CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

Informazioni relative al progetto

COFUTURES

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 852190

DOI

10.3030/852190

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 11 Ottobre 2019

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2020

Data di completamento 31 Dicembre 2024

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale

€ 1 319 219,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 319 219,00

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-07-01 al 2024-12-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

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.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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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