Speculative Storytelling as Transformative Practice: Reimagining Narratives of Displacement

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Co-Futures: Futures from the Margins, Podium, Oslo.

With Cian Mcalone, Lauren Parater, and Shanice Costa.

 

This exhibition and series of activities focused on cultivating spaces for collaborative creativity, offering opportunities for participants to imagine and manifest artifacts and propositions as modes of speculative storytelling to promote social change. 

 

This was facilitated by collaborators from the United Nations and Collective Effervescence as part of a larger project that explores how storytelling and speculative fabulation can act as world-building practices. The collaborative partnership engages art, storytelling, design, and the social sciences to address alternative approaches to thinking about displacement, asking difficult questions about the UN and the futures it shapes. 

 

Participants had the opportunity to not only engage in generative activities but to learn more about this collaboration through a gallery exhibition, and gather insights from Project Unsung, a speculative storytelling project that brought together creative collaborators from around the world to help reimagine the humanitarian sector and promote narrative change and foresight within the UN system.