Stop by the Graz Geographisches Kolloquium, March 20,2025 18:00 – 20:00, Hörsaal HS 11.03, Heinrichstraße 36, Erdgeschoß.
I’ll be talking about my research on NASA’s “Space Poop Challenge.”
TITLE: NASA’s “Space Poop Challenge and the materiality of bodies in relation
ABSTRACT In this talk, the speaker examines the feat of maintaining life in orbit, drawing a sharp focus to the relationship between the human body and its environment. These intimate, engineered spaces evoke a microcosm of urgent planetary concerns surrounding air and water resources, and waste capture, storage, and elimination. Analyzing NASA’s “Space Poop Challenge” through critical feminist theory and discard studies, this talk explores deeply entangled relationships between fleshy bodies and planetary bodies, to prompt new discussions of outer space access and gravity politics.
KEYWORDS: bodies, discard studies, habitat, materiality, waste.
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