speculative storytelling as transformative practice: reimagining narratives of displacement

Co-Futures: Futures from the Margins, Podium, Oslo.

With Jane Pirone, Hala Malak, Cian Mcalone, Lauren Parater, and Shanice Costa.

 

This session focused on cultivating spaces for collaborative creativity, offering opportunities for participants to imagine and manifest artifacts and propositions as modes of speculative storytelling to promote social change. 

 

The event was facilitated by collaborators from the United Nations and by faculty from Parsons School of Design who are currently exploring how storytelling and speculative fabulation can act as world-building practices. The collaborative partnership engages art, storytelling, design, and the social sciences to address alternative approaches to thinking about displacement, asking difficult questions about the UN and the futures it shapes. 

 

Participants had the opportunity to not only engage in generative activities but to learn more about this collaboration through a gallery exhibition, and gather insights from Project Unsung, a speculative storytelling project that brought together creative collaborators from around the world to help reimagine the humanitarian sector and promote narrative change and foresight within the UN system.