Time-travelling the time-travel in(to) heat – Thoughts and speculations about thermic futures in urban spaces

In the context of the Berliner Blätter’s issue “Elemental Urbanism” (edited by Ignacio Farías & Laura Kemmer), Elisabeth Luggauer and Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros have explored future heat imaginaries. They did this together with Juli Sikorska, a heat researcher who guided them through a time travel exercise to worlds where heat becomes central to public life.

In their imaginary journey they take three different loops, each of them increasingly hotter. They encounter multiple knowledges and technologies that future citizens of the world have invented and developed to cope with and mitigate heat, and they somehow experience them.

Elisabeth Luggauer and Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros | Time-travelling the time-travel in(to) heat – Thoughts and speculations about thermic futures in urban spaces | Berliner Blätter #87/2024 | Special Issue “Elemental Urbanism” | https://www.berliner-blaetter.de/index.php/blaetter/article/view/1178