FreedomLab – Martine Dirkzwager Wu, Junior Researcher

Martine Dirkzwager Wu

With a background in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Martine is researching the rise of Asia and what new world order it might bring. Concerned by societal, economic and environmental issues worldwide, she is interested in learning how Asian nations search for proactive solutions through technology. In trying to understand a fundamentally uncertain world, her thought process aims to be critical and creative. She celebrates an era of post-truth in which her task is to trace knowledge all along its distribution network, including but not limited to nature, academia and culture.

Martine Dirkzwager Wu

With a background in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Martine is researching the rise of Asia and what new world order it might bring. Concerned by societal, economic and environmental issues worldwide, she is interested in learning how Asian nations search for proactive solutions through technology. In trying to understand a fundamentally uncertain world, her thought process aims to be critical and creative. She celebrates an era of post-truth in which her task is to trace knowledge all along its distribution network, including but not limited to nature, academia and culture.

The latest by

Martine

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Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

The Deep Transitions Framework; an elaboration

A theoretical and empirical elaboration on the Deep Transitions Framework, designed to contribute to a just, equitable and healthy planet.

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Online magazine

The Strelka Institute's magazine collects a series of essays and articles on New Urban Conditions, which problematizes existence in the increasingly tech-savvy infrastructures. The texts reflect greatly on architecture and design, how these relate to users and the landscapes they populate while recognizing the imminent threat of anthropogenic climate change.

At the intersection between technology and music stands Arca in collaboration with AI and AR to create musical worlds that play around speculative elements of our cyborgian future. The way Arca creates sounds and sounds themselves question certain ontological assumptions, allowing for conversations too sensitive for the physical world to be carried out virtually.

Cannibal Metaphysics

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro proposes an alternative way of anthropological practice that understands collectives through their corresponding style of thought, in relation to their own relations. Cannibal Metaphysics analyses Amerindian schemes of thought through the relevant Amerindian cosmology, marking an ontological turn towards perspectivism and multinaturalism.