Richy Srirachanikorn (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Social and Cultural Analysis program.
Rather than studying nostalgia as a historical concept or as a backwards-looking emotion, Richy looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was, but the way it could have been. Can we remind ourselves of the futures we had hoped for, but never came to be, in the past? What do these “lost futures” mean for the present?
Richy is a founding member of the Nostagain Network, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. Founded at the Milieux Institute in 2022, the network meets annually at the 4TH SPACE for its symposia and research-creation expo.
