Keynote, Prof. Sharon Stein, Climate Complexity, UBC & Co-Founder of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective (GTDF)

This keynote invites an inquiry about the fractured relations at the root of the climate crisis, and how we might begin to repair them. Grounded in the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective, it asks: What would it take for us to compost the inherited separations between human and more-than-human worlds that have led us to breach the Earth’s biophysical boundaries – and to threaten our own futures in the process? How might we move away from top-down, technical climate “solutions” and instead learn to coordinate responses informed by multiple forms of intelligence – human, more-than-human, and machine? And what meta-relational dispositions and capacities could enable us to meet the complexities and uncertainties of the climate crisis in ways that fulfil our intergenerational and interspecies responsibilities?

This event is pre-recorded. It can be accessed here.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an arts/research collective that uses this website as a workspace for collaborations around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.