Multidisciplinary global project completed
Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt and Kati Lindström at the Department of Philosophy and History recently completed “DECAY without mourning – future thinking heritage”, a 15 MSEK project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. “The project highlights a type of research that many people may not realize is being carried out at KTH. It also brings together researchers and authors from around the world, representing a wide range of disciplines,” she says.
Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt was the principal investigator for the project. This is how she describes it:
“The project DECAY without mourning – future thinking heritage hosted a three-day conference at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies and included key international thinkers and artists on these themes. In his review of the conference, the cultural critic Wamuwi Mbao wrote that “The breadth of this event testified to the conceptual bigness of decay: the conference was not only the staging of a communal thinking-in-kind, but also an apt way of modeling a publics of care.” You can read his full review here ”
Many of the conference contributions can be read in Herri #13 , the award-winning South African online magazine’s theme issue dedicated to Decay. The KTH researchers’ contributions are Kati Lindström’s triptych, Antarctica: A continent for the future , and Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt’s essay on Imperialism, South Africa’s Antarctic Heritage and Decay, 1910-1961 .
Also, test the DECAY Machine , and watch a photo gradually decay in front of you digitally!
