SYMPOSIUM | Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and indigenous projections

This afternoon symposium brings together researchers and practitioners whose work engages with the themes of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and other emerging areas of science-fictional/future-orientated cultural practice in which people of colour, indigenous cultures and non-Western subjects take centre stage.

Speculative design will be addressed in terms of its ability to raise problems, rather than solve them. As a tool for speculation, it opens up spaces for presenting problems, to model alternatives, and to generate imaginative responses. It will be explored in terms of its overlaps with art practice and in in relation to science-fiction writing.

Confirmed speakers:

Charlotte Bailey

Grace L Dillon

Kelly Kayanama

Florence Okoye

More TBA!

Tickets:

Students £6

Full Price £8

Booking essential.

This event is convened by Dr Dan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, Chelsea College of Arts and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.

Image: Elizabeth La Pensee, She Carries the Water. Courtesy of the artist.