Becoming Aerosolar was a concept and series of aerosolar practices launched in the Summer of 2014 that borrowed tools from Museo Aero Solar but also extended beyond it into other interdisciplinary inquiries. A text published in the volume Art in the Anthropocene explains:

To become aerosolar is to imagine a metabolic and thermodynamic transformation of human societies’ relation with both the Earth and the Sun. It is an invitation to think of new ways to move and sense the circulation of energy. And, it is a scalable process to re-pattern atmospheric dwelling and politics through an open-source ecology of practices, models, data—and a sensitivity to the more-than-human world. (Saraceno, Engelmann and Szerszynski)

The project drew inspiration from the hypotheses of Nikolai Kardashev and Bronislaw Szerszynski in its proposal of a future ‘solar-cene’ in which societies would be liberated from Earth’s surface by harnessing the circulation of energy in the air. Taking shape in a range of projects, sculptures and collaborative writings, Becoming Aerosolar was further developed at the Institut für Architekturbezogene Kunst (IAK) at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where Tomás Saraceno served as director for two years, and where Ivana Franke, Natalija Miodragovic, Alan Prohm, Jol Thomson and I worked as lecturers. In my view, Becoming Aerosolar cannot be dissociated from the work of the three hundred undergraduate and graduate students who attended courses at IAK. The Becoming Aerosolar curriculum featured the theory of pneumatic architecture, aerosolar sculpture workshops, aero-geography, tensegrity modelling, and the invention of forms of care for IAK and its local environment. Students contributed ideas for aerosolar societies, honed prototypes for ‘cut-down mechanisms’ (devices to ‘land’ aerosolar sculptures during flight), drafted the first Manual for Becoming Aerosolar, produced work for international exhibitions, and significantly evolved the dialogue on aerosolar initiatives together with more experienced practitioners.

In 2015-2016 I collaborated with Tomás Saraceno, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Derek McCormack on several texts about Becoming Aerosolar.  The co-written works include:

"Becoming Aerosolar and the politics of elemental association" with Derek McCormack and Bronislaw Szerszynski in Tomás Saraceno: Becoming Aerosolar [Exhibition Catalogue] 21er Haus, Vienna.

"Becoming Aerosolar" with Tomás Saraceno and Bronislaw Szerszynski in "Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (ed. Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin), Open Humanities Press.

"A Manual for Becoming Aerosolar" with Tomás Saraceno, Jol Thomson and students in Becoming Aerosolar graduate seminar, Institut fur Architekturbezogene Kunst, Technical University of Braunschweig 

"Elemental Experiments" with Derek McCormack and Bronislaw Szerszynski, session at the Royal Geographic Society Conference, University of Exeter, September 2015