Cultivating the Futures Imaginary:
Imaginative Methods and Futures Literacies
Session 3 of 4
Fictopoeisis and Creative Futures Writing
In this 30-minute creative writing and imagining session, we will engage in a practice of what Rachel theorizes in her doctoral studies as fictopoeisis – or the creation of fictions to inquire into future worlds. The focus of fictopoeisis is exploration, experimentation, curious inquiry, and play in and with imagined future spaces. Participants will be introduced to a series of creative digital writing and imagining prompts that help spark the emergence of fictional peoples, technologies, and materialities to explore through creative and expressive writing. Participants will have time to write in a group context and share the surprising landscapes of their imaginary future worlds.
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