Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)
Lead Research Organisation:
Kingston University
Department Name: Sch of Law Social & Behavioural Sciences
Abstract
Nuclear cultural heritage is a fast-growing field in many European countries due to nuclear decommissioning and its impact on local communities, and the challenge of safeguarding nuclear waste and protecting future generations. However, it is unclear and contested what constitutes nuclear cultural heritage and how it can benefit different social groups. There is a risk that valuable tangible and intangible forms of nuclear cultural heritage will be lost and that social inequalities might be perpetuated in the process. NuSPACES will collaborate with different stakeholders to document and examine the creation of nuclear cultural heritage in three countries, the UK, Sweden and Lithuania and to shape a new agenda for research and practice in this field. It will explore, first, the ways in which different social groups at local communities, nuclear industries and national cultural organisations engage in creating museum expositions and heritage sites in the process of selective preservation of their nuclear past. Second, it will explore the role that nuclear cultural heritage can play in the process of decommissioning nuclear objects, for instance, providing new categories and types of materials to be preserved in the archives that are being assembled to inform future management of nuclear waste depositories. Third, it will contribute to the internationalisation of local and national nuclear cultural heritage-making activities by establishing a platform where stakeholders will be able to share their experience and shape future agenda for research and practice in the field in conversation with academic researchers. NuSPACES will result in new empirical data, academic publications, workshops and will produce a report containing policy guidelines on nuclear cultural heritage.
Organisations
- Kingston University (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Museums Scotland (Collaboration)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA (Collaboration)
- Science Museum Group (Collaboration)
- Umea University (Collaboration)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (Project Partner)
- National Museums Scotland (Project Partner)
Publications
Edberg K
(2024)
"It Will Feel Empty, but I Am Not Sure Why": Belonging and Future Change in Children's Engagement with Decommissioning Nuclear Energy Infrastructures
in Heritage & Society
Rindzeviciute E
(2022)
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation
in International Journal of Cultural Policy
Rindzeviciute E
(2021)
Archive / Simulator
Rindzeviciute E
(2021)
Futures
Rindzeviciute E
(2022)
Ingrown Infrastructures
Rindzeviciute E
(2024)
L'Âge atomique : Les artistes à l'épreuve de l'histoire
Rindzeviciute E
(2024)
Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 978-0-262-54757-4. $45.00 (paperback).
in The British Journal for the History of Science
Rindzeviciute E
(2023)
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media
Ross L
(2023)
Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Energy Past to Heritage Future
in Heritage & Society
Rindzeviciute E
(2022)
Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia
in Slavic Review
Rindzeviciute E
(2024)
Nuclear spaces: communities, materialities and locations of nuclear cultural heritage
Rindzeviciute E
(2021)
Nuclear Superpowers: Art, Culture and Heritage in the Nuclear Age
in Baltic Worlds
Ross L
(2023)
Review of Gross, S.G. and Needham, A., (eds.), 'New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America'
in H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews
Ross L.
(2024)
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008
in Contemporary British History
Rindzeviciute Egle
(2023)
The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science
Rindzeviciute E
(2023)
The Yearly Review of the Lithuanian National Art Museum
Ross L
(2023)
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia edited by Susanne Bauer and Tanja Penter, Abingdon, Routledge, 2022, 230 pp., £130.00 (hardback), open access eBook available, ISBN 978-1-032-16050-4
in International Journal of Cultural Policy
Rindzeviciute E
(2021)
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier
in International Journal of Cultural Policy
Rindzeviciute E
(2022)
Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History. By Yuri Kostenko. Trans. Lidia Wolanskyj, Svitlana Krasynska, and Olena Jennings. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, vol. 78. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2020. 350 pp. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Photographs. $96.00, hard bound.
in Slavic Review
| Title | The Burial |
| Description | Dr Rindzeviciute has advised the filmmaker Emilija Skarnulyte on the concept and factual evidence in the making of the documentary "The Burial" (2022). The official description of the film: "Burial invites viewer for an immersive sensorial trip into the unique and vast Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania, now undergoing a decommissioning process. Cold War energy structures impact recent geopolitical processes and leave planetary threats over long periods of time. The project takes a geological approach - it reads things that compose this flat landscape as a stack of stratigraphic layers. Burial is an intertwined section through the current entanglement of identities, spatial practices, infrastructures and geological resources." The film is streamed on MUBI and has been screened at numerous film festivals. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film has been positively reviewed on The Guardian as an important contribution that raises public awareness about the complex legacy of the nuclear technology: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/01/burial-review-deep-dive-into-underworld-of-nuclear-power-and-its-toxic-legacy |
| URL | https://emilijaskarnulyte.com/burial/ |
| Description | NuSPACES was a multi-site study of nuclear cultural heritage as an emerging field of practice, scholarship and policy-making, created in response to the funding call Cultural Heritage, Identities & Perspectives: Responding to Changing Societies (CHIP) by the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH), and drawing on the definition of nuclear cultural heritage formulated by a preceding pilot research project Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice conducted in 2018-2022 and funded by the AHRC grant AH/S001301/1. The analysis of British, Swedish and Lithuanian cases has helped to identify key challenges in this field. • The first challenge is political polarisation where different actors' views on the ambivalent role of nuclear technology in society clash and achieving consensus is difficult. • The second challenge is the risk of perpetuating societal inequalities through heritage processes, where entire social groups are at risk of exclusion from being represented in nuclear cultural heritage on the basis of social class, gender, ethnicity and race. • The third challenge is closely linked to the relative novelty of nuclear technology: significant forms of industrial architecture and the material culture of nuclear technology could be lost because of low awareness of their cultural heritage potential. • Finally, the fourth challenge is power imbalances of cultural sense-making, where the rich diversity of local and transnational narratives can be lost in favour of national master narratives, because historically nuclear power has been associated with centralised nation-state institutions and great powers, where colonial relations can be obscured. Recognising these challenges, NuSPACES wants to draw attention to nuclear cultural heritage-making as a productive social process, an interface which enables societies to cope with difficult and complex problems. New forms of community are produced through the practices of collecting, interpreting and governing nuclear cultural heritage. Nuclear cultural heritage-making has significant implications for democracy and civil society by opening up pathways for integrating different policy sectors, bringing different stakeholders together and actively shaping more viable, living milieus in the (post-)nuclear age. Key policy relevant insights are: 1. Nuclear communities are not fixed. Ideas about the future influence notions of the past and have the power to redefine existing communities and to define new ones, which means that stakeholder engagement processes have to be wide-reaching and inclusive. The task for the policy-maker is to enable community members to articulate and voice their take on futurity by developing an inclusive stakeholder engagement framework. This form of engagement is constitutive to identification of the public and cultural value of heritagisation, because the strategic context will influence significantly the selection process around nuclear cultural heritage. For instance, commitment to the hosting of nuclear objects can influence the narration and reinterpretation of nuclear roots or origins: these can, for example, be framed in terms of the heroic management of past errors, when the early stages of nuclearization resulted in environmental contamination and messy legacy of radioactive materials. 2. To make full use of the heterogeneous and polylogue materialities of nuclear sites, nuclear cultural heritage-making requires interdisciplinary collaboration recognising diverse professional expert knowledge. Nuclear decommissioning and associated memory work are of existential significance for scientist and engineer communities as well as for hosting and resident communities. However, nuclear decommissioning also presents a unique opportunity for other professional and social groups to uncover new aesthetical, social and political values in nuclear infrastructures and objects as they are material witnesses of the nuclear age. It is important, therefore, that representatives of these groups are engaged at all stages of the identification of the public and cultural values of materials, because these values will be articulated differently in different disciplinary contexts. What may appear as mundane, insignificant, or deemed technologically challenging for one group, can be of key importance for another group. Documentation and digitalisation are central, but they should not replace conservation and preservation. 3. Nuclear cultural heritage-making requires policy innovation by joining up different policy sectors to create an interface for genuinely democratic governance of nuclear locations. This is necessary to secure spatial and environmental justice, to minimise and prevent the risk of residual governance, as well as to mitigate the possible negative effects of long-termism. Failing to take into consideration the cultural value of nuclear establishments, as well as their cultural impacts, can be regarded as a form of residual governance. The heritage approach, in turn, can contribute to balancing short-term and local approaches in response to the unique challenge of governing the extreme long-term task of securing high-level radioactive waste. |
| Exploitation Route | NuSPACES hitherto have benefitted art and heritage practitioners and organisations, local governments, nuclear operators and research policy makers by developing evidence-based approaches and key terminology and creating sustained networks leading to new initiatives, such as novel forms of engaging stakeholders through cultural heritage into nuclear decommissioning process and widening collection and exhibition practices in the art and heritage sectors. NuSPACES' work has inspired research agendas and research groups internationally and, at this stage, the impacts are evolving. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Energy Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | http://www.nuspaces.eu |
| Description | NuSPACES research and stakeholder engagement have begun to generate a wide range of new initiatives and impacts, which illustrate the range of actors and activities for whom the key findings might be relevant. NuSPACES team contributed ideas and evidence that informed the NDA heritage strategy through participatory workshops, events and Dr Linda Ross's contribution to the strategy panel. This led to the adoption of the strategy in 2024. NuSPACES supported the Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius in their application for funding, which was awarded by the Lithuanian Council of Culture to restore the model of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, originally produced in 1980. The model was restored and presented in the permanent exhibition in 2025. In August 2024, the municipality of Visaginas inaugurated a new Visaginas City Museum, the making of which was informed through participation in NuSPACES activities. The City Museum is building a collection documenting everyday life in an atomic city, the history of the construction and decommissioning of the nuclear power plant and documents the difficult heritage, such as, for example, the experience of Visaginas's residents who participated in the clean-up of Chernobyl. Additionally, NuSPACES research informed exhibition projects: Dr Rindzeviciute served on the advisory board of the Materialising the Cold War project, led by Sam Alberti and Holger Nehring, which culminated in the exhibition "Cold War Scotland," where a wide range of objects representing nuclear material culture were displayed and which opened at the National Museum of Scotland in July 2024. Prof Storm contributed an interview for a film presented in the exposition on Ågesta nuclear power plant, opened at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm in 2023. In collaboration with Malmö Museum, Dr Edberg engaged children to produce drawings on Barsebäck nuclear power plant, which were accessioned in the Museum's permanent collection. Finally, in January 2025, Dr Rindzeviciute, Dr Dovydaityte and Prof Dremaite presented key findings of NuSPACES in a first conference on nuclear cultural heritage organised by the University of Bern, which gathered Swiss and German scholars and representatives of the nuclear industry and which launched the national debate on nuclear cultural heritage in Switzerland. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Informing the NDA heritage strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nda-group-heritage-vision-and-strategy |
| Description | Museum and museum collection |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | Nuclear Cultural Heritage conservation and preservation |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://etm.lt/ |
| Description | Artrepreneneurs on the Edge Between Artistic Autonomy and Marketization: Organizing Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR) |
| Amount | 5,999,000Â kr (SEK) |
| Funding ID | Dnr 23-PR2-0020 |
| Organisation | The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Title | Participatory methods for nuclear cultural heritage |
| Description | The NuSPACES consortium has developed research-based recommendations for inclusive and research-driven approaches to nuclear cultural heritage making in the communities that are undergoing nuclear decommissioning. These recommendations are published in the final report (2024). |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The research-driven approach to engagement and participation has been piloted in Visaginas, Lithuania, and resulted in the collection of data, museum collection acquisition and public engagement in the museum making. |
| URL | https://www.visaginomuziejus.lt/apie-muzieju/ |
| Description | NuSPACES consortium |
| Organisation | National Museums Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Participating institutions at the NuSPACES Consortium: Kingston University London (lead), Linkoping University, Vytautas Magnus University, UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), National Museums Scotland, Science Museum in London, National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden, Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper, State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, Visaginas City Council. Website: https://nuspaces.eu/ The team at Kingston University led the organisation of Kick-off meeting (15 November 2021), the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 1 which took place in Sellafield and West Cumbria (16-20 May 2022); an online Stakeholder workshop (7 December 2022) and a research webinar with Dr Aimee Slaughter and Veera Ojala (22 November 2023), and contributed to the events organised by Linkoping and Vytautas Magnus University teams: the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 2 which took place in Malmo and Barseback Nuclear Power Plant, 7 online and face to face research seminars. Contributions to stakeholders: Dounreay Heritage Advisory Panel, the 11th meeting, attended by Dr Linda Ross on 15th March 2023 (online). This panel was formed after the issuing of the Dounreay Heritage Strategy in 2010. Partnership working between the nuclear industry, heritage organisations, academia and the community has ensured that most of the actions identified in its implementation plan have been addressed. The panel will now review the plan, with a view to adapting it to suit current requirements. NDA Heritage Advisory Panel, 28th September 2022, Dr Linda Ross attended the 7th meeting of the - a cross-disciplinary body of industry representatives, heritage professionals and researchers - which is providing guidance on the NDA heritage initiative. This will provide a framework applicable across the board, including potential roll-out to commercial sites outwith the NDA's portfolio. This standard approach, which will see the production of guidelines covering object selection, intangible cultural heritage and building recording, will facilitate the creation of site heritage reports, the intention being a definitive national record. The documents are at draft stage but are expected to be finalised and made available shortly. The KU team supported a range of nuclear cultural heritage-making initiatives internationally, disseminated their research findings through articles in the media, podcasts and television shows, contributed their expertise to art exhibitions and film makers. Impact: the team supported a funding application (successful) made by the Museum of Energy and Technology in Vilnius to restore a model of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Participation in a new network: "An Online Forum: Integrated Approaches to the Dissonant Heritage in Europe: Insights, Networks and Future Perspectives, part of the Urban Agenda for the EU," Bundestag, Germany, Egle Rindzeviciute presented the project "Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage," 17 February 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Main contributions of the Associate Partners at the NuSPACES Consortium: UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Workshop I in Sellafield and Low Level Radioactive Waste Depository in 2022, provided access to the staff to conduct qualitative interview and archives research. National Museums Scotland made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI in their ongoing exhibition project on the Cold War, including the major conference in 2023 and provided access to research. Science Museum in London made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events and supported the PI and team in their archival research at the museum's archives. National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI of the Swedish team in the making of an exhibition on Agesta nuclear power plant. Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, and Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop II in 2023, disseminated the news about the project through their professional channels, and provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, and Visaginas City Council made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, are hosting the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop III in 2024, provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. Furthermore, Visaginas City Council has been co-developing a new museum initiative in close collaboration with the NuSPACES team. |
| Impact | This is a multidisciplinary collaboration, which combines: sociology, contemporary history, Cold War history, industrial heritage studies, cultural heritage studies, art history and curating. Outputs: such as publications, exhibitions, new research tools or methods Tekniska Museet/The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden, Anna Storm, featured in "Ågesta R3: A ripple in time," 35 min, produced by David and Hi-Jin Hodge, New Story Space, interviewed for the film, 2022. Available https://vimeo.com/691019900/dd51ab9640 and in the museum exposition. Burial (2022), a feature documentary film about nuclear waste by Emilija Skarnulyte. Egle Rindzeviciute acted as a consultant on the concept, factual background and narrative. Premiered at Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland. Website: https://emilijaskarnulyte.com/burial/ The 14th Baltic Triennial "The Endless Frontier," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 4 - August 15, 2021. Consulted exhibition curators regarding the title of the triennial; parts of Rindzeviciute's editorial for the special issue "Transforming East European Cultural Policy: The Endless Frontier" for The International Journal of Cultural Policy (vol.27, no. 2, 2021) were included in the publication accompanying the triennial. Named a top 10 contemporary art exhibition in the European Union in 2021 by Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/article/top-10-eu-exhibitions-2021-review Outcomes: such as new or improved products, processes or public policies Inclusion of a new nuclear-themed museum in the local development policy in Visaginas, Lithuania. Ongoing development of heritage approach as part of the NDA strategy. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | NuSPACES consortium |
| Organisation | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Participating institutions at the NuSPACES Consortium: Kingston University London (lead), Linkoping University, Vytautas Magnus University, UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), National Museums Scotland, Science Museum in London, National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden, Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper, State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, Visaginas City Council. Website: https://nuspaces.eu/ The team at Kingston University led the organisation of Kick-off meeting (15 November 2021), the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 1 which took place in Sellafield and West Cumbria (16-20 May 2022); an online Stakeholder workshop (7 December 2022) and a research webinar with Dr Aimee Slaughter and Veera Ojala (22 November 2023), and contributed to the events organised by Linkoping and Vytautas Magnus University teams: the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 2 which took place in Malmo and Barseback Nuclear Power Plant, 7 online and face to face research seminars. Contributions to stakeholders: Dounreay Heritage Advisory Panel, the 11th meeting, attended by Dr Linda Ross on 15th March 2023 (online). This panel was formed after the issuing of the Dounreay Heritage Strategy in 2010. Partnership working between the nuclear industry, heritage organisations, academia and the community has ensured that most of the actions identified in its implementation plan have been addressed. The panel will now review the plan, with a view to adapting it to suit current requirements. NDA Heritage Advisory Panel, 28th September 2022, Dr Linda Ross attended the 7th meeting of the - a cross-disciplinary body of industry representatives, heritage professionals and researchers - which is providing guidance on the NDA heritage initiative. This will provide a framework applicable across the board, including potential roll-out to commercial sites outwith the NDA's portfolio. This standard approach, which will see the production of guidelines covering object selection, intangible cultural heritage and building recording, will facilitate the creation of site heritage reports, the intention being a definitive national record. The documents are at draft stage but are expected to be finalised and made available shortly. The KU team supported a range of nuclear cultural heritage-making initiatives internationally, disseminated their research findings through articles in the media, podcasts and television shows, contributed their expertise to art exhibitions and film makers. Impact: the team supported a funding application (successful) made by the Museum of Energy and Technology in Vilnius to restore a model of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Participation in a new network: "An Online Forum: Integrated Approaches to the Dissonant Heritage in Europe: Insights, Networks and Future Perspectives, part of the Urban Agenda for the EU," Bundestag, Germany, Egle Rindzeviciute presented the project "Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage," 17 February 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Main contributions of the Associate Partners at the NuSPACES Consortium: UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Workshop I in Sellafield and Low Level Radioactive Waste Depository in 2022, provided access to the staff to conduct qualitative interview and archives research. National Museums Scotland made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI in their ongoing exhibition project on the Cold War, including the major conference in 2023 and provided access to research. Science Museum in London made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events and supported the PI and team in their archival research at the museum's archives. National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI of the Swedish team in the making of an exhibition on Agesta nuclear power plant. Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, and Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop II in 2023, disseminated the news about the project through their professional channels, and provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, and Visaginas City Council made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, are hosting the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop III in 2024, provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. Furthermore, Visaginas City Council has been co-developing a new museum initiative in close collaboration with the NuSPACES team. |
| Impact | This is a multidisciplinary collaboration, which combines: sociology, contemporary history, Cold War history, industrial heritage studies, cultural heritage studies, art history and curating. Outputs: such as publications, exhibitions, new research tools or methods Tekniska Museet/The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden, Anna Storm, featured in "Ågesta R3: A ripple in time," 35 min, produced by David and Hi-Jin Hodge, New Story Space, interviewed for the film, 2022. Available https://vimeo.com/691019900/dd51ab9640 and in the museum exposition. Burial (2022), a feature documentary film about nuclear waste by Emilija Skarnulyte. Egle Rindzeviciute acted as a consultant on the concept, factual background and narrative. Premiered at Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland. Website: https://emilijaskarnulyte.com/burial/ The 14th Baltic Triennial "The Endless Frontier," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 4 - August 15, 2021. Consulted exhibition curators regarding the title of the triennial; parts of Rindzeviciute's editorial for the special issue "Transforming East European Cultural Policy: The Endless Frontier" for The International Journal of Cultural Policy (vol.27, no. 2, 2021) were included in the publication accompanying the triennial. Named a top 10 contemporary art exhibition in the European Union in 2021 by Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/article/top-10-eu-exhibitions-2021-review Outcomes: such as new or improved products, processes or public policies Inclusion of a new nuclear-themed museum in the local development policy in Visaginas, Lithuania. Ongoing development of heritage approach as part of the NDA strategy. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | NuSPACES consortium |
| Organisation | Science Museum Group |
| Department | The Science Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Participating institutions at the NuSPACES Consortium: Kingston University London (lead), Linkoping University, Vytautas Magnus University, UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), National Museums Scotland, Science Museum in London, National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden, Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper, State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, Visaginas City Council. Website: https://nuspaces.eu/ The team at Kingston University led the organisation of Kick-off meeting (15 November 2021), the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 1 which took place in Sellafield and West Cumbria (16-20 May 2022); an online Stakeholder workshop (7 December 2022) and a research webinar with Dr Aimee Slaughter and Veera Ojala (22 November 2023), and contributed to the events organised by Linkoping and Vytautas Magnus University teams: the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 2 which took place in Malmo and Barseback Nuclear Power Plant, 7 online and face to face research seminars. Contributions to stakeholders: Dounreay Heritage Advisory Panel, the 11th meeting, attended by Dr Linda Ross on 15th March 2023 (online). This panel was formed after the issuing of the Dounreay Heritage Strategy in 2010. Partnership working between the nuclear industry, heritage organisations, academia and the community has ensured that most of the actions identified in its implementation plan have been addressed. The panel will now review the plan, with a view to adapting it to suit current requirements. NDA Heritage Advisory Panel, 28th September 2022, Dr Linda Ross attended the 7th meeting of the - a cross-disciplinary body of industry representatives, heritage professionals and researchers - which is providing guidance on the NDA heritage initiative. This will provide a framework applicable across the board, including potential roll-out to commercial sites outwith the NDA's portfolio. This standard approach, which will see the production of guidelines covering object selection, intangible cultural heritage and building recording, will facilitate the creation of site heritage reports, the intention being a definitive national record. The documents are at draft stage but are expected to be finalised and made available shortly. The KU team supported a range of nuclear cultural heritage-making initiatives internationally, disseminated their research findings through articles in the media, podcasts and television shows, contributed their expertise to art exhibitions and film makers. Impact: the team supported a funding application (successful) made by the Museum of Energy and Technology in Vilnius to restore a model of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Participation in a new network: "An Online Forum: Integrated Approaches to the Dissonant Heritage in Europe: Insights, Networks and Future Perspectives, part of the Urban Agenda for the EU," Bundestag, Germany, Egle Rindzeviciute presented the project "Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage," 17 February 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Main contributions of the Associate Partners at the NuSPACES Consortium: UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Workshop I in Sellafield and Low Level Radioactive Waste Depository in 2022, provided access to the staff to conduct qualitative interview and archives research. National Museums Scotland made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI in their ongoing exhibition project on the Cold War, including the major conference in 2023 and provided access to research. Science Museum in London made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events and supported the PI and team in their archival research at the museum's archives. National Museum of Science and Technology in Sweden made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, engaged the PI of the Swedish team in the making of an exhibition on Agesta nuclear power plant. Regionmuseet Skåne, Malmö museums, and Barsebäck Kraft/Uniper made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, hosted the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop II in 2023, disseminated the news about the project through their professional channels, and provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Energy and Technology Museum, and Visaginas City Council made their staff available to participate in the NuSPACEs events, are hosting the NuSPACES Participatory Workshop III in 2024, provided access to empirical material through archival research and participatory methods. Furthermore, Visaginas City Council has been co-developing a new museum initiative in close collaboration with the NuSPACES team. |
| Impact | This is a multidisciplinary collaboration, which combines: sociology, contemporary history, Cold War history, industrial heritage studies, cultural heritage studies, art history and curating. Outputs: such as publications, exhibitions, new research tools or methods Tekniska Museet/The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden, Anna Storm, featured in "Ågesta R3: A ripple in time," 35 min, produced by David and Hi-Jin Hodge, New Story Space, interviewed for the film, 2022. Available https://vimeo.com/691019900/dd51ab9640 and in the museum exposition. Burial (2022), a feature documentary film about nuclear waste by Emilija Skarnulyte. Egle Rindzeviciute acted as a consultant on the concept, factual background and narrative. Premiered at Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland. Website: https://emilijaskarnulyte.com/burial/ The 14th Baltic Triennial "The Endless Frontier," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 4 - August 15, 2021. Consulted exhibition curators regarding the title of the triennial; parts of Rindzeviciute's editorial for the special issue "Transforming East European Cultural Policy: The Endless Frontier" for The International Journal of Cultural Policy (vol.27, no. 2, 2021) were included in the publication accompanying the triennial. Named a top 10 contemporary art exhibition in the European Union in 2021 by Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/article/top-10-eu-exhibitions-2021-review Outcomes: such as new or improved products, processes or public policies Inclusion of a new nuclear-themed museum in the local development policy in Visaginas, Lithuania. Ongoing development of heritage approach as part of the NDA strategy. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Nuclear Culture Deep Geologic Repository Exploratory Workshop |
| Organisation | Umea University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Egle Rindzeviciute is participating in the Nuclear Culture Deep Geologic Repository Exploratory Workshop project which is led by Prof Ele Carpenter (Umea University) and is funded by Vetenskapsrådet (2024-2025). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Carpenter has organised a visit to Onkalo spent fuel repository and a public-facing event at SOLU/Bioart society in Helsinki (2024), where Dr Rindzeviciute shared the key findings of NuSPACES. |
| Impact | This multidisciplinary collaboration involves critical architecture, creative arts, geology, sociology and environmental history approaches. The interim outcomes are: a visit to Onkalo and a public-facing workshop at SOLU/Bioart society in Helsinki which mapped creative approaches to deep nuclear waste repositories (2024). |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | An exhibition text and essay in an art magazine on nuclear simulators |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Egle Rindzeviciute published a text "Archive / Simulator" (an earlier version of which was distributed in the art exhibition "Splitting the Atom" at Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, 2020) in a special issue "Decolonising Atomic Infrastructures: Politics, Heritage and Poetics" edited by Egle Rindzeviciute for Artnews.lt (19 October 2021) [In Lithuanian] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://artnews.lt/rubrikos/zurnalas/dekolonizuojant-atomines-infrastrukturas |
| Description | Consulting for film "Burial" by Emilija Skarnulyte |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Egle Rindzeviciute advised Emilija Skarnulyte on her film dedicated to the radioactive cycle of uranium mining, nuclear energy production and burial of radioactive waste: Emilija Skarnulyte, "Burial" (2022). The film was screened at 2022 Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon (CH) and 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (CA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Essay on cultural meanings of infrastructures for art magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Egle Rindzeviciute was invited to write an essay on industrial infrastructures and their cultural legacies in the Baltic region: Rindzeviciute, E. "Ingrown Infrastructures." A Shade Colder 3 (2022). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ashadecolder.com/ingrown-infrastructures |
| Description | First public debate on nuclear cultural heritage in Lithuania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 25 April 2024, NuSPACES organised what was the first public debate on nuclear cultural heritage in Lithuania with the participation of the deputy director of the Heritage Department, the director of planning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, the head of strategic planning and investment at Visaginas city council, the director of the Energy and Technology museum and the NuSPACES project leader. During the debate participants discussed the ways in which heritage valuation could enter nuclear decommissioning process, which has led to a follow up meeting of stakeholders and further discussion about the collaboration between the museum and nuclear power plant authorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.vdu.lt/lt/nuspaces-lietuvoje-viesi-branduolinio-kulturos-paveldo-tyrejai/ |
| Description | Interview for national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 22 April 2024, Dr Rindzeviciute and Dr Dovydaityte gave a one hour long interview that was streamed live on the Lithuanian National radio. This interview focused on the key findings of NuSPACES focusing on the potential of nuclear cultural heritage to strengthen local democracy and public engagement, it was recorded and is available as a podcast on the broadcaster's website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.lrt.lt/radioteka/irasas/2000336719/mokslininke-egle-rindzeviciute-per-kultura-apie-brand... |
| Description | Invited talk about the nuclear winter for German physics society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute delivered a talk on the Cold War narratives about the aftermath of nuclear war ("Shaping Cold War Futures through the Nuclear Winter Study: Narratives, Imaginaries and Legitimacy") to an audience comprising German historians of physics, school teachers of physics and physics researchers, as part of the conference "Physics and the Environment in Historical Perspective," the 20th Symposium of the Division for History of Physics at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society in Greifswald, 26-28 February 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachlich/ohne-sektion/fvgp/veranstaltungen/symposium-2024-2/... |
| Description | Invited talk at the Institute of Historic Building Conservation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute presented an invited talk "New Energy (Nuclear): Understanding Values in New Heritage," as part of the Aberdeen School "Heritage on the Edge," organised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, 17 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.ihbc.org.uk/?tribe_events=building-conservation-summer-school-2022 |
| Description | Invited talk at the Lithuanian National Art Gallery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk was presented at the Lithuanian National Art Gallery on the occasion of the closing of the art exhibition "If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible: Infrastructures and Solidarities beyond the post-Soviet Condition." The talk sparked a discussion about the intersection of cultural and political values of nuclear power in the context of national security and Russia's war against Ukraine. Vilnius, Lithuania, 17 June 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.if-disrupted.lt/curatorial-text/ |
| Description | Invited to talk about science diplomacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | By invitation of the International Science Council, Dr Rindzeviciute participated in a discussion roundtable on science diplomacy ("Science Diplomacy in the Fragmented World" ), organised as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC, 1-6 March 2023. The discussion was attended by diplomats and early career scientists considering to pursue career in diplomacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/30744 |
| Description | Keynote on nuclear power in Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute gave an invited keynote "Hosts and Hostages of Nuclear Infrastructures: Managing and Containing Nuclear Materialities in the Post-Soviet Space" in an interdisciplinary event organised as part of the art research project "Salt.Clay.Rock." The talk was delivered online and streamed live to the face to face audience at nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 17 November 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.visitberlin.de/en/event/salt-clay-rock |
| Description | Kick off workshop, Kingston University London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This kick-off workshop brought together 40 stakeholders from nuclear establishments and museums and university researchers in the UK, Sweden and Lithuania, to meet each other and discuss the agenda for the NuSPACES project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lecture at a summer school in Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute gave an invited talk "New Energy (Nuclear): Understanding Values in New Heritage" at The Institute of Historic Building Conservation, as part of the Aberdeen School "Heritage on the Edge," 17 June 2022, which led to the consideration of nuclear themes in the wider context of historic building conservation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://aberdeen2022.ihbc.org.uk/ |
| Description | NuSPACES Participatory Workshop 1: Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In 16-20 May 2022, NuSPACES organised a participatory workshop for Associate Partners in West Cumbria, UK. The core group of 26 participants visited Sellafield and cultural and heritage sites in the area. Up to 100 participants attended a public event that included a film screening and debate "What heritage for Sellafield?" The event sparked interest in the opportunities offered by nuclear cultural heritage development among local professionals as evidenced in the follow up discussions and correspondence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NuSPACES online meeting with associate partners 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The online meeting gathered Associate Partners to discuss their progress and plan future activities of the NuSPACES project. The stakeholders made input in the programme of the Participatory Workshop 2 in Malmo/Barseback, Sweden and the discussion of the handbook on nuclear cultural heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NuSPACES participatory workshop 2: Barseback |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The second NuSPACES participatory workshop was held from 8 to 11 May 2023 in Malmö, Barsebäck & Lund, Sweden, and was attended by 30 representatives from nuclear power plants, museums, universities, and town councils from Lithuania, Sweden, and the UK. NuSPACES organised the public event "Nuclear Cultural Heritage: How are we to remember the Barsebäck nuclear power plant in the future?" hosted by Malmo Museums. The event featured an art intervention by sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard, who recorded sounds in the Barsebäck power plant, a panel discussion with 5 participants from the industry, museum, and anti-nuclear movement, and a film screening of the 1963 documentary "Atomer till vardags" and the brand new documentary "Ågesta - a ripple in time". In addition, guests had the opportunity to view recent drawings by children on the history and future of Barsebäck, as well as nuclear photography by Jenny Eliasson, and to participate in a nuclear quiz. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://nuspaces.eu/workshops/workshop-in-sweden/ |
| Description | NuSPACES participatory workshop 3: Visaginas & Vilnius |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 22-26 April 2024, NuSPACES organised a public engagement workshop, with the participation of 28 members of NuSPACES collaboration and associated researchers and practitioners in the atomic town of Visaginas, Lithuania. The workshop was hosted by the Visaginas city council and included presentations by the representatives of the National Museums Scotland and Science Museum in London, it was attended by members of the municipality, local cultural organisations and NGOs, who discussed international examples and local initiatives to develop inclusive approaches to nuclear cultural heritage making. In addition to the workshop, the NuSPACES consortium visited Ignalina nuclear power plant, the simulator training centre, Visaginas city museum and youth cultural centre where they met local practitioners and policy makers. The visit was reported on the national and local media and inspired further development of the City museum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.visaginomuziejus.lt/ |
| Description | NuSPACES project presentation for nuclear industry practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave an invited talk at the Charterhouse Nuclear History Conference 2023, Godalming, 7 July 2023. The conference is supported by Centre for Science and Security (CSSS) at King's College London (KCL) and is organised biannually at Charterhouse. It gathers retired and active practitioners from the UK and international nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NuSPACES public facing events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NuSPACES organised 7 internal research seminars both online and F2F; three participatory engagement workshops that included academic researchers and scientific presentations: Sellafield Workshop in the UK (16-20 May 2022), Malmo/Barseback Workshop in Sweden (8-11 May 2023), Visaginas and Vilnius Workshop in Lithuania (22-25 April 2024) and two webinars open to the public (17 May 2024, 22 November 2023). Altogether these events consolidated an international community interested in the development of nuclear cultural heritage and resulted in further events, networking and publication projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | http://www.nuspaces.eu |
| Description | NuSPACES report launch at Science Museum in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 18 September 2024 NuSPACES organised the final report launch which was hosted at Dana Research Centre, Science Museum in London. The launch involved invited talks by the representatives of National Museums Scotland and the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and was followed up by the presentation of key academic findings on 19 September, which included a keynote on public participation in culture and inequalities by Dr Mark Taylor (Sheffield University). The launch was attended by scholars, heritage and arts professionals and research policy makers and resulted in further dialogue with cultural heritage funding bodies on the future policy toward nuclear cultural heritage. The report was further disseminated through the website, a podcast, mailing lists and media interviews in participating countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://nuspaces.eu/concluding-report/ |
| Description | NuSPACES website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The website has been created to disseminate the information about the project's core activities. Since its launch, the website pages have been viewed 22,977 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://nuspaces.eu/ |
| Description | Participation in the NDA heritage strategy discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In 2022-2023 NuSPACES postdoctoral researcher Dr Linda Ross participated at the NDA Heritage Advisory Panel, a cross-disciplinary body of industry representatives, heritage professionals and researchers, which is providing guidance on the NDA heritage initiative. The NDA heritage strategy has been adopted in September 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nda-group-heritage-vision-and-strategy |
| Description | Podcast for International Science Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Egle Rindzeviciute was interviewed by the International Science Council to reflect on the Cold War lessons for science diplomacy. This fed into organisation of a panel session on science diplomacy at the annual conference of the American Association for Advancement of Science in Washington DC, 5 March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://council.science/current/podcasts/new-podcast-episode-science-in-times-of-crisis/ |
| Description | Podcast interview for the Lithuanian National Radio and Television |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this one hour long interview, Dr Egle Rindzeviciute introduced the topic of nuclear cultural heritage to the Lithuanian audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000230563/homo-cultus-is-balkono-pokalbis-su-egle-rindzeviciute... |
| Description | Podcast on The Will to Predict |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast on Dr Rindzeviciute's new book "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future," was hosted by Prof David O'Brien (University of Manchester) for the Critical Theory edition as part of the New Books Network podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-will-to-predict |
| Description | Presentation at the Online Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Egle Rindzeviciute presented the preliminary project findings for the participants at the Online Forum: Integrated Approaches to the Dissonant Heritage in Europe: Insights, Networks and Future Perspectives, part of the Urban Agenda for the EU, 17 February 2022. This led to increased awareness of the relevance of nuclear cultural heritage in an urban context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.heritageresearch-hub.eu/event/online-forum-integrated-approaches-to-the-dissonant-herita... |
| Description | Presentation at the online forum, Urban Agenda for the EU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute was invited to present the project "Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage" for Online Forum: Integrated Approaches to the Dissonant Heritage in Europe: Insights, Networks and Future Perspectives, part of the Urban Agenda for the EU, 17 February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at the Estonian Museum of Architecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on reflexive control and epistemological engagement with the future delivered at The Estonian Museum of Architecture in relation to the opening of the exhibition "Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders, 1960s-1980s," Tallinn, Estonia, 27-28 April 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.arhitektuurimuuseum.ee/en/naitus/forecast-and-fantasy-architecture-without-borders-1960s... |
| Description | Talk at the interdisciplinary workshop on the State Socialist Anthropocene |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rindzeviciute gave a talk at the panel on "The Socialist Anthropocene," which gathered anthropologists and art students in an international workshop "Ecologies and Infrastructures in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea," organised by Prof Andrew Barry at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 19-20 October 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Webinar Atomic Commons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NuSPACES organised the webinar "Atomic Commons" on 17 May 2024, which included talks by Elaine Mercer-Jones, "'Welcome to Dounreay': Ideological Narratives of Hospitality at the Dounreay Visitor Centre, c.1960-2007" and Federica Fava, "Back to Atomic Past: Borgo Sabotino ex-Nuclear Power Plant towards New Common Goods" and was attended by an international community of heritage practitioners, nuclear industry practitioners and scholars who discussed comparatively the diverse issues in relation to the local and national cultural valuation of the sites undergoing nuclear decommissioning in Italy and the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Webinar Chernobyl 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Egle Rindzeviciute was invited to deliver a talk "Securing Chernobyl through Heritage Making" in a webinar "Chernobyl 2022: Why Is It Important to Remember, and What Should Nuclear Safety Approaches Be Today?" organised by the Research Centre of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office (OST Research Centre), the Oxford Belarus Observatory (OBO) and GLOBSEC think tank in cooperation with NGO Ecohome (Belarus), 21 April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpK5D66Y0M |
| Description | Workshop at a summer school in Latvia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Egle Rindzeviciute presented a workshop on the post-socialist governance of toxic and radioactive waste which included a site visit as part of the 2022 Summer School "Post-Socialist Ecologies," organised by Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art in Valmiera, Latvia, 14-16 August 2022. The school was attended by artists, curators and academic researchers from several European countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://visit.valmiera.lv/en/pasakumi/lccas-summer-school-postsocialist-ecologies/ |
| Description | Workshop at the Tallinn Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | More than international 50 PhD students attended a workshop on nuclear power, future and politics of memory as part of "Disentangling Eurasia: Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Successors," the Third Tallinn Summer School in Soviet History & Culture, organised by Tallinn University on 28 July - 4 August 2023. Dr Rindzeviciute participated in a discussion roundtable "Treating Soviet Legacies: Memory, Heritage, and the Environment" and delivered a workshop "Critical Infrastructures: Predicting and Orchestrating Our Cybernetic and Nuclear Worlds" which raised awareness of the cultural complexity of nuclear power among a group of PhD students from Europe, Central Asia, South East Asia and Americas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/disentangling2023/home |