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📡 EURO—VISION 🛰 the podcast.
A series of weekly podcasts that compile conversations with activists, scholars, fisherpeople and artists, hosted by FRAUD, around the politics of extraction, migration and international agreements that are affecting communities and ecologies on a global scale and that perpetuate European colonial legacies.

Speakers include:
📢  Prof. Adekeye Adebajo, Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
📢  Dr Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare, Artist, Architect and Independent Scholar based in Accra, Ghana.
📢  Dr Nishat Awan, Artist and Architect, Principal Investigator of Topological Atlas, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
📢  Prof. Liam Campling, International Business and Development, School of Business and Management of Queen Mary, University of London, England.
📢  Prof. Peo Hansen, Political Science, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.
📢  Prof. Stefan Jonsson, Ethnic Studies, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.
📢  Dr Pierre Josso, senior geologist and geochemist at the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Deputy Director of the UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC).
📢  Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla, development economist at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Dakar, Sénégal.
📢  Dr Jennifer Telesca, Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. 

FRAUD is an undisciplinary pack (Audrey Samson, Françîcco Gayardo, Gris Perla Amor, & Jefa Papi Chulo)
Original music by Frédéric Laurier
Sound editing by Kitty Turner
Images by Francisca Roseiro

EURO—VISION is an art-led enquiry that explores the extractivist gaze of European institutions and their policies. The relationship between international relations, trade, economic policy and military operations come into focus through the lens of 🇪🇺  🪨 Critical Raw Materials 🇪🇺 ⚒️ In 2008, the European Commission adopted the Critical Raw Materials Initiative, which defined a strategy for accessing resources viewed as imperative to the EU’s subsistence (then including the UK) 📘 📄 Resource criticality is measured according to supply risk and economic importance 📊 📈  Policies are thus drawn up to ensure the continued availability of materials deemed critical. Such policies have led to agreements guiding climate injustice and geological exhaustion of the Global South 🌎🌍🌏 The current list, revised in 2024, includes 30 materials, including Cobalt ⚙️  Rubber 🌳 Phosphate 🪨 and the newly added Lithium 🔋 and Titanium 🦾 EURO—VISION focuses on the inscriptive operations of such initiatives, such as the establishment of Free Trade Zones 📦 FTZs 📦, fisheries partnerships agreements 📄 FPAs📄, and de-risking investment tools like public-private partnerships 🔖 PPPs 🔖

This public programme has been supported by the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Council England, Acción Cultural Española, the Flanders State of the Art, and the
British Academy through the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant Scheme.

This project originated as a collaboration between King's College London's Department of Digital Humanities and artist duo FRAUD, brokered and supported by the Cultural Institute at King’s in partnership with Somerset House Studios.