Welcome to Climaginaries
Climaginaries is a platform, providing space to explore innovative and creative ways of envisioning and experiencing post-fossil worlds and ways to get there. While transitions to post-fossil futures are currently imagined through a range of different means, from emission trajectories and energy scenarios to long-term climate policy strategies and corporate ‘missions’ - such imaginaries have largely failed to present transitions in which people and organisations can grasp their own relevance in making climate transformations happen. The Climaginaries network, a bunch of scholars, artists and others, contribute to the creation of other types of climate imaginaries and new knowledge on how stories of climate futures circulate, translate and resonate. We aim to leave participants with a new sense of the features that make climate change matter socially and culturally. Have a look at our ongoing projects, and let us know if you want to join our network!
Ongoing Projects
Beyond Dystopia
An evolution of Carbon Ruins in four Swedish regions
Travel Guides to post-fossil futures
Explore Skåne, Skellefteå and Notterdam!
Memories from the transition
A soundwalk from the future
Farewell Falsterbo
Soundwalk set in coastal Skåne
Carbon Ruins
An Exhibition of the Fossil Era
Our networks
The Climaginaries team run three organisational arrangements convening day-to-day activates across local settings. These arrangements bring together scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines with agents of change from within the realms of policy, business, the arts, cultural institutions and social movements.
Narrating Climate Futures
At Lund University, the collaborative initiative Narrating Climate Futures is convening research projects and events (e.g. workshops, seminars and reading groups) exploring alternative futures in a climate changed world.
Urban Futures Studio
At Utrecht University, the transdisciplinary research institute Urban Futures Studio explores positive urban futures through empirical research and innovative experiments, such as immersive installations and art projects.
Petrocultures
Petrocultures is a transatlantic research cluster supporting and producing research on the social, cultural and political implications of oil and energy use on societies and communities all around the world.
Climaginares on twitter
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Swedish Radio program @Klotet joined us for a session of our soundwalk #FarewellFalsterbo during #Kustmötet! They w… https://t.co/QjxI0pkZSq -
RT @ludwig_bs: Igår hade vi äran att gästa Kustmötet, arrat av @geotekniska @vellingekommun för att visa vår ljudvandring… https://t.co/pUC3ip1Yqo
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A new (very mobile) edition of #CarbonRuins—our museum of the Fossil Era—is being built inside this traveling trunk… https://t.co/Wpme3Gp2S7