{"id":1159,"date":"2021-11-01T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:21:12","slug":"nuclear-futures-battles-the-elements-an-event-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sciencestudies\/2021\/11\/01\/nuclear-futures-battles-the-elements-an-event-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Futures battles the elements: An event report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first part of the Nuclear Futures<\/a> event, one of three events in the CSS Emergent STS series, was held on Thursday 28 October 2021.<\/p>\n

Due to the widely reported severe weather conditions<\/a> in Cumbria on the event day, the trip to Seascale unfortunately had to be cancelled. The event, however, went ahead in part, with some of our collective work relocating to Lancaster University campus. A huge thanks for the participants who joined us, for their flexibility and to those who could not for their understanding. The participants who joined us in Lancaster spent the day, warm and dry in seminar rooms, where we explored our relationships to nuclear things using virtual psycho-geography, a show and tell session, and writing about nuclear futures. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i>Our first exercise, led by Dr Philippa Holloway, involved tapping into the sensory, emotional and behavioural aspects of a familiar nuclear-related place, and drew upon participants\u2019 tastes, smells, movements, and affective connections to their chosen place. We wrote in journals and annotated maps. From this, we each wrote a short piece that included some\/all of the aspects that we jotted down about our place to create a deeper understanding of our connections with nuclear spaces and materialities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many other topics cropped up during our discussions, including:<\/span><\/p>\n