Reimagining Anthropocene Futures Making Session I: Posthuman Landscapes

About the event:
Speculative Worlds Research Collective and UCL Anthropocene presents Reimagining Anthropocene Futures Through Speculative Making and Thinking

Reimagining Anthropocene Futures aims to explore the existential questions of what it means to be human. In a series of afternoon making sessions, we take a hands-on approach to thinking about the Anthropocene through drawing and collage.

In the first of two sessions, Posthuman Landscapes, we invite participants to make material speculative visions of resistance and hope in the wake of the Anthropocene. We invite researchers from across disciplines to participate in intimate making sessions each of which begins with a brief 10-minute prompt for conversation followed by two hours of creating. The ethos of the sessions is based on using what already exists to re-form existing materials, technologies, and knowledge systems.

This session investigates the ways terrestrial landscapes are vulnerable to environmental collapse and exploitation as well as spaces of resistance. It begins with a 10-minute provocation by postcolonial landscape researcher Caterina Liberace followed by a 90-minute making session. We then end with a short discussion and documentation of artefacts for presenting at the final evening event.