A event on Wednesday 27th October. The event starts at 18:30.
Using “tools” from diverse perspectives such as speculative anthropology, science fiction, performance, environmental politics, social science, activism and philosophy, Invented Futures will lead you through a series of exercises, reflections and provocations to start writing your own futures.
Head to the Eventbrite link to secure your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invented-futures-lab-speculative-futuring-workshop-tickets-181109331887
Whether fiction, creative non-fiction, journalism or performance, our writing workshops aim to give you the tools to write experiments that take readers and audiences from what is to what if?
Imagination is a tool of possibility, so join fellow writers, activists, makers and everyone else in this speculative fiction writing workshop with Maria Leonard that uses writing as a tool for activism and for expanding alternative visions of the future in the present.
We will look at examples from writers such as Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and the latest research from the Invented Futures collective - from experimental physics, science narratives to design fiction and contemporary myths - to get you writing and reflecting.
Bring an open mind, your favourite piece of speculative fiction in any form, and a new vision for the future. Invented Futures will provide drinks and a portfolio of ideas, experiments and snippets from the latest research in future-making from the collective.
Invented Futures is a research platform that is building a response to dominant ways the future is made.
Based at Spike Island art studios, Bristol UK, Invented Futures has curated discussions at Bristol Technology Festival in 2019 and 2020; organised a discussion programme alongside researchers for the School of Activism 2.0 2021; co-hosted workshops online with Erasmus+ groups based in Berlin, Amsterdam and Ljubljana; and facilitated design sprints with young people as part of Zebera Design and Innovation.
We have collaborated with Bristol Digital Futures Institute (Bristol University); University College London; Birkbeck, University of London; and Spike Island Associates.
Entry requirements:
Head to the Eventbrite link to secure your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invented-futures-lab-speculative-futuring-workshop-tickets-181109331887
Whether fiction, creative non-fiction, journalism or performance, our writing workshops aim to give you the tools to write experiments that take readers and audiences from what is to what if?
Imagination is a tool of possibility, so join fellow writers, activists, makers and everyone else in this speculative fiction writing workshop with Maria Leonard that uses writing as a tool for activism and for expanding alternative visions of the future in the present.
We will look at examples from writers such as Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and the latest research from the Invented Futures collective - from experimental physics, science narratives to design fiction and contemporary myths - to get you writing and reflecting.
Bring an open mind, your favourite piece of speculative fiction in any form, and a new vision for the future. Invented Futures will provide drinks and a portfolio of ideas, experiments and snippets from the latest research in future-making from the collective.
Invented Futures is a research platform that is building a response to dominant ways the future is made.
Based at Spike Island art studios, Bristol UK, Invented Futures has curated discussions at Bristol Technology Festival in 2019 and 2020; organised a discussion programme alongside researchers for the School of Activism 2.0 2021; co-hosted workshops online with Erasmus+ groups based in Berlin, Amsterdam and Ljubljana; and facilitated design sprints with young people as part of Zebera Design and Innovation.
We have collaborated with Bristol Digital Futures Institute (Bristol University); University College London; Birkbeck, University of London; and Spike Island Associates.
Entry requirements:
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