Climaginaries

Climaginaries started out as a three-year research project initiated in September 2018, financed through the Swedish research council FORMAS. Scholars from Lund, Utrecht, Warwick and Durham Universities were involved. The overarching aim of the research project was advance the understanding of imaginaries as means through which to catalyse the forms of political, economic, and social responses required for transitioning to a post-fossil society. Through different techniques of imagination, from modelling and scenario techniques to experimentations, visions of societal transformation and cultural representations (e.g. literature, film, art), we explored the transformative capacity of imaginaries; how compelling narratives are told, and how they can shape and enable efforts to confront climate change.

Since then, more people have gotten involved and together with international scholars, artists and practitioners we are now building a larger network to explore post-fossil futures. Climaginaries is also a Sweden-registered association with organisation number 802537-0837.