Agora #7: Laying the first stone of a field of practice
The 7th Agora (online) is a time to look back together at all that we have produced, shared and experienced since the beginning of the Collective Creative Practices for Transformation project. Agoras to have a taste of a (…)
Jen Rae: ‘We bring a First Nations approach to understanding the climate (…)
Project Information: Centre for Reworlding The Centre for Reworlding prepares future generations to mitigate against the impacts from the deepening climate crisis. Grounded in First Nations knowledge systems and protocols, (…)
Liz Miller: ‘The method of sharing a story depends on the social (…)
‘The method of sharing a story depends on the social context’ Liz Miller is a documentary maker, scholar, and professor interested in new approaches to community collaborations and documentary as a way to connect personal stories to larger social (…)
Jocelyn Ibarra: ‘This studio is a response to hopelessness about the (…)
Jocelyn Ibarra: ‘I started this studio as a response to hopelessness about the future, and proposed the artistic method as an answer to futures design’. Joss is the founder, showrunner, and design lead of The Time Travel Agency.
Collective Creative Practices for Transformation: The book!
We are proud to share with you our first publication about the Collective Creative practices for transformation: an emerging field of practice. Please share with us your thoughts !
Imaginisations #2 : Espaces
Les espaces sont révélateurs de façon de faire et de s’inscrire dans une époque. Ils sont également vecteurs de façon d’être, des usages qui en sont faits et des représentations qui s’en dégagent. Ils abritent une multitude (…)
“Imaginisations” Conference Cycle
Happening in French in Paris Quoi? Les conférences Imaginisations s’intéressent au pouvoir qu’ont les mots de nous opposer ou de nous rassembler, de faire surgir de nouvelles possibilités et d’en occulter d’autres. Ce (…)
Agora 5. The Things We Did Next: embracing the mess
Diving into 2029: a narrative performance ‘David, let’s take a deep breath together’, says Alex Kelly, climate and social justice artist, to begin this fifth Agora: ‘Time stamp: October the 6th, 2029.’ Without further ado, (…)
Sailing the archipelagos of collective practices
“To have a practice, you need to have a community of practice” (Anna Tiquia, All Tomorrows Futures). At the beginning of our research on Collective Creative Practices for Transformation, this affirmation justly (…)
Politicrafting
The political project of Collective Creative Practices Ever since the beginning of the “Collective Creative Practices for Transformation” project, its name has been debated. If “naming the thing is enough for its meaning to (…)
What do narratives want?
The “collective creative practices” we have been observing since the beginning of 2022 are, in their own way, part of the more general search for “new narratives” that could facilitate the ecological and social (…)
Collective creative practices for transformation: first lessons learned
Assuming we do need “new narratives” to change the world, especially in the face of climate change, are certain conditions necessary for these narratives to play an effective role in transforming reality? In 2020 and 2021, (…)
Collective Creative Practices for Transformation
This project is part of the Narratopias project Collective Creative Practices for Transformation is an open and collaborative research project that aims to gather practitioners, artists and researchers who participate in (…)
The Future is Now: Futures Literacy for Youth
“The Future is Now” aims to “Equip young people and the youth sector with futures literacy (tools, methods and practice) that allows them to imagine alternative futures and influence the present.” It (…)
Narratopias
Narratopias is a collaborative and open project to organize, on a global scale, a collective response to the recurring call for “new narratives”. An invitation to embark on a search for alternative, (…)
Discover U+’s project, and how to take part in them!
If you wish to know more about some amazing projects we are doing, and find out how you can be part of it, join one of our Open Zoom Calls: May 24, 17:30-19:00 CEST (French) - Hosted by Ketty Steward, science fiction writer, (…)