Thu 12 June 2025
9:00-9:30 Doors open, registration and coffee
9:30-9:45 Opening words (Room: Valssaamo)
9:45-11:00 Keynote: Prof. Gay Hawkins: Ontographies of Waste (Room: Valssaamo)
11:15-12:45 Sessions 1, 2 and 3 (Rooms: Valssaamo & Kahvibaari working and meeting space 1 & 2)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Keynote: Prof. Steve Woolgar: Material Threat: ontology and accountability in matters of waste (Room: Valssaamo)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:15 Sessions 4 and 5 (Rooms: Valssaamo & Kahvibaari working and meeting space 1)
17:15-19:30 Exhibition opening (Room: Valssaamo)
19:30 Dinner (Restaurant Hima & sali [at Kaapelitehdas])
Fri 13 June 2025
9:30. Doors open
10:00-11:15 Keynote: Prof. Joshua Reno: Four or More Senses of Waste from Auschwitz: Object Lessons for Resisting Authoritarian Destruction (Room: Valssaamo)
11:30-13:00 Sessions 6, 7 and 8 (Rooms: Valssaamo & Kahvibaari working and meeting space 1 & 2)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Sessions 9 and 10 (Rooms: Valssaamo & Kahvibaari working and meeting space 1)
15:45-16:00 Closing words
Sessions
Session 1: TOXIC SOIL (Thu 12 June, 11:15-12:45; room: Valssaamo)
Lina Bonde: Waste as Ruin and Possibility: The Social and Material Life of a Scrapyard
Trine Brox : After waste: Anxieties beyond disposal in the Indian Himalayas
Taru Lehtokunnas: Transformativity and Persistence: Co-Becoming through the Memory-Work of Decay with Microbes and Insects
Chitra Sangtani: Risk, Morality and Fire: A View from Delhi’s Waste Frontiers
Session 2: TEMPORALITY AND DURABILITY I (Thu 12 June, 11:15-12:45; room: Working and meeting space 1)
Elisabeth Anstett: Discarded and recycled corpses in contemporary western funeral practices
Janna Jokela: The legacy of waste – a heritage futures perspective
Sonja Lampinen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen & Olli Pyyhtinen: Toxic Temporalities: Nuclear Waste and Geological Time
Marika Silvikko & Florian Abraham: On Ponds and Rocks: Excavating the Geo-Logics of Radioactive and Nuclear Waste Management Practices
Session 3: SOCIO-MATERIAL RELATIONS (Thu 12 June, 11:15-12:45; room: Working and meeting space 2)
Eliisa Kylkilahti, Lotta Ruippo, Sanna Sekki & Minna Autio: ”Packaging isn’t just waste”- Harnessing care for the recycling work of packaging materials
Malla Mattila, Martta Vänskä, Niina Mesiranta, Mari Ainasoja Mari & Elina Närvänen: Transformative practices in organising the recycling of hospital plastic waste
Alma Onali, Taru Peltola & Kati Pitkänen: Between and beyond convenience and harm: An empirical study on plastic bag relations
Karin Wagner: Trapped in Ghost Fishing Gear: Visual tropes of Seals and Human Saviours
Session 4: CE SYSTEMS (Thu 12 June, 15:45-17:15; room: Valssaamo)
Ion Fernández de las Heras, Blanca Callén & Cristina Cano: The limits of circular economy. A case study from mobile communication infrastructure waste
Maxence Mautray: From Rubbish to Resource: an Ethnographic Analysis of the Moral Economy of Reuse in a French Waste Collection Center
Helena Valve, Jani Salminen Jani & Annika Johansson: Making and keeping plastic waste intact
Lucy Wishart: Justifying Waste in Circular Transitions: A case study on the Scottish Deposit Return Scheme
Session 5: TEMPORALITY AND DURABILITY II (Thu 12 June, 15:45-17:15; room: Working and meeting space 1)
Staffan Appelgren: Suspended Transience: Making things not go to waste
Franck Cochoy: How waste-ability creates waste: sanitary masks as part of *ability struggles
Cláudio Filho: Wastecology: Art, Ecology, and the Afterlife of Matter
Fé Versteeg & Hilje van der Horst: Wasting Away: Politics of Transition in Waste-Fermentation Network
Session 6: WASTE AND THE MUNDANE (Fri 13 June, 11:30-13:00; room: Valssaamo)
Lenka Brunclikova: Navigating the intricacies of regulated and unregulated practices around plastic packaging in Malaysia
Bhavna Middha: Examining de-contamination practices through the lens of contaminated bins and the Container deposit scheme in Victoria, Australia
Ulla-Maija Sutinen: Household as a system of waste management: analysing waste flows
Patrik Zapata: Alternate infrastructures of care: restoring people’s abilities to care in a city of thresholds
Session 7: LAW AND POLICY (Fri 13 June, 11:30-13:00; room: Working and meeting space 1)
Katja De Vries, Sebastian Abrahamsson & Per Fors: Right to repair (R2R): the entanglements and volunteering practices at repair cafes.
Antti Kurko: Digital Waste – Excess from Our Digitalized Life
Akseli Tiensuu, Erkki-Jussi Nylén & Pekka Jokinen: Differentiating wastewater infrastructures in circular cities
Garance Thomas: What do waste objects have to say about property?
Session 8: URBAN SPACE (Fri 13 June, 11:30-13:00; room: Working and meeting space 2)
Marisa Ferreira: Reimagining the city. On Public art, Waste value, and Spatial justice
Bjørn Kristensen: Waste and Street Dog Agency in the Multispecies City of Cusco, Peru
Maria Raquel Passos Lima: Residual urbanism: modes of existence of waste becoming the city in Rio de Janeiro
Rohini Tyagi: Processes, Materiality and Lives of Waste: Politics of Urban Waste Discourse
Session 9: KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES (Fri 13 June, 14:15-15:45; room: Valssaamo)
Laura Beloff & Müge Yildiz: The Afterlives of Microscopes: Exploration of Waste as an Artifact
Eerika Jalasaho: Excesses – Artistic Research on Dirt Material
Heta Tarkkala & Aura Savolainen: Wastewater and its afterlife as data
Niina Uusitalo: Capturing styrofoam: Material and sensory recollections of waste
Session 10: ACTIVISM AND CITIZENSHIP (Fri 13 June, 14:15-15:45; room: Working and meeting space 1)
Blanca Callen & Anastasia Zisakou: Waste prevention by repair and reuse: A critical analysis of two grassroots initiatives in Barcelona
Ella Lepistö: Aestheticized Waste: The Politics of Litter in Social Media Activism
Teemu Loikkanen: Waste Citizenship in the Practical Implementation of the Circular Economy
Thomas Roberts: Tackling waste in a depoliticized world: The growing role of prefigurative politics