VIDEO TESTIMONIES, PORT CITY HINTERLAND GEOGRAPHIES
Artists: Several across the world
Autumn 2025 untill Spring 2026

A Port Journey’s collaboration between the Art Indeed Foundation, The University of Georgia, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Hyper Cultural Passengers
PFSL was co-founded in 2021 by Jan Derk Diekema, James Enos, Stephen Ramos, and Annie Simpson

Port Futures and Social Logistics
Port Futures and Social Logistics (PFSL) is a platform examining materials, environmental histories, and infrastructure across the world, exploring how energy transition, climate, and labor are reshaping these regions and their global connections.

Through commissioned and curated video testimonies, PFSL looks at port cities and surrounding territories as networked, living environments where global forces are felt locally. The platform connects circulation studies and struggles to broader questions of planetary urban critique, bringing together creative research and shared experience to open up thinking about public access and common ground.

Pre-selected artists, urbanists, and scientists are invited to contribute to an ongoing collection of relevant works and projects; a growing database of memory and imagination that captures how our world could, will, or should change. The collection is presented as an international Open Institute of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.

PFSL #02
Building on the momentum of PFSL#01, this event will include new locationally-grounded short-videos about the cultural, ecological, and logistical dimensions of ports, rivers, wetlands, and the sea in shaping global circulation and contemporary environments.  

The aim of PFSL#02 is to invite new voices into an ongoing dialogue about how the cultural, ecological, and logistical dimensions of circulation, sensing, and global flows are being transformed, whether through environmental urgencies, artistic research, or new technologies for understanding movement and presence. 

PFSL#02 will travel during late 2025 through early 2026 to venues including the Audio Foundation (Auckland, NZ), Zou-No-Hana Terrace (Yokohama, JP), HyCp Veddel (Hamburg, DE), WEP (Groningen, NL), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA), and ATHICA (Athens, GA). 

Port Futures and Social Logistics is organized by an international team of artists, urbanists, and researchers from the Port Journeys and Hyper Cultural Passengers networks. The platform organizes public programming, develops and disseminates videos from artists and researchers, and hosts a growing archive of commissioned work. We are dedicated to fostering dialogue and collaboration across disciplines and geographies, with an emphasis on experimental approaches to art, urbanism, and the planetary logistics of energy and material exchange.

PFSL #02

Collaborating artist for PFSL #02:
Mickey Boyd (US)
Torsten Bruch (DE)
Koos Buist (NL)
Marin Carr Quimet (US)
Xin Cheng (CN)
Jan Derk Diekema (NL)
James Enos (US)
Samuel Horgan (US)
Matt Kaelin (US)
Joe Kennedy (US)
Forest Kelley (US)
Michael Kress (DE)
Sophia Leitenmayer (DE)
Chuck Miller (US)
Michael Mullin (US)
Andrea Ngan (US)
Vijay Rajkumar (US)
Miku Sato (JP)
Tom Schram (US)
Annie Simpson (US)
Nao Uda (TW/JP)
Chrisdian Wittenburg (DE)