Michaela Büsse
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Büsse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Büsse |
| SIGNATURE | BUSSE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Sandiness of Late Capitalism
Once a vibrant trading hub in Southeast Asia, the Malaysian port city of Malacca is now part ghost town, part real estate development. Built on the prospect of transforming Malacca into a tourist magnet and a node in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, hasty reclamation and exaggerated sales promises have turned the coastline into a mud field and the construction sites into ruins. Driven by national and transnational interests, sand is made operati…
Turning Brownfields into Brightfields
The reuse of abandoned late-industrial sites for renewable energy projects has emerged as a promising strategy for decarbonization and environmental justice in a time of climate emergency. Although challenged by the roll-back of renewable energy policies in the United States, governments and companies frame the use of “unproductive” lands for solar and wind power development as viable solutions to problems of land use, economic decline, climate c…
Built on Sand
This essay discusses the author’s experience doing field work in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, and suggests that the messy entanglements between sand mining, real estate development, and local life afford an analysis that is both situated in and attentive to the global economies of sand. Thinking along the ecological, social, economic, and political dimensions of shifting sands not only challenges systematic analysis; it also affects how we concei…
Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling
This article explores the use of agent-based modelling as a critical and playful form of engagement with cooperative housing organizations. Because of its inherent complexities vis-à-vis decision-making, commoning is a well-suited field of study to explore the potential of humanities-driven experimental design (media) research to provoke critical reflection, problem-finding and productive complication. By introducing two different agent-based mod…
(Re)Thinking Design with New Materialism
The article proposes an empirical and discursive understanding of design as engaging and intensifying uneven power relations. By affiliating with the ontological turn in anthropology, such re-defined reading of design acknowledges design's complicity with extractive capitalism while aiming to open up possibilities to think design otherwise. In recent years, inspired by the resurgence of materialism, abstract notions of design as mediating practic…
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Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling
This article explores the use of agent-based modelling as a critical and playful form of engagement with cooperative housing organizations. Because of its inherent complexities vis-à-vis decision-making, commoning is a well-suited field of study to explore the potential of humanities-driven experimental design (media) research to provoke critical reflection, problem-finding and productive complication. By introducing two different agent-based mod…
(Re)Thinking Design with New Materialism
The article proposes an empirical and discursive understanding of design as engaging and intensifying uneven power relations. By affiliating with the ontological turn in anthropology, such re-defined reading of design acknowledges design's complicity with extractive capitalism while aiming to open up possibilities to think design otherwise. In recent years, inspired by the resurgence of materialism, abstract notions of design as mediating practic…
Built on Sand
This essay discusses the author’s experience doing field work in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, and suggests that the messy entanglements between sand mining, real estate development, and local life afford an analysis that is both situated in and attentive to the global economies of sand. Thinking along the ecological, social, economic, and political dimensions of shifting sands not only challenges systematic analysis; it also affects how we concei…
Turning Brownfields into Brightfields
The reuse of abandoned late-industrial sites for renewable energy projects has emerged as a promising strategy for decarbonization and environmental justice in a time of climate emergency. Although challenged by the roll-back of renewable energy policies in the United States, governments and companies frame the use of “unproductive” lands for solar and wind power development as viable solutions to problems of land use, economic decline, climate c…
The Sandiness of Late Capitalism
Once a vibrant trading hub in Southeast Asia, the Malaysian port city of Malacca is now part ghost town, part real estate development. Built on the prospect of transforming Malacca into a tourist magnet and a node in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, hasty reclamation and exaggerated sales promises have turned the coastline into a mud field and the construction sites into ruins. Driven by national and transnational interests, sand is made operati…
Engineering (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Real estate (2 works)