Speculative Energy Futures is a multi-year, collaborative, and interdisciplinary project on energy transition as a necessary response to address climate change. It brings artistic and humanities researchers together with science, social science, and policy experts to investigate the challenges of energy transition. Together, participants will produce a large-scale, evidence-based exhibition as well as a series of publications, bringing attention to the importance of arts and humanities perspectives on the social and cultural impacts of energy transition, informed by the latest research coming out of the IPCC, Future Energy Systems, Just Powers, Petrocultures, and other Energy Humanities and environmental organizations around the world. It takes its methodological cue from Immune Nations project, another collaborative, research-based, multi-year, and interdisciplinary) funded by the Research Council of Norway and exhibited at the UNAIDS building during the 2017 World Health Assembly.

Between now and 2023, participants in Speculative Energy Futures are developing self-generated groupings with other participants, researching a key issue related to feminist and decolonial energy transition, and developing an arts-based engagement with their chosen topic for a high profile exhibition. Artistic research and dissemination methods are well-suited to capturing dissenting opinions on controversial topics and envisioning new futures that, while based in evidence and research, speculate beyond what we understand to be currently possible.

In March 2018, Speculative Energy Futures launched at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Cities & Climate Change Conference and held its first national workshop immediately following the conference from 8-11 March 2018. Its second national meeting will take place June 1-7, 2019. For more information on Speculative Energy Futures, and to see a full list of our research partners, see the project website: https://www.justpowers.ca/projects/speculative-energy-futures/

Just Powers: Climate Change and Social Justice.

Sheena Wilson, Natalie Loveless, Sourayan Mookerjea, Angele Alook

Conference/Workshop

Speculative Energy Futures

Stories about this project:

Understanding how society will change as we move to renewable energy sources

Status

Theme

Principal Investigator

Co-Investigator

Graduate students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Highly Qualified Personnel

Alumni

Project Assistant

Faculties

Project Files

T04 P01 Poster 2017 Open House

T04 P01 BeierJ Poster 2018 Symposium

Just Powers: Climate Change and Social Justice.

Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency

Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency

Art and Climate Justice Action: Materializing the Anthropocene

Art and/in the Anthropocene: A Debate on Sustainability and Ecology

Art for Change: The Power of Art to Influence Social Change

Art, Ecology, Energy and Speculative Futures

Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form

Caring for the 21st Century [Keynote Speaker]: Energy Transition and Feminist Futures.” for The Mothernists II: Who Care’s for the 21st Century?

CoLAB Meeting: Diggin' In to the IPCC Special Report

CoLAB Meeting: Energy Imaginaries + The Perfect Storm: Energy Transition Game

CoLAB Meeting: Expanding the Infrastructural Imagination

CoLAB Meeting: Materializing Climate Change

CoLAB Meeting: ‘Sensing the Anthropocene’

CoLAB/IRS/Space & Culture Meeting: Energy Imaginaries

Deep Energy Literacy: Toward Feminist Energy Futures (Plenary Speech).

Energy Humanities, Just Powers + Energy Systems

Feminist Art, Activism, and the Anthropocene” for The Mothernists II: Who Care’s for the 21st Century

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life--Public Talk

Guest Lecture for Climate Futures and the Just Transition Class

LASERAlberta: Art, Climate, Energy, Activism

Listening as Ethic; Walking as Method: Daily Practice and Art/Life Intervention

Mutation and Care in the Anthropocene

On the Politics of Form: Art and/in the Anthropocene

Petrocultures Guest Lecture. Generic Energetic: Contemporary Popular Genres as Tools for Transition

Resisting Petrofeminisms: Toward More Just Feminist Futures

Sensing the Anthropocene: Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency

Sensing the Anthropocene: Daily Practice and Art/Life Intervention

Speculative Energy Futures Annual Team Meeting

Why is Energy Transition a Feminist Issue?

“Sustainability: Deep Energy Literacy.”

(Re)framing Big Data—S2E1

Against Purity—S1E2

Amateur Video & The Challenge for Change — S2E2

Chainsaw: Theory and Practice—S2E5

Choreographies of Collaboration—S2E3

Disposition, in Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space — S3E6

Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures

Energy Imaginaries—S1E5

In Catastrophic Times—S1E4

Indigenizing the Anthropocene—S1E1

Indigenous Women and Knowledge—S1E3

Infrastructure, Infra-politics — S3E1

Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance — S3E2

Materializing Climate Change—S2E6

Mutation and Care in the Anthropocene

On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else—S1E0

Performing Sovereignty—S2E4

Recording, "The Power of Art to Influence Social Change"

“Coal Power and the Sundarbans: Subaltern Resistance and Convergent Crises