I've been imaging alternative futures in a workshop that's part of an extraordinary online international conference The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice.
The collaborative workshop task is to imagine the life of a character who is a second generation descendant living on Earth in 2080.
My contribution has been informed by my experience in other workshops/events at this conference. For example in the opening 'acknowledgement of country' Ruth Langford spoke of country as the seen and unseen, the subtle and the multidimensional.
Bayo Akomolafe in A Cartography of Exile spoke of post activism, transfabulation and the importance of offering stories that are alternative to mainstream.
Daniel Floor in Breathing With the Dead spoke of the importance of the voices of the ancestors both human and non-human.
Will See and Iyafalola Omobola in Empowering the People spoke of the importance of examining individualism, materialism and the spiritual.
My contribution has also been strongly influenced by my recent participation in an Exo Studies Master Course with USA academic Sean Esbjörn-Hargens which examined the wilds of UFOs and anomalous phenomenon in the multidimensional universe within a meta-disciplinary framework.
Needless to say I'm letting my imagination roam freely in the wilds.
And yet there is so much more...
Exciting times!
