The project argues that within the infrastructure of climate computation, the Earth is already described and anticipated through onto-epistemological imaginaries. The research sits within the processuality of climate infrastructure to document how Earth becomes world(s), a constructed imaginary of the Earth. These world(s) and their anticipation have a recursive and concrete impact on the present through politico-scientific endeavours, such as the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP) developed in the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which becomes actionable through policies and investment frameworks. The project focuses on two main computational frameworks aimed at a non-scientific public: the simple climate model Hector and the Digital Twin Engine platform from the European Destination Earth project. To inquire into these two computational frameworks, the project mobilises the cosmogram as both the object of study and as a practice through which to inquire, document, and intervene within the climate infrastructure to reimagine climate computation otherwise. In this research, participatory and transdisciplinary approaches are developed, including cosmological debugging of climate models and interfaces, collective game protocols, climate engines (the transposition of climate models into game engines), and fiction writing.
The project is funded by the SNSF DOC.CH research grant for the period 2024–2028.
