our panel will be held on the 31st of May 2025, 12.30 – 2.15 PM CDT.
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New article: “From Wind Turbines to Energy Islands: Wind as Model Power in Denmark”
My article on wind energy as an elemental media environment is out in the ‘Wind as Model, Media and Experience” special issue of Media+Environment. You can access it and download it here.
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At Utrecht University
I am starting a new position as Assistant Professor in Urban Mobile Media at Utrecht University in the Media and Culture Studies department. I am looking forward to teaching and working with colleagues on topics on urban interfaces and performance as well as on environmental media and humanities. You can reach me there at m.e.wong@uu.nl.
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“Horoskop” on Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
For those who read German, here’s a fun piece of climate horoscopes that I had the pleasure of working on with Lukas Diestel, Maximilian Hepach, Giacomo Marinsalta, Sybille Neumeyer, Jonas Parnow and Birgit Schneider. It’s published in the German media journal, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, and based on the interactive app, Climate Fortunes, that we created…
May Ee Wong, PhD. Researcher and writer 