Data Availability Statement for "Spaceships and Poetry"

The materials provided as source data come from the activities of the ETHOS Lab at the IT University of Copenhagen, in the period 2017-2018. They constitute chapbook publications, posters, and a video documenting an installation in the university. We consider them valuable for STS because they show the aesthetic, informal and creative ways that questions about technology can be raised within technical institutions. We chose to include them to illustrate and substantiate our points in the article about ‘enlivening’. We think they might be interest to STS-ers in technical environments who might not feel they can draw on the arts and humanities as a medium through which to bring STS questions to the fore. We think posters are a fascinating artifact of activity and genre to be analysed, and our own posters are created in response to a predominantly consultancy oriented poster-scape. We would strongly encourage others to take up the method of erasure poetry on other forms of documents relevant to their own and their students’ projects – we would also love to hear about these experiments through the STS infrastructure.

The national context (Denmark) of these artifacts matters because of the resources available for design (the chapbook), and the funding regime that supports the Lab having a Manager whose labour – in the form of booking rooms, sending out invitations, holding and running meetings, coordinating with the Lab Managers, and setting activities in motion – was foundational to the work that is reported here. At the time these events took place, the Lab managers were Marie Blønd and Simy Kaur Gahoonia. The co-heads of Lab were Marisa Cohn and Rachel Douglas-Jones.