Please join us for a lecture by Lukáš Likavčan, Rachel Pearl and Stephanie Sherman from UAL Central Saint Martins on wearable technologies for climate adaptation.
Public Lecture: Lukáš Likavčan, Rachel Pearl & Stephanie Sherman
SHIFT
today
Earthsuits: Prototypes Prague
WHEN: Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6.30pm
WHERE: Room n. 115, Náměstí Jana Palacha
Earthsuits is a global R&D platform based at UAL Central Saint Martins that reimagines wearable technologies as shared infrastructures of human adaptation and augmentation on a changing planet Earth. It draws inspiration from the history of spacesuits, mobile architecture, disaster response systems, prosthetics, and other adjacent fields that treat clothing, garments, or personal accessories as tools with deep utility functions, as opposed to culturally coded aesthetic ornaments signaling affiliation to groups, identities, or social classes. In reality, what we call “fashion” today is an underexplored territory for scalable, practical technologies of climate adaptation and mitigation. Let’s imagine: how could wearable climate infrastructures generate functional alternative worlds of the here and now?
The lecture is part of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop organized by SHIFT in collaboration with the Studio of Fine Arts III.
About the speakers
Lukáš Likavčan is a philosopher focused on emerging technologies, ecology, and astronomy. In his work, he traces intertwined histories of scientific infrastructures, ideas, and cultures mobilized in the production of knowledge that informs human efforts to sustain planetary habitability. Lukáš is a researcher at the Antikythera program, Berggruen Institute, a philosophy of technology think tank, and at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He teaches at MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, and at MA Narrative Environments, UAL Central Saint Martins.
Rachel Pearl is an interdisciplinary researcher, designer, curator, and producer based in London. Her research spans the material and philosophical entanglements of ecology, technology, and society. She is the Research Manager of Antikythera and the Producer with Central Saint Martin’s MA Narrative Environments and CSM’s Digital Innovation Season.
Stephanie Sherman is a designer, strategist, writer, and producer working across technology and culture. I develop organizations, projects, and narratives that reprogram outmoded systems. She directs MA Narrative Environments, a two-year postgraduate course focused on speculative platform design based in the Spatial Practices Programme at Central Saint Martin’s, University of Arts London. She is the Strategy Director of Antikythera and the Production Director of Radio Espacio Estacion, a nomadic, translingual radio station hosting 24-hr marathon broadcasts about mobility & movement while on the move. She regularly collaborates with Autonomy, a London-based think tank on the future of work.
The lecture will be held in English.