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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 15d

Registrations are now open for our PhD course “Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges”, to be held for the 5th time at Wageningen University April 20 – May 1, 2026. Apply by October 31! There are also partial scholarships for Global South based applicants! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 23d

Haha yes Return of the Mac is totally included in the library if play 😅 Nice to hear you still use it in your classes!

Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 24d

Join us in the Playground at Utrecht University next Friday Sept 26 to launch the Library for Transformative Play! It is the product of 4 years of collaborations within the Playing with the Trouble team, funded by CUCo.

Sign up here, It's open to all! unusualcollaborations.ewuu.nl/agenda/playi...

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alterotopia.bsky.social @alterotopia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Dear fellow trouble-dancer, we are thrilled to share our very first Alterotopian update with you! If you missed the launch of our website, discover how we are Resonating, Raging, and Figuring in #Alterotopia: alterotopia.com

Alterotopia - alterotopia.com

Alterotopia, a place to explore power, transformative change and radical belonging through creative encounters

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Jul 25

our attempt at a utopian conference (organized more like dialogue/jam/creative sessions), that also just so happens to be about utopias ;) www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions

From 3-5 July 2024, dr. Josephine Chambers organised the Utopia*Art*Politics sessions with keynotes by Lola Olufemi and Stephen Duncombe at BAK—basis voor actuele kunst, in Utrecht.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · Jul 14

The amazing @jochamb.bsky.social and I got married last week! Thanks to all our family and friends for making it such a special day for us ❤️

Two people walking in a garden, very much in love

Two people being showered with confetti, very much in love

Two people getting marries, very much in love

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

So wonderful to finally receive my TWIG (The What If Garden) zine in the mail today—A Field Guide to Radical Imagination! Check it out here: lnkd.in/dw8i2AJv. An output of the Lorentz workshop we hosted in January: Unlocking the Imagination: Art-Science for Radical"!

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · May 19

Last week we kicked off the 4th rendition of our Transformative Research PhD course at Utrecht University! It's been a pleasure getting to know this wonderful group of passionate researchers exploring how to push the boundaries of their research practice. Looking forward to the second week together!

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Apr 9

New Utopian Pulse out!—introducing the newly released Utopia*Art*Politics Collection and also new #electronic #atmospheric #triphop song created with the brilliant Noor Noor: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t.... The collection seeks to revitalise our utopian imagination and politics. Cover art: Felipe Viveros

The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection

The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · Apr 9

| Blog | Read @jochamb.bsky.social new blog post where she introduces the Utopia*Art*Politics Collection; a multi-media collection of provocations and insights by 33 artist-researcher-practitioners who participated in the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions last year: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection

The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · Mar 27

What should an 'Institute for Sustainable Worlds' do?

I wrote some initial thoughts about what we're trying at Norwich University of the Arts: architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2025/03/26/c...

A view towards Agricultural Hall Plain, Norwich, from the top floor of 20 Bank Plain. It is a misty morning with the sun visible through the mist. Cars are queuing to cross a junction with a Boer War memorial of a bronze angel on it.

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Feb 26

The time is finally here to apply for our Urban Futures Studio summer school 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵, organised by wonderful colleagues Jeroen Oomen, Tim Stacey & Maarten Hajer! @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social Apply by April 1st! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Jan 23

New Utopian Pulse out @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social: The perils of foretelling the future: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t.... My effort to make sense of recent struggles, from Trump's re-election and spread of populism across Europe, to deepening rifts among pessimistic & optimistic outlooks in the classroom

The perils of foretelling the future

For the opening keynote for the 16th Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference, Josie Chambers chose not to focus on the dominant ways people have been co-producing knowledge and action for sust...

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · Jan 23

| Blog | "We have been so busy recovering from the recent pandemic of the body, that we have been blind to the growing pandemic of the #imagination" Read @jochamb.bsky.social 's new blog post: The perils of foretelling the #future www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

Book cover, with blue artwork, of 'The left hand of darkness' by Ursula Le Guin.

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Jan 7

Join us for the public lecture 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬? Together we will map the emotional landscape of climate conversations.

📅 Jan 29, 5-6:30pm + drinks
📍 Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden

More details here! rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/te-zien-te-d...

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · Dec 31

Just in the nick of time, I blew the cobwebs off the blog and finished a post / newsletter looking back at some projects from 2024 — read it here: architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2024/12/31/2... or subscribe to the newsletter: buttondown.email/imaginaries

Around 15 orange and yellow illuminated coloured acrylic "Sunrise" and "Sunset" discs in a frame, with a video of a sunset projected over them. The discs have drawings or paintings on them of things including a tree, a diagram of the earth with arrows around it, and an abstract zig-zag star pattern.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Dec 21

I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

Why climate despair is a luxury

Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Dec 17

As part of our Transformative Research PhD course last May, Aisha So wrote & illustrated a fantastic story to explore doubt and tensions in research. It won a special award for combining art and academia at EASST-4S, and is now online! Huge congratulations to Aisha!! www.uu.nl/en/news/aish...

Aisha So’s illustrated story wins special award for combining art and academia

PhD candidate Aisha So has won a special prize for her short story that blends creativity with reflective insights on transformative research.

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Dec 13

So wonderful performing with the Copernicats yesterday, the open jam group at our institute -- 20 colleagues performed together across a spectacular two hour set! 🔥

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hi 👋 We're new at #Bluesky and just getting to know this platform. In the meantime, if you want to know more about us, you could sign up for our quarterly newsletter. #comingsoon mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...

People holding up protest signs in Dutch saying 'Hope', 'A new era', appetite for the future', 'Here is where I want to be', etc.

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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · Nov 27

Made a starter pack with a juicy mix of people working on imagination, (embodied) imaginal practice, futures and more. go.bsky.app/G69gDx3

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · Dec 5

Great to launch the 2nd edition of the Creative Collectives for Utopia zine: Visions of Better Worlds, made by students of the MSc course Imagining the Future for Transformation. It shares futuring approaches co-produced with 6 initiatives around the world. Check it out! www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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İdil Gaziulusoy @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social · Nov 28

Applications are now open for our #Creative #Sustainability master’s program. www.aalto.fi/en/creative-... @aaltouniversity.bsky.social

How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme | Aalto University

How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · Nov 27

We are living in troubling times. It is difficult to make sense of all interacting logics. That is why I was touched by this profoundly insightful statement by #amitavghosh on the acceptance of the #erasmusprize Highly recommendable. Thanks, @amitav.bsky.social erasmusprijs.org/prijswinnaar...

Erasmusprijswinnaars - Stichting Praemium Erasmianum

It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...

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