About the group

Object Lab features participants from literary studies, history, art history, history of science, philosophy and cultural anthropology, and practitioners from the museum and art field in Norway, Sweden, China and Japan.

Increased attentiveness to objects and materialities may strengthen our imaginaries of contingent and open futures, especially in a time of environmental change and one dominating technological, transhuman evolution. 

Through transdisciplinary, experimental and collaborative methods, we will develop new knowledge on how objects in collections, literature, art and philosophy can re-engage and re-articulate alternative, lost, and sustainable imaginaries of futures (futuring).

Object Lab welcomes new participants and particularly encourages early-career researchers and students who are interested in objects and materialities to get in touch.

Affiliated projects

Object Lab is affiliated with Objects, a transdisciplinary network and reading group based at IAKH led by Ulrike Spring and Janicke S. Kaasa.