Alternative Futures – The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Drammensveien 78, Oslo, Norway

As we face an increasing set of intertwined crises—from climate change to economic, social, and political upheaval across the world—is there a need for new imaginations of alternative futures?

Språk og stillhet Hannah Gibson og Ida Hadjivayanis

Litteraturhuset , Norway

Av de 54 landene i Afrika er engelsk offisielt språk i 27, mens 21 land har fransk som offisielt språk. De aller færreste har likevel et av de tidligere kolonispråkene som morsmål. Konsekvensen er at mange får dårligere muligheter både i et utdanningssystem og jobbmarked basert på et språk de ikke behersker til fulle, og […]

Beyond Barcode: Exhibition Opening

Interkulturelt Museum Tøyenbekken 5, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Exhibition Opening Beyond Barcode: Experiments in Radical Futures More details TBA  

Chiara Cigarini: Tales of (technological) anomalies: Chinese SF’s re-enchantment

Online

Tales of (technological) anomalies: Chinese SF's re-enchantment Dr. Chiara Cigarini is a lecturer in Chinese Studies, a translator, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She received her PhD at Beijing Normal University, with a project focused on contemporary Chinese SF. In China, she collaborates w/the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination […]

CoFUTURES Conference 2023: Community Speculations and Technopolitics

Online

CoFUTURES 2023: “Community Speculations and Technopolitics” is dedicated to ideas of community: How and why do communities come together, enact, and utilize speculative methods to rethink the world? What kinds of technologies and what kinds of politics come together to allow or necessitate the formation of communities? In the last two decades, Future-oriented movements and communities […]

CoFutures Literacy Workshop (Iceland)

Bifrost University , Iceland

The inaugural workshop of the ERC Proof of Concept project CoFutures Literacy. Organized at Bifröst University, Iceland, along with expeditions to various various research sites in Iceland.   CoFutures Literacy is financed by the European Research Council under the Proof of Concept Scheme (Grant No. 101113215).

Generative Encounters (Berlin)

sumac.space , Germany

Three day science fiction and futures training workshop organized by Sumac.Space: Art and Practices of the Middle East, as part of the Generative Encounters Festival during Berlin Art Week. Workshop instructor: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay.

The Syncopators (CODA Oslo International Dance Festival)

Interkulturelt Museum Tøyenbekken 5, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Conversation between Ingri Fiksdal and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. -- Event Description: The Syncopators Olafiagangen (Outdoors) 19. October - Kl 16.00 Conversation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Ingri Fiksdal at the Intercultural Museum in Tøyenbekken 5 after the dance performance on Thursday, October 19th. The conversation starts at 6 PM.“This conversation will address issues of temporality in relation […]