CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

Informations projet

COFUTURES

N° de convention de subvention: 852190

DOI

10.3030/852190

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 11 Octobre 2019

Date de début 1 Janvier 2020

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2024

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coût total

€ 1 319 219,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 1 319 219,00

Coordonné par

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

Periodic Reporting for period 4 - COFUTURES (CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents)

Période du rapport: 2024-07-01 au 2024-12-31

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

CoFutures is a project aimed at developing a theory for the study of futurisms from 2001- present. These futurisms, including Afrofuturisms, Africanfuturisms, Arabfuturisms, Gulf-futurisms, Sinofuturisms, Indofuturisms, Desifuturisms, Latin American, and Latinxfuturisms, occur in different media, occur in multiple languages, and are distributed globally. This creates unique theoretical and methodological challenges as there is no singular way to understand the plurality of these futurisms. The main objectives of the project are to understand and map these futurisms, and especially explore how they relate to contemporary societal challenges of climate change, demographic change, and technological change.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

The CoFutures team has so far published numeroujournal and book articles in leading venues (such as Science Fiction Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Foundation, Springer, Routledge), edited two journal special issues (Utopian Studies, Vector), produced several books with leading publishers (such as MIT Press, Routledge, Tordotcom), and has many books in the pipeline under contract (Chicago UP, Routledge). The team has conducted fieldwork in a dozen countries and interviewed over 200 creators of contemporary futurisms. We have organized two major conference, "Futures from the Margins" and "Community Speculations and Technopolitics" (https://conference.cofutures.org) organized many open and closed webinars, and held several workshops. The project also received the ERC-Proof of Concept grant.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

A new theory of CoFuturisms, established in a multi-format network of outputs: books, handbooks, articles, translations, fiction, interviews, media, lecture library, etc.

Expected Results
Publications: 19 articles, one handbook, one methods book, two translation books, one monograph, two PhD theses.
Media: repository of interviews, lectures
Software: Ideaweb

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