Future Imaginaries: investigating and intervening in the political imaginary crisis through collaborative speculation.

这一跨学科、以实践为基础的研究项目考察了面向未来的社会参与艺术如何有助于我们对政治想象的危机的理解和干预，超越当今社会参与艺术中占主导地位的激进主义和有用模式。通过实践和论文，我会问：面向未来的集体艺术创作如何重新配置政治想象的概念，它在叙述令人向往的未来方面发挥了什么作用？我将与思考型设计师和社会科学家合作，设计新的方法论工具(发明装置)。利用这些，我将促进参与者对关于未来社会的电影元素的想法的发展。由此产生的身临其境的电影布景--而不是制作一部实际的电影--将探索如何以同时话语、视觉和物质的方式集体表达和叙述政治欲望和未来愿景。该项目将在最近对社会科学中的激进想象力和未来学进行审问之后，促进社会参与的艺术方法、实践和学术研究。

This interdisciplinary, practice-based research project examines how future-oriented socially-engaged art can contribute to our understanding of and intervene in the crisis of political imaginary, transcending the activist and usefulness modes predominant in socially-engaged art today. Through practice and thesis, I will ask: how can future-oriented collective art making reconfigure notions of political imaginary and what agency does it exert in narrating desirable futures? I will devise new methodological tools (inventive devices) in collaboration with speculative designers and social scientists. Using these, I will facilitate the participants' development of ideas for elements of a film about future society. The resulting immersive installation of a film set - without making an actual film - will explore how political desires and future visions can be expressed and narrated collectively in a simultaneously discursive, visual and material way. The project will contribute to socially-engaged art methodology, practice and scholarship, following the recent interrogation of radical imagination and futurology in social sciences.