speculative energy futures

// multi-year, collaborative research-creation project, 2017-2023 // part of Just Powers, an interdisciplinary research cluster at the University of Alberta //

“Speculative Energy Futures is a collaborative, multi-year research-creation project that brings together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, policy makers, and social science and energy humanities researchers to investigate the challenges and potentials of energy transition through artistic means. Through collaborative work, Speculative Energy Futures participants will produce a series of art exhibitions, dynamic publications, and other artistic outputs that bring attention to the social and cultural impacts of energy transition.”

Learn more about Speculative Energy Futures here.

related roles + projects

Producer for the Just Powers Podcast (2017-2020) // The Just Powers Podcast features readings and discussions of scholarly work focused on the pressing energy and environmental issues of our times. Learn more.

Facilitator at After Oil School 2: SOLARITIES (May 2019) // After Oil School brings together experts in energy humanities from the University of Alberta and around the world to explore, critically and creatively, the social, cultural and political changes necessary to facilitate a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Learn more.

Exhibitions + Research Creation Outputs //

Illustrations by Mariah Barnaby-Norris (Kobot)