Found Footage from the Nuclear Protection National Parks Austria

with Ekat Osipova

Three seemingly unconnected facts: 1. We are destroying nature. 2. We do not know where to store our radioactive waste. 3. In Chernobyl, wildlife seems to be thriving. We have connected these three considerations in a Found Footage design fiction exploring a near-future of an Austria that has put its hope for an ecologically just and sustainable future into nuclear waste disposal sites turned national parks protected by radiation.

This report displays artefacts from the ongoing project and discusses our design process, insights and learnings around Found Footage as a design fiction method to pose critical questions about the emotional factors of technology futures.

You can find a full collection of the artefacts without the report on nuclearparks.tumblr.com! The project is ongoing, so we hope to add to it soon.