ONGoing Activities

As the Network grows we invite you to become a climaginarian TOO.

We are in a crisis of imagination, as Amitav Ghosh so succinctly put it. The ongoing climate catastrophe has forced us to reconsider what personal and societal futures are possible. It is with despair we read the latest headlines declaring species extinction and meteorological absurdity. We want to explore the tools that exist to imagine the future afresh and invite you to join us!

Past Events and Finished projects

Storyworlds of Decarbonisation

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
9-17.30
ANNE (Alle nederlanders nieuwe Energie), Utrecht

For this workshop we invited modellers and fiction writers with experience in writing climate fiction to explore the differences in storytelling between model-based scenarios and literary fiction and how these could be combined and learn from each other. The workshop consisted of two parts. In part 1, the focus was on the differences in the ‘modes of storytelling’ between scenarios that are constructed with and for models and the stories that are narrated in fiction. In part 2, we experimented with how these modes of storytelling could be combined by means of a story building exercise.

Climate Imaginaries of Hope: Workshop at the Petrocultures Conference

SATURDAY, September 1, 2018
09.00-10.15
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

The Climaginaries project was presented in a panel discussion on the synergies and disjunctions between how different disciplines conceptualise the ways climate imaginaries contribute to post-fossil transitions. Climate imaginaries come in different shades and forms. In the workshop we focueds on those envisioning desirable lives after fossil fuels. What particular functions do these imaginaries of hope fulfill? And how can we develop a transdisciplinary vocabulary to enable new insights on how such imaginaries are narrated and effectively translated into climate efforts?