Michaela Büsse is a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Dresden at the chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change and Associated Investigator at the cluster of excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Between 2023-25 she is a fellow at Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. In her research she focuses on sociomaterial transformations in the context of speculative urbanism, climate change mitigation, and energy transition. Drawing on elemental anthropology and feminist science and technology studies, she investigates how design practices and technologies govern environments and define who and what is being rendered inhuman.