Conferences
2026 - April 27-29
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Imagining Space Otherwise: Critical perspectives from the arts on space exploration
Imagining Space Otherwise is an international working group focused on the arts' role in shaping outer space's ethics, politics, and cultural imaginaries. Our goal is to produce an arts-centred and science-informed space humanities scholarship that directly contributes to the formation of extraterrestrial epistemologies—modes of knowing that confront the planetary and interplanetary consequences of space exploration. Through public programming, artistic partnerships, and cross-disciplinary scholarship, this work benefits global audiences, especially those currently marginalised in space discourse, by advancing inclusive, critical, and culturally grounded approaches to shaping our planetary and interplanetary futures. Full text available here
2025 - September 24- October 3
Cosmic New Materialisms
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2025 - May 26-28
ASCA Workshop 2025: Re-Imagining Universality in the Pluriverse
The annual ASCA workshop will take place this year from May 26-28, where 50+ participants will share their work in relation to the conference theme Re-Imagining Universality in the Pluriverse. This workshop asks if it is possible to establish a new vision of universality through pluriversality. Can diverse epistemologies be recognised and honoured while also potentially revealing glimpses of universality that can contribute to a sense of shared space and time necessary to address the needs of the globalised present? During this event, I presented a workshop exploring the plurivesal nature of mutations titled: Peloric Flower.
PELORIC FLOWER: Re-imagining interspecies-ecological pluriversal futures
Abstract: This practice-based workshop invites participants to engage in speculative world-building via creative visual storytelling and the exploration of biological processes of mutation and transformation. "Peloria" is the Greek word for monster, and a peloric flower is a plant mutation lasting a single growing season, usually transforming flowers from having bilateral to radial symmetry. Other mutations we will explore include plant galls and fasciations, which provide rare bursts of abnormal growth in stems and flowers, much like peloria offers a sudden abundance of nectar, pollen, and a plethora of food sources and habitats for multiple organisms. Mutations occur for multiple reasons in response to species-environment exchanges, including environmental stresses and symbiosis-parasitism interactions. These mutational processes, often pathologised in Western Enlightenment and modernist scientific narratives, are reframed as embodied processes of resistance that critique Eurocentric notions of universality. With the ecological destruction and political challenges of the capitalocene, how can the ‘mutant’ embody and enact a plural and emancipatory process of becoming?
This workshop re-imagines mutation and transformation to challenge fixed notions of species and identity via creative visual storytelling and illustrated vignettes used to map, collage, and envision alternative futures that decenter human affect and reframe disability, ‘unnaturalness’ and disease. The relationality and multiplicity of our resulting visions will nurture insights into the ways in which our own mutated subjectivity is both emancipatory and formed by molecular flows that connect us to ecology (and act beyond us). Subsequent discussion will explore what this means in relational, ecological and cultural terms, exploring how posthumanist discourse intersects with decolonial and pluriversal perspectives to reshape and diversify concepts of organisms' intra-action imminence with environment.
The workshop was structured around three interwoven activities:
- Cartographies of mutation and pluriversal becoming– Participants create collective maps that challenge dominant imaginaries of biology and health, repositioning knowledge from diverse perspectives.
- Collage and assemblage of alternative futures – Using found and drawn images, participants re-construct speculative fabulated bodies that relocate and reconstruct how mutation can resist the devastation of our era.
- Illustrated Vignettes and Storytelling – Through drawing and narrative-building exercises, we generate vignettes that express shared and divergent concerns, desires, and possibilities for posthumanist co-existence.
Full program can be found here
Images of the workshop below:
