Port Futures + Social Logistics looks at materials, environmental histories, and infrastructure across the southeastern United States, North Sea, and East Asia in relation to energy transition, climate, and labor internationally. The platform commissions, curates, and disseminates video testimonies grounded in port-city-hinterland geographies that connect circulation studies and struggles to planetary urban critique.

Within these conditions, we are compelled to consider such environments as responsive, networked, and mediated - operating in and as media - producing the conditions through which the world is perceived and acted upon. Our hope is that the platform will inspire thinking about public access and redress along common experiences and creative forms of research.

PFSL was co-founded in 2021 by Jan Derk Diekema, James Enos, Stephen Ramos, and Annie Simpson.

The project has received support form the Art Indeed Foundation, The University of Georgia, Harvard Graduate School of Design, & Port Journeys Network.

We welcome messages at info.sociallogistics@gmail.com

Stephen Ramos was a researcher and friend whose life leaves a sea of poetic and discursive reaches, tracing expansive connections across urban planning and design. We, along with a generation of students, friends, and family, cherish and carry forward the currents he set in motion.