May Ee Wong, PhD
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LIMN 15: The Great Offshore
I am excited to announce the launch of LIMN 15 “The Great Offshore,” which I co-edited with Michaela Büsse and LIMN editors Gokce Gunel and Jamie L. Jones. In this issue, we explore the offshore as the prevailing spatial logic of our times across diverse sites such as call centers, gamer enclaves, detention facilities, special…
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Hong Kong talks
I’ll be in Hong Kong in November with Dr Jamie Wang through the Education University of Hong Kong’s Dean’s Collaboration Award to think about cities and futures together. I will be giving talks at the Hong Kong University Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning Seminar (10th November 2026, 1- 2.30pm) and at the Research…
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CFP for Open Panel (4S 2026): Reconfiguring Islands of Technopower (30th April 2026)
Corollary to our “Catalyst” CFP, Kim de Wolff and I have set up an open panel for 4S 2026 in Toronto: Panel 144 Reconfiguring Islands of Technopower Please consider submitting an abstract if you are interested by 30th April 2026: https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php
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CFP for Catalyst journal special issue – “Reconfiguring Islands: Environmental Futures Beyond Containment” (May 15 2026)
Kim de Wolff and I are launching a call for papers for a special issue in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience journal, titled “Reconfiguring Islands: Environmental Futures Beyond Containment.” We are looking for submissions that bring Feminist STS (Science Technology Studies) into engagement with critical ocean and island studies, feminist, critical and/or decolonial geography, Arctic studies,…
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Essay out for “Earth Sensations” symposium in ‘Theory&Event’ journal
Jussi Parikka, Paolo Patelli and I were grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the “Earth Sensations” symposium edited by Iwona Janicka and Tobias Skiveren in Theory&Event journal. The symposium centers on the notion of ‘sensorial tactics’ as ways of conceptually and relationally engaging with our socioecological environments in this disaster and crisis-filled milieu. In…
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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.
