Beyond Dystopia | Finding New Futures Through Speculative Fiction
When the world feels broken, imagination is more necessary than ever. But what happens when even our imaginations are saturated with collapse and catastrophe?
Join Climate Lounge for a writing workshop that aims to move beyond the familiar grammar of dystopia and into the work of imagining liveable, just, and ecologically alive futures. The workshop will draw on the visionary fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, the Solarpunk movement, and the African Speculative Fiction anthology Our Move Next that imagines into being, Pan-African visions of a post-Capitalist world. Together, we will explore how fiction can not only warn but also dream, design, and plant seeds for futures that transcend doomerism and dystopia.
The workshop will include a discussion on craft, close reading, and generative writing exercises, that will leave you with an expanded sense of what speculative fiction can be.