Cultivating the Futures Imaginary:
Imaginative Methods and Futures Literacies
Session 2 of 4
Technology and the Futures Imaginary
In this 40-minute session, we will engage with a series of new media and artistic digital texts that model technologically saturated future worlds, exploring together the dangers, possibilities, and affordances of other-than-human futures. The focus in this session will be to inquire into ongoing developments in colonized/ing digital technologies and articulate pathways for creative and critical resistance that might move us towards more beneficial relationalities in and with our machines. Participants will explore and discuss their own affective responses to technologized futures and will leave the session with creative methods for collaborating with digital technologies to tell different stories of possibility.
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
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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