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is an art historian, specialising in scientific imaginaries. She is the author of Voir l’invisible: Histoire visuelle du mouvement merveilleux-scientifique (2023), and her current research focuses on ...

From artificial trees to epic solar shields – a filmmaker crafts a bold vision of humanity’s future on an engineered Earth ...