FES Funded ProjectsOutputs
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| Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate JusticeFrom 7-18 November 2022 Contextual Studies welcomed sixteen members of the Speculative Energy Futures (SEF) team to the University of St. Gallen as SQUARE’s inaugural artists-in-residence (three members were virtual, the remainder were in-person). Visiting Professor and SEF Principal Investigator Dr. Sheena Wilson led a two-week intensive course titled “Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Justice,” taught with project co-lead Dr. Natalie Loveless and featuring lectures, seminar discussions, workshops, and guest-presentations by thirteen SEF team members. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Hartlieb-Power, J., "Ruth Beer ", "Patrick Mahon ", Mookerjea, S., "Janice Makokis ", "Kurtis McAdam ", "Tsema Igharas ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Evan Davies ", "Sean Caulfield ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Lisa Moore ", "Scott Smallwood " | | Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)From 7-18 November 2022 Contextual Studies welcomed sixteen members of the Speculative Energy Futures (SEF) team to the University of St. Gallen as SQUARE’s inaugural artists-in-residence (three members were virtual, the remainder were in-person). Visiting Professor and SEF Principal Investigator Dr. Sheena Wilson led a two-week intensive course titled “Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Justice,” taught with project co-lead Dr. Natalie Loveless and featuring lectures, seminar discussions, workshops, and guest-presentations by thirteen SEF team members.
During the two-week course and residency at SQUARE, SEF animated an interactive pop-up exhibition "Unpacking Energy Transition (SEF’s FluxKit Beta Tests)." Presented throughout SQUARE’s atrium, "Unpacking Energy Transition" provided students, faculty, and community members with an opportunity to engage with the FluxKit, a ‘toolbox’ developed through SEF’s collaborative process that is intended to inspire participants to think differently about energy transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | | | Mobilizing the FluxKit for Energy Transition: Research-creation in times of polycrisesABSTRACT:
Living, working, and conducting research on the ‘oil rich’ lands of Turtle Island (colonially known as Canada)—where pro-extraction propaganda abounds and climate crises grow more acute with each passing season—energy transition and climate justice must necessarily be intersectional and decolonial. This panel and interactive workshop session will focus on Speculative Energy Futures (SEF), a multi-year (2017-2025), interdisciplinary project that has brought together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, social science and energy humanities researchers, Indigenous legal experts, and Indigenous knowledge keepers from across Turtle Island. Together, this team has examined the climate crisis from manifold perspectives, using scholarly inquiry, arts-based and creative process, as well as Indigenous spirit and ceremony to bring attention to the social and cultural dimensions of a just energy transition. Now, as the active research phase of the project ends, the afterlife of SEF will continue as the FluxKit for Energy Transition (2024), a mobile, research-creation ‘tool kit’ and set of calls to action that uses art to inform climate justice now and into the future.
Justine Kohleal will first theoretically and methodologically contextualize the FluxKit, which has been designed for use in art, educational, policy, and community action spaces, before activating various aspects of the kit for conference goers. Having the FluxKit onsite will not only enable the presenters to explore how art can be used to break down barriers regarding decolonial and socially just climate transitions, it will also prompt attendees to imagine how the FluxKit might be conceptually adapted to their own spheres of influence. Their panel thus highlights the role creative practices play in developing climate imaginaries that lay beyond our techno-bureaucratic fantasies, and will generate dialogue across deeply entrenched divides born of the overlay of petroculture on stolen Indigenous lands.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-11-11 | | | Mobilizing the FluxKit for Energy Transition: Curating Research-creation in times of polycrisesABSTRACT:
This workshop session will focus on the FluxKit for Energy Transition (2025), a research-creation output from Speculative Energy Futures (SEF), a multi-year (2017-2025), interdisciplinary project that has brought together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, social science and energy humanities researchers, policy experts, Indigenous legal experts, and Indigenous knowledge keepers from across Turtle Island. Together, this team has examined the climate crisis from manifold perspectives, using scholarly inquiry, arts-based and creative process, as well as Indigenous spirit and ceremony to bring attention to the social and cultural dimensions of a just energy transition. As the active research phase of the project ends, the afterlife of SEF will continue as the FluxKit, a mobile, research-creation ‘tool kit’ and set of calls to action that uses art to inform climate justice now and into the future.
Justine Kohleal will have the FluxKit on hand, and will first provide a brief overview of its theoretical and methodological underpinnings before delving into her experience curating the FluxKit in a non-museum context: as a pop-up exhibition at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022). Kohleal considers how the FluxKit troubles ‘normative’ curatorial and display strategies, positioning curatorial practice as a form of research-creation in which curatorial ‘care’ is expanded to include social relations as well as the more traditional art object. The FluxKit thus highlights how curatorial practice when understood as a form of research-creation helps foster spaces of collaboration and co-inquiry.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2025-03-28 | |
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