Thursday 8 June 2023, 1pm - 2pm
Sex ed for astronauts: reflections and direction setting
Eleanor Armstrong (Stockholm University/HPS)
Chair: TBC
The meeting will be held on Zoom: please contact Christina Rozeik to receive the Zoom details.
Speaker and abstract
Sex ed for astronauts: reflections and direction setting
Eleanor Armstrong (Stockholm University/HPS)
Our speculative futures project ’Sex Ed for Astronauts' takes four fictional futures and imagines what materials might be needed to support lives that centre pleasure, consent, intimacy and care - through sex education and beyond. This talk will walk through some of the working practices that have led to this Conceptions-sponsored project; and how working across disciplines has brought together novel ideas and perspectives for this design research project.
Eleanor Armstrong is a postdoctoral research currently based at Stockholm University. She researches the social studies of outer space, with an emphasis on how we come to know about space through informal education. Armstrong works with Akvilė Terminatė on EXO-MOAN, a speculative design studio centred on prioritising care, intimacy and pleasure in outer space futures. You can learn more about EXO-MOAN and Sex Ed for Astronauts on our instagram: @inspacenoonecanhearyoumoan
The Early Researchers Seminar Series (ERSS) is a platform for PhD Students and early career researchers (ECRs) at the University of Cambridge with research foci on reproduction to share and discuss their research with other academics from a range of disciplines also researching reproduction at the University. Seminars are held on Zoom on the second Thursday of every month, 1pm - 2pm. For more information, and for the full 2022-2023 programme, please see the main ERSS page.