Category: publications
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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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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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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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“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…
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“Ecocritique between Landscape and Data: The Environmental Audiotour” on Electronic Book Review
An article out on Electronic Book Review based on our Helsinki Biennale 2023 Environmental Audiotour and the film “Saaret” by Paolo Patelli (Jussi Parikka also keynoted on this for ELO2023)
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“Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures” on ARIScope
Following from the ARI Roundtable on Speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures held on the 31st of May 2022, I discuss Southeast Asian speculative fiction and art as critical and ethnographic counterpoints to the plethora of technological and financial urban futures promoted in Southeast Asia here in this piece, Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculative…
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“Revisiting Jane Jacobs’ Urban Complexity in Global Sustainable City Discourse” published in Architecture_MPS
Recently, my article “Revisiting Jane Jacobs’ Urban Complexity in Global Sustainable City Discourse,” was published in Architecture_MPS, the home journal of Architecture_Media_Politics_Society (UCL Press). The article examines the figural role that American urbanist Jane Jacobs and her idea of urban complexity play in global sustainable city discourse — the discourse that articulates the notion of…
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“Smart City, Smart Residents” and “Oakland Ecopolis”
Here are two written articles/entries that I co-wrote with different groups of people. One is a thinkpiece on Seoul’s Smart City developments that I produced from my research internship with The Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore in 2016. The other is an entry on an Oakland-centred ecotopian “plan for a plan” from 1997 that…
May Ee Wong, PhD. Researcher and writer 