CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

Informacje na temat projektu

COFUTURES

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 852190

DOI

10.3030/852190

Projekt został zamknięty

Data podpisania przez KE 11 Października 2019

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Stycznia 2020

Data zakończenia 31 Grudnia 2024

Finansowanie w ramach

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Koszt całkowity

€ 1 319 219,00

Wkład UE

€ 1 319 219,00

Koordynowany przez

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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

Okres sprawozdawczy: 2024-07-01 do 2024-12-31

Podsumowanie kontekstu i ogólnych celów projektu

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.

Prace wykonane od początku projektu do końca okresu sprawozdawczego oraz najważniejsze dotychczasowe rezultaty

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.

Innowacyjność oraz oczekiwany potencjalny wpływ (w tym dotychczasowe znaczenie społeczno-gospodarcze i szersze implikacje społeczne projektu)

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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