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#futures

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Vural Özdemir

#queerecologies #kuirekoloji

Doğayı kuir teoriyle düşünmek anlamak; thinking and sense-making in nature through the lens of queer theory

Everyone is welcome here 🖤 says the 9-legged octopus 🎈
The axolotl, seahorse, sea turtle, catfish, snail and others join in the queer chorus and cheer happily thereafter.

#futures #queertheory #planetearth #ecosystems #ecology

Living with rhythms of the day, and within planetary boundaries in solidarity with all life and things animate and inanimate.

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Artun

Temporality 2/2

Temporality is often overlooked in #science, #health, #socialtheory and #futures work

“Wildflower” is the 5th track from the new album by #BillieEilish released on May 17, 2024 (Darkroom & Interscope Records). The album is understated and subtle in the bold and effervescent world of pop, melodies flow beautifully and tell stories on temporality - recursive possibilities, materialities and subjectivities of time where the past is reproduced in a long now but never the same way.

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slwr

Out now the third and final installment of my essay on late futurism for Hotpot. Among the topics covered: the parable of the idea of “radical imagination” (via Max Haiven), the politicization of William Morris, Federico Campagna's prophetic culture. The ultimate message: be wary of the hallucinations of the professional-visionary class, whose ranks seem to unceasingly multiply.

mailchi.mp/efcb109edd75/hotpot

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#design#futures
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Tomás Criado

We warmly invite you to the "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions" workshop, organized by CareNet

March 31 - April 1, 2025 in Barcelona @ Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(on site)

Free registration needed

+info: symposium.uoc.edu/131218/progr

Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaWorkshop: "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions"IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group is pleased to invite you to the Workshop «Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions».   What is this workshop about?   We aim to create an interdisciplinary space for exchange and reflection on the role of the future in research on ageing, climate crisis, and digitalization. These three domains are deeply shaped by imaginaries, narratives, and prospective practices in which the futures of modern societies are constantly negotiated and contested.   Across these research fields, we observe a recurring invocation of potential futures – futures that have not yet materialized and remain uncertain, but still, are already shaping the present. These futures often appear in dystopian terms, as threats and risks: ageing, framed as a “demographic bomb” or “grey tsunami” that will overwhelm healthcare and social systems; a world becoming increasingly uninhabitable and unequal due to global warming and extreme weather; and the strangeness of artificial intelligence, as the boundaries between truth and falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, get blurred.   Public policy frames these futures as “challenges”, threats that are also presented as opportunities. They imply an obligation to transform the present in preparation for the future. Anticipating these futures acts as a call to action in the present, shaping life in advance and directing it toward specific horizons. For this reason, these “challenges” are often linked to various transitions –demographic, eco-social and digital– that require the continuous production of new knowledge and innovations.   To mitigate the so-called “demographic bomb”, policies on healthy ageing, ageing biomedicine, and gerontechnology seek to build a future in which people live longer without falling ill, maintain their independence, and defy the effects of ageing. To reconcile the climate crisis with capitalist progress, new technological solutions are emerging: space colonization, geoengineering, urban adaptation, sustainable infrastructures, green energy. Responding to the risk of losing the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, between knowing and not knowing, new initiatives are being developed to promote responsible, ethical and inclusive artificial intelligence.   All of this shows how the future, far from being settled, is an object of contestation. We are concerned with how futures are not only imagined, anticipated, and enacted, but also cancelled, ignored, destroyed, and even colonized.   A space for reflection and practice   In this workshop, we invite scholars working in these three areas to explore questions such as: What futures guide research on ageing, climate change, and digitization? To whom do these futures belong? Who is empowered to imagine, to narrate, and to generate future-oriented practices-and who is not? Which futures prevail? Which are silenced? In what ways are futures being brought into the present and presents brought into the future? By what means, by what practices, by what methods? What are the effects of power that their anticipation generates, and on whom?   We do not wish to approach these questions solely through theoretical reflection or through the empirical analysis of practices and narratives of the future — although both of these remain essential. Rather, we seek to foster an exchange of practices, methods, and techniques that enable us to think, analyse, transform, reimagine, and reconstruct futures. Thus, this is an invitation to explore the potential of participatory methods, speculative design, arts-based methodologies (visual, performative, etc.), and game-based approaches, among others. We want to create a space not only for analysing futures, but also for experimenting with and constructing new ways of imagining and inhabiting futures.
#sts#futures#methdos
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Jazmine Isa Qureshi (They/She)

grown and nurtured here. It is entirely necessary to our regenerated futures. Because without it we simply recycle systems that choke our ecosystems and our selves.

I will be releasing more information on the other talks and workshops I've been doing on Queering Ecologies, and the attached threads mentioned, soon as I organise myself a bit! See you all soon!

#Queering#Ecology#Nature
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Alberto Cottica

"Over a series of 10 sessions, 108 organisations took part, collectively naming 1100 organisations as alternative future practitioners operating in pockets across the UK."

1,100? In a single, relatively small country?

How many of you are there, trying to build a better future?

medium.com/onioncollective/res

#futures
#economics

OnionCollective · Researching Hope for Alternative Futures - OnionCollective - MediumBy Jessica Prendergrast
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maitiú ó móráin 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

Have you commissioned or participated in, or otherwise encountered, speculative design futuring work (e.g. #DesignFiction) in a technology firm?

Seeking *voluntary* participants for an MSc (Master of Science) research project investigating non-designers’ experiences of speculative design futuring methods in #technology #research and #innovation, and perspectives on the benefits, impact and value of these methods.

The purpose of the research is to investigate research gaps that exist on:
1) non-designers’ evaluation of benefits, impact and value of speculative design futuring work, and
2) conditions that affect translation of speculative work into strategic impact.

Participation by interview. Full confidentiality assured throughout.
Summary of final dissertation will be shared with participants.
Referrals very welcome – thank you.
Contact: via DM or email matthew.moran@open.ac.uk

#ExperientialFutures
#SpeculativeDesign
#DesignFuturing
#Worldbuilding
#DesignFiction
#Backcasting
#Futures

Picture: call for research participants, seeking perspectives of non-designers on speculative design futuring methods in technology research and innovation, and their impact and value.

Picture: call for research participants, seeking perspectives of non-designers on speculative design futuring methods in technology research and innovation, and their impact and value.
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