Beyond Net-Zero: Assessing and Extending Social and Environmental Understandings of Wind Power

With Ben Coles & Matt Wilde

Adopting a multi-disciplinary and multi-sited approach, this project examines the material, socio-economic and ethical practices that constitute wind energy, and interrogates them for their spatially disparate impacts on the places and populations that are integral to its production. Specifically, this project traces the metals – copper, steel, rare earths – and materials (i.e. concrete) that comprise the materiality of wind turbines, as well as the financial actors and institutions that invest in and profit from Net-Zero, in order to make the largely obscured spaces and relations of wind energy legible.