Academic Publications
The Temporal Texture of Decommissioning: Dealing with the Residues of a Nuclear Age
Ange Pottin & Ulrike Felt (08/2025) Preprint of a paper under review
Ulrike Felt (06/2025) Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Vol. 21). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15827925
Carsten Horn & Ulrike Felt (06/2025) Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2025.2515225,
Carsten Horn & Ulrike Felt (06/2025) Environmental Science and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104122
Kaye Mathies (2025)
MA Thesis
Assembling the Data Steward: Caring for data futures in academic research
Anastesia Nesbitt (2024)
MA Thesis
Innovation Residues – Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures
Felt Ulrike (2021)
ERC Advanced Grant, Proposal
Embracing the “Atomic Future” in Post-World-War II Austria
Bayer Florian & Felt Ulrike (2019)
Technology and Culture, 60 (1): 165-191
doi: 10.1353/tech.2019.0005
Living a real-world experiment. Post-Fukushima imaginaries and spatial practices of “containing the nuclear”
Felt Ulrike (2017)
In I. van de Poel, L. Asveld, & D. Mehos (Eds.), Experimentation beyond the laboratory: new perspectives on technology in society (pp. 149-178). Routledge.
Talks
The Residues of Innovation: Caring for Environmental Futures
Talk @ ECH Retreat
Ulrike Felt
2-3 October 2025
Bad Vöslau, Austria
Talk @ SafeND, Berlin
Ulrike Felt, Ange Pottin
September 16-19, 2025
Berlin, Germany
Invited Talk @ VI STS Summer School, CTS Lab, FLASCO
Ulrike Felt
June 17, 2025
Quito, Ecuador
Invited Talk @ VI STS Summerschool, CTS lab, FLASCO
Ulrike Felt
June 17, 2025
Quito, Ecuador
Mikroplastik: Der lange Schatten einer bahnbrechenden Innovation
Wiener Vorlesung @ Radiokulturhaus Ulrike Felt
February 17, 2025
Vienna, Austria
INNOVATION RESIDUES: Extending our understanding of responsible innovation
Lecture @ Insttitut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris Ulrike Felt
May 2, 2025
Paris, France
Classification in action:Shaping microplastics as epistemic and regulatory object
Talk @ STS Hub Conference 2025, Diffracting the Critical, Noah Münster & Ulrike Felt
March 11-14, 2025
Berlin, Germany
Assembling sustainability: Citizens engaging with the left-behinds of innovation-driven societies
Talk @ STS Hub Conference 2025, Diffracting the Critical, Ulrike Felt & Livia Regen
March 11-14, 2025
Berlin, Germany
THE LINGERING TRACES OF INNOVATION: Exploring residual journeys through society
Invited talk @ SPIRAL, Ulrike Felt
February 20, 2025
Universitét de Liège, Belgium
AU-DELÀ DU VISIBLE : L’art à percevoir une catastrophe nucléaire autrement
Invited talk @ Liège in the context of the exhibition “Picturing the invisible”, Ulrike Felt
February 19, 2025
Liège, Belgium
Is it possible to be a “non-nuclear” nation in a re-nuclearizing world?
Invited talk @ TEMA Technology and Social Change high seminar, Ulrike Felt
December 4, 2024
Linköpig, Sweden
The time(s) we live in/by: Blind spots, responsible foresight and the messiness of the science-policy nexus when caring for the environment
Talk @ AFINO International Conference, Ulrike Felt
August 28-20, 2024
Oslo, Norway
Whose problems, whose solutions?
Adressing tensions between digital transformation and environmental sustainability
Keynote @Taking stock of three decades of of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for social transformations: fostering justice, pluralism and sustainability, UCLouvain, Ulrike Felt
November 28, 2024
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Navigating regulatory complexity: Challenges and shifting problem framings in turning microplastics into a European policy object
Talk @ MICRO2024 International Conference, Ulrike Felt & Noah Münster
September 23-27, 2024
Arife, Lanzarote, Spain
How to engage with the invisible left-behinds of innovation?
Talk @ EASST/4S Conference, “Making and Doing Transformations”, Ulrike Felt , Sarah Ortega & Livia Regen
July 17, 2024
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Collateral Transitions: Reassembling Societies, Data Centers and the Twin Transition
Talk @ EASST/4S Conference, “Making and Doing Transformations”, Carsten Horn & Ulrike Felt
July 18, 2024
Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Data for the Public Good”? Expanding Data Practices Confront Environmental Concerns
Keynote @ Workshop “The Ends of Data”, University of Copenhagen Ulrike Felt
June 12, 2024
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The environmental limits to digital solutionism: Challenging the European Commission’s “Twin Transition” imaginary
Invited talk @ TIK Science Studies Colloquium , Ulrike Felt
May 29, 2024
University of Oslo, Norway
Thinking innovation in reverse: Broadening the notion of responsible innovation
Invited talk @ TIK Seminar Series, Ulrike Felt
May 28, 2024
University of Oslo, Norway
Datafication and its Discontents.
Investigating Digital Innovation Societies Through Emerging Controversies About Data Centers in Austria, France, and Ireland
Paper presented at STS Austria 2023, Carsten Horn
November 28, 2023
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
“Data waste/wasting” – How to think about digital practices and the lives of data from an environmental perspective
Paper presentation by Ulrike Felt at the 4S conference
November 10, 2023
Honolulu, Hawaii
Of wasting and valuing – Reading the development of innovation societies through its residues
Paper presentation by Ulrike Felt at the SHOT 2023 Conference
October 26-29, 2023
Los Angeles, USA
The afterlives of innovations: Understanding innovation societies through following its residues
Invited lecture, Ulrike Felt
June 21, 2023
STS Department, TU Munich
Podiumsdiskussion “Sind wir noch zu retten?”
Participation in a panel discussion on the question of the semester, Ulrike Felt
June 19, 2023
Festsaal, Universität Wien
Innovation in Reverse. How to govern innovation societies differently through engaging with the residues of innovation
Talk presented at the STS-Austria Workshop
December 6, 2022
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Innovation in Reverse – Engaging with left-behinds of innovation
Falling Walls, 2022 Winner, Social Sciences and Humanities
November, 2022
Falling Walls, Berlin
Policy Engagements
Media Articles, Interviews, Blog posts
Final Report
The final report on the results of the Advisory Board on Waste Management for the 2021–2025 mandate was handed over on 8 October 2025 to Secretary-General Dr. Abentung, acting on behalf of the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management. Four years of collective work in a wonderful group of scientists, policy makers, members of civil society and researchers. Ulrike Felt had the priviledge to be part it, learning a lot but also bringing my experience from the INNOREs project to the table.
For the report and many annex informations see http://www.entsorgungsbeirat.gv.at/themen/ergebnisse
8 October, 2025
Atommüll bis Mikroplastik: Die unbequemen Folgen unserer Innovationen
Article by Jana Wiese
Das Forschungsprojekt “INNORES” untersucht, was von technologischen Neuerungen übrigbleibt und wie das Umwelt und Gesellschaften beeinflusst. Erschienen in Futurezones
September, 2025
Ulrike Felt
Storytellers: How the Residues of Innovation Could Guide our Decisions
In the most recent edition ECHO, the newsletter of the Environment and Climate Hub of the University of Vienna, Hanna Gabriel wrote a story about the research we do in the INNORES project. Have a look.
May, 2025
Ulrike Felt
Podcast: Mikroplastik: Der Kunststoff in uns
Falter Podcast Folge #1371
April, 2025
Ulrike Felt
Of Innovation, Wast and Value
Blog entry on a visit to the Austrian Interim Storage for nuclear waste at Seibersdorf
March, 2024
Carsten Horn
Unliebsame Folgen von Technologien
Technologien haben häufig auch unliebsame Folgen. Eine Forscherin schlägt daher nun vor, die Hinterlassenschaften von Innovationen ins Zentrum von Entscheidungen zu rücken. New report on the INNORES Project
November 12, 2022
Martin Kugler, Die Presse
Was vom Fortschritt übrig bleibt
Interview of Ulrike Felt by Xavier Forthuber
June 7, 2022
Ö1, Punkt Eins, Austrian Radio