Rehearsing Future Worlds:

The Infrastructural Rehearsals Project will introduce a methodology of syncing between social realities and science fiction (Kodwo Eshun). We will share some approaches to abolition science fiction as counter mapping practice for community based research. The workshop will practice writing experiments, collective decision syncing with the aim to reworld the places and spaces we inhabit when faced with the violence of the present world.

With Helen V. Pritchard, Cristina Cochior, Cassandra Troyan and Femke Snelting.

To read before the workshop:

• Gelderloos, Peter (2022) The solutions are already here: Strategies for ecological revolution from below. Pluto Press. pages: Chapter 5: A Truly Different Future, pp. 173-189 (16 pages)
• Ed. Callum Copley. (2019) Reworlding: Ramallah, Short Science Fiction Stories from Palestine. Onomatopee pages: Introduction by Callum Copley, pp. 9-12; “Map 2.0” by Adele Jarrar, pp. 31-48

Additional Reading:

• Brown, adrienne maree; Imarisha Walidah, ed. (2015) Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. PAGES: “Evidence” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, pp. 33-42 & “Hollow” by Mia Mingus, pp. 109-122