Welcome to Climaginaries
Climaginaries explores possible environmental futures through the creation of speculative situations. Across our projects we design immersive encounters—soundwalks, speculative museums, storytelling projects and participatory workshops—that allow people to step into possible futures and reflect on how societies might change in a warming and transforming planet.
The platform brings together researchers, artists and practitioners interested in how environmental futures are imagined, experienced and debated in public life.
How We Explore Environmental Futures
Climaginaries develops speculative situations that allow
people to encounter possible futures in different ways.
Living in the Future
Stories and media that explore everyday
life after environmental transition.
Remembering the Transition
Projects where the future looks
back at our present as history.
Encountering the Future in Place
Soundwalks and experiences where environmental
change is encountered in real landscapes.
Exploring Futures Together
Workshops and events where participants
collectively explore possible futures.
Explore our projects:
The Time of the Forest
An immersive soundwalk that explores the forest through different perspectives on time
The Walkscape Award
An improvised theater performance about how a city went car-free
Podcasts from the future
Soundscapesfrom a sustainable future
Travel Guides to post-fossil futures
Explore a future Skåne, Skellefteå and Notterdam
Beyond Dystopia
An evolution of Carbon Ruins in four Swedish regions
Chronoberg
A city where time is negotiated
We Live Here Too
Imagining cities for bats, moths, and wildflowers
Carbon Ruins
An exhibition of the fossil era
Farewell Falsterbo
A soundwalk from the future
Memories from the transition
A soundwalk from the future
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.