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: Talk: Dr. Stefan Höhne on "Cultures of the Cryosphere - Histories and Futures of Artificial Cooling" at Humanities Centre "Futures of Sustainability", Hamburg
: Lecture: Dr. Stefan Höhne on "Surviving Comfort – Imagined Futures of the Cryosphere" at the Symposium "Climate Sensitivities: Aesthetics and Politics of Heat" Leuphana, Lüneburg
Dr. Zhengfeng Wang and Dr. Miriam Fahimi publish articles on the artificial cryosphere
Interview with Prof. Alexander Friedrich at WDR Politikum Podcast on Cryopolitics (in German)
Dr. Stefan Höhne gave an interview on how cooling has become a new luxury.
Dr. Mina Fahima writes about if data centers can sweat.
Dr. Thomas Friedrich writes about how heat protection quickly slips down the list of priorities (available in German)
Prof. Alexander Friedrich gave an interview with Energie Zukunft about beeef economy and artificial cooling (available in German)
Dr. Stefan Höhne gives an interview at Süddeutsche Zeitung on proper cooling.
Dr. Mina Fahimi writes: Are Data Centers Factories? Industrial Promises and Socio-Ecological Losses
Do we need to cool everything as excessively as we do? Why and how did our collective love affair with cold turn into a toxic romance that threatens our very…
Dr. Thomas Friedrich gives an interview on how to keep a cool head.
Talk: Dr. Alina Wandelt on "Getting a Sense of the Cryosphere - Notes from the Artificial Cold in New Orleans" (Essen, Germany & online)
: Talk: Dr. Alina Wandelt on "Getting a Sense of the Cryosphere - Notes from the Artificial Cold in New Orleans" (Essen, Germany & online)
Talk: CryoFellow Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce on "Between Aesthetic and Anesthetic - The Affective Consequences of Air Conditioning for Young Laotian Scammers"…
: Talk: CryoFellow Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce on "Between Aesthetic and Anesthetic - The Affective Consequences of Air Conditioning for Young Laotian Scammers" (Essen, Germany & online)
CryoCultures team members Anastasia Margariti-Börgel and Dr. Manuel Harms join the Sustainability Sciences Conference 2026 in Lausanne for a workshop…
: Workshop “Sustainability Theatre: Role-Playing Blockchain” at Sustainability Sciences Conference 2026 in Lausanne
Lecture by Alexander Friedrich and Stefan Höhne in the Advanced Seminar on Modern History/History of Technology, hosted by Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler, Technical…
Dr. Mina Fahimi wrote: Castles in the Air and Data Centers – A Lack of Resistance to Big Tech in Vienna (in German)
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin) will give the fourth CryoLecture on January 8th in Paderborn, Germany. The event…
: Patrick Brodie - The Geopolitical Ecology of AI (hybrid event)
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Martin Schmitt will give the third CryoLecture on January 8th in Paderborn, Germany. The event is open to the public and…
: Martin Schmitt - The Early History of Data Centers: historical development and environmental impacts (hybrid event)
Im Rahmen des SICP Symposium 2025 - Digitale Resilienz - ist Prof. Suzana Alpsancar Teil des Panels zu "Organisation, Governance und Prozesse"
: Panel Discussion: Suzana Alpsancar at SICP Symposium 2025 Digitale Resilienz (Paderborn, Germany) - in German
On September 17th, 2025, Suzana Alpsancar will give a talk on Sustainability vs scalability at Sustainable AI Conference 2025 (Bonn, Germany).
: Talk: Suzana Alpsancar on Sustainability vs scalability at the Sustainable AI Conference 2025 (Bonn, Germany)
Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) joins the CryoCultures research project to study the artificial cryosphere.
We are pleased to announce that Nicola Twilley, author of the award-winning book Frostbite will give the second CryoLecture on July 8th in Darmstadt, Germany.…
: Nicola Twilley - Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Dr. Stefan Höhne will give a public lecture at the Colloquium Modern History / Contemporary History at Free University Berlin, Germany.
: Dr. Stefan Höhne on Urban Cryospheres – Histories of well-tempered Futures
Alexander Friedrich published a journal article on "Kälte. Von einem Grenzphänomen des Lebens zu einer kulturellen Grundbedingung" in: Zeitschrift für…
Hybrid public lecture during the CultCryo Kick-off Workshop in Essen, Germany - video available!
: Prof. Bronwyn Parry on Cultures of the Cryosphere: Charting emergent geographies and historiographies of our relations with cold
On December 5th, 2024, Dr. Stefan Höhne gave a lecture on “Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Planetary Cooling” as part of…
: Lecture: Dr. Stefan Höhne on Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Planetary Cooling
Prof. Alexander Friedrich delivered a response to the lecture by Susanna Lindberg (University of Leiden) in “Being in the World of Global Warming”
: Lecture: Prof. Alexander Friedrich on “Being in the World of Global Warming”
German version of "Regimes of Freshness" (Friedrich/Höhne) re-published open access in "Critical Temperature Studies"
Stefan Höhne German lecture "Cultures of Cold – Cryopolitics, Climate Control, and Well-Tempered Bodies", broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Nova, is now available…
