Cultivating the Futures Imaginary:
Imaginative Methods and Futures Literacies
Session 4 of 4
A Future for Futures
In this final 30-minute participatory session we will share the results of our creative process, along with thoughts, feelings, questions, and - if participants wish - a performance of the fictopoeitic future worlds that were created in the previous session. We will return again to the concept of futures literacies and share thoughts about the experience and what was evoked through their practice of fictopoeisis. Finally, we will engage a new activity— the participatory design of a futures imagining prompt that might provoke different shades of future futures imagining. This activity is based upon her recent doctoral research and will be the first time Rachel has tried it out with a group. We will experiment together and see how it goes!
Presenter:
Rachel Horst is literacy scholar and educator who recently completed her doctoral degree from the Department of Language and Literacy Education at The University of British Columbia. Her research focusses upon creative and arts-based digital literacies and future literacies pedagogies as conceptualized through a posthuman ontology of difference. Her work investigates the generative confluence of digital creation, writing-as-becoming, and creative futures for cultivating the imaginary. Informed by decolonial discourse, Rachel’s research praxis takes up creative methods that seek to map theoretically enriched pathways between literacies scholarship, systems thinking, and future literacies pedagogy. Rachel currently lives with her family in xwilkway (Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia). Before pursuing her doctoral degree she was a secondary school teacher, working in the remote Indigenous community of Bella Bella, BC, and at the alternative school on the traditional territory of the Shishalh peoples on the Sunshine Coast, BC. Her teaching practice continues to be informed by her work with youth outside of mainstream contexts, exploring creative technologies for sharing alternative stories of selves and futures in and for troubled times.
Cost: Free
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/Gd9YLwckZypxaJdj8
This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925