Within the FLOWISION consortium we focus on the visibility of fossil and renewable energy, and waste as they traverse through society in Russia and Finland. By unfolding how these resource flows are made (in)visible in these contexts we open avenues to understand how they are part of the political. Visibility and visualization of resource flows, or the lack of it, tells us about how these commodities are being (de)politicized, and how they are being imagined as part of climate mitigation policies and practices and the broader environmental agenda...
The researchers, journalists and artists in the FLOWISION consortium contribute to the three realms of expertise: energy sector, civil society and media and journalism. The researchers are located at the Aleksanteri Institute of Russian and Eastern European Studies in the University of Helsinki and Centre of Science and Technology Studies in European University of St. Petersburg.