Seminar 4: Ruben Ritzén (Lund University & Swedish research and arts collective Climaginaries) – Sustainable futures and the role of imagination in the green transition

As part of the research and arts-collective Climaginaries, Ruben Ritzén has helped create soundwalks discussing climate adaptation issues, a travel guide to a sustainable future Skåne and developed a futures-oriented school material based on the tenets of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). He has also extensively researched and worked on Carbon Ruins – an exhibition of the fossil era, a museum set in the future.

Drawing on these experiences, Ruben Ritzén will in his talk discuss the power of knowledge-based speculation, the future as political project, the importance of emotionally anchoring abstract climate issues and the concept of active hope.