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EU funding (€9,911,396): The Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling Hor1 Sept 2024 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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The Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling
Artificial cooling fundamentally shapes the world in which we live. Since the onset of the Cold War, cooling and freezing technologies have become increasingly vital for a wide array of everyday practices, from nutrition, health and reproduction to dwelling, telecommunication, scientific research and economic productivity. A global system of cold storages, cold chains and air-conditioned spaces has become an energy-intensive yet barely considered planetary infrastructure: an “artificial cryosphere”. Artificial cold has drastically restructured life both on a biological and social level, yet the far-reaching impact of this technology is still largely unexplored and unresearched. Recent studies estimate that global cooling demand will increase five-fold by 2050, dramatically exceeding our future energy budget and urgently calling for change. CultCryo argues that avoiding the impending global cooling crisis will be impossible if we do not understand how the planetary infrastructure of artificial cold is deeply interwoven in cultural practices. Thus, in order to analyze the constitution of “cryogenic cultures”, we will undertake four interdisciplinary multi-sited case studies in the domains of food supply, air conditioning, biomedicine and computing. We develop innovative approaches using mixed-methods rooted in the history of technology, geography, digital history of concepts, ethnography and the philosophy and ethics of technology. Breaking ground for an innovative interdisciplinary field of research, CultCryo will provide the first geographical mapping of the cryosphere, a historical reconstruction of its emergence, an ethnographic account on its cultural constitution, and a philosophical analysis and ethical assessment of its underlying norms and values. Thereby, we develop a corpus of urgently needed knowledge to critically analyze a pressing global phenomenon while also identifying alternatives towards a more sustainable future of artificial cold.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| INSTITUT FUR SOZIAL OKOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG GmbH | €201,250 |
| MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAT HALLE-WITTENBERG | €357,435 |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT | €2,718,962 |
| THE Australian National University | €2,216,181 |
| UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN | €2,049,475 |
| UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN | €2,042,110 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG | €325,983 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101118625
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