ENVS 19907 - Speculative Environmental Futures

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

Speculative Environmental Futures In this class, we will cultivate our abilities to imagine livable futures in light of the ecocidal and unjust present. How do we move from eco-anxiety and hopelessness to rigorous acts of collective imagination that lead to action? How do we begin, today, to build toward the worlds we wish to see in the future? Working to answer these questions, we will engage in exploratory exercises for individual and collective imagining as well as a rigorous study of speculative fiction and theory, historical and contemporary examples of prefigurative organizing, and regenerative design. Students should be prepared to read deeply across disciplines and perform speculative thought experiments that will culminate in both creative projects and concrete proposals for building resilient futures. [AH]