Green Archiving: Imaginaries of Archival Futures

GREEN ARCHIVING: IMAGINARIES OF ARCHIVAL FUTURES
Annet Dekker (ed.)

320 pp.
Valiz, 2026
ISBN: 9789493246638

Green Archiving explores the intersection of archival practice and environmental sustainability, offering a radical reimagination of archives as ecological entities. It critiques conventional recordkeeping methods, which often perpetuate resource-intensive and preservationist paradigms, and introduces the concept of ‘green archiving’— a framework that integrates sustainable technologies, practices, and philosophies into the curation, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge. It draws on speculative theory, eco-criticism, software studies, decolonial and feminist studies, to propose new imaginaries for the future of archiving in the face of climate crisis. Through case studies, critical essays, interviews and speculative designs, Green Archiving fosters a dialogue that balances memory and preservation with ecological stewardship for future generations.

Green Archiving will be included in the ‘Making Public’ series that investigates ‘the public’, the civil domain where space, knowledge, values and commodities are shared.

Contributors (tbc): Kristina Andersen, Chiara Borognovo, Brian Castriota, Ofri Cnaani, Annet Dekker, Judith van der Elst, Flaminia Fortunado, Kristoffer Gansing, Olga Goriunova, Linda Hilfling, Aymeric Mansoux, Ekaterina Maslova, Nancy Mauro-Flude, George Oates, Asti Sherring, Marloes de Valk, Frouke Wiarda.