The ENERGY STORAGE Research Studio assembles a transdisciplinary alliance of artists, social and natural scientists to (re)think our practices amidst planetary crises. We zoom in on storage and conversion of energy as a black box of the energy transition and explicate its molecular, technical, political, environmental and aesthetic aspects. Opening up storage enables us to contest obfuscated interests, values and relations and examine what worlds are being served by high-tech storage solutions like batteries and hydrogen. Through collective thinking we seek to engage with storage concepts and technologies from diverse perspectives, to ultimately reimagine storage beyond the profit-driven demands of endless economic growth.
The laboratory journal is a document which aim is to record a research process.
Historically, it materializes as a notebook, in which the scientist writes down information relative to an experiment, from the research question and experimental protocol to observations, results and analysis. Increasingly, lab journals also serve as a legal tool to determine ownership when the results are published in a scientific paper or a patent, thereby privatizing scientific knowledge.
In the light of the planetary crisis, we want to reclaim the lab journal from an individualistic tool for owning knowledge into an open platform for transdisciplinary and transformative research. From April 2025 to March 2026, you will find various research questions here, to which you are welcome to respond and contribute. As such, this open lab journal will serve as a testing ground for radically rethinking academic practices by embracing a multiplicity of perspectives and knowledges.
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