NuSPACES

May 13, 2024

Online seminar “Atomic Commons”

The NuSPACES team invites everyone to a free online seminar “Atomic Commons,” featuring presentations by Elaine Mercer-Jones and Federica Fava and moderated by Egle Rindzeviciute on 17 May 2024 at 10:30-12:00 (London time). This is an online event on MS Teams which is free to attend.

Elaine Mercer-Jones, “‘Welcome to Dounreay’: Ideological Narratives of Hospitality at the Dounreay Visitor Centre, c.1960-2007”
Federica Fava, “Back to Atomic Past: Borgo Sabotino ex-Nuclear Power Plant towards New Common Goods”

Dr Elaine Mercer-Jones has a PhD in the History of Medicine from Edinburgh University, and has taught business and marketing ethics at Edinburgh Napier University for 25 years. Her current research interests include the role of archives as a source of advertising and other ephemera for historical marketing research, and the use of marketing communications by Dounreay and other UK nuclear industries. As E. S. Thomson she is a best-selling author of historical crime fiction, and is interested in how narrative is used in business and marketing.

Dr Federica Fava is Assistant Professor at Roma Tre University (Rome, IT), where she is research member of the project CHANGES – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society and scientific coordinator of the EUI-IA funded project We-Z – Emotional WEllbeing of generation-Z reconnecting communities and spaces through imperfect health. Her research focuses on urban heritage regeneration through projects based on cultural, participative and innovative practices, investigating how and under what conditions they can be upscaled and integrated in a just city development.

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Please note that the webinar will not be recorded. Contact the organisers: Dr Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University London), e.rindzeviciute@kingston.ac.uk

The research project “Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)” is funded by the Joint-Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change, the European Commission (2021-2024).

Previous activities

February 4, 2025

Linara Dovydaitytė moderated a discussion on “The Future of Nuclear Energy: Challenges and Opportunities”

On February 4th, the Museum of Energy and Technology hosted a presentation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant mock-up simulator. During the event Dr Linara Dovydaitytė delivered a lecture titled “It's much clearer in front of a working mock-up...”. Following her lecture, L. Dovydaitytė moderated a discussion on “The Future of Nuclear Energy: Challenges and Opportunities”.

January 24, 2025

The NuSPACES results presented at the conference “Radiant Monuments. Nuclear Power Plants Between Cultural Value and Contaminated Sites”

On 23-24 Januray 2025, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Linara Dovydaitytė and Marija Drėmaitė presented the NuSPACES results at the conference “Radiant Monuments. Nuclear Power Plants Between Cultural Value and Contaminated Sites” at the University of Bern, co-organized with ICOMOS Swiss. The NuSPACES Final Report was discussed as a good practice in the event intended to start debates on nuclear cultural heritage in Switzerland.

December 17, 2024

The NuSPACES Final Report presented on the Lithuanian National Radio

On 17 December 2024, Linara Dovydaitytė was interviewed about the policy recommendations for research and practice of nuclear cultural heritage, based on the NuSPACES final report. The interview was broadcast on Lithuanian National Radio’s morning culture programme ‘Ryto allegro’.