Projects

Climaginaries develops projects that explore possible environmental futures through creative and immersive methods.

Across exhibitions, soundwalks, storytelling projects and participatory workshops, we create speculative situations where people can encounter possible futures and reflect on how societies might live, adapt and transform on a changing planet.

Each project experiments with different ways of making environmental futures tangible and discussable. Some place participants inside everyday life in a post-fossil future. Others invite us to look back at our present from a future perspective, experience environmental change in real landscapes, or collectively explore alternative pathways for societal transformation.

Over time these experiments have become a recognisable way of working — bringing together research, artistic practice and public engagement to explore environmental futures.

Many of our projects are developed in collaboration with universities, museums, municipalities, cultural institutions and civil society organisations.

If you are interested in developing a project with us, we would be happy to hear from you.

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?