SOLAR FUTURES invites 3 individual artists to create new works exploring #solarpunk ☀️

Each artist will create one work choosing a specific format linked to a thematic pathway:
☀ Physical Installation, on #Renewable Energy and Circular Resources
☀ Screen-Based Experience, on #Permacomputing and Digital Sobriety

☀ Live Performance, on New #Imaginaries for Political and Societal Organisation


☀️ Mar 15, 2026 → Application deadline

🔗 https://solarfutures.eu/

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@instrumentinventorsinitiative

Solar Futures

Imagining Regenerative Worlds is a collaborative project uniting art, science and technology to envision optimistic, ecological and community-driven futures.

#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS

❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?

❓ Which novel #ideological positions have emerged around the specific #affordances and #dilemmas of AI?

📣 We are looking for submissions for a Special Section of the International Journal of Communication addressing questions like these:

https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-2/

Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts

Few technological developments spark more debate today than artificial intelligence. From promises of human advancement to fears of existential risk, AI generat

ComAI - RU 5656 "Communicative AI"

Merit, Measurement, and Moral Order: The Market Imaginary in Education

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1968-7955-ae60-480006401775

Too often, our digital platforms treat merit and performance as neutral facts. But these systems reflect a deeper market-based moral order, where learning is imagined as competition, efficiency, and control.

In my latest blog post, I explore how data-driven tools in education are shaped by the social imaginary of the market - and how we might begin to question and reimagine them.

Merit, Measurement, and Moral Order: The Market Imaginary in Education
https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0042_merit_measurement_and_moral_order.html

More posts at: https://www.e-learning-rules.com/

#Education #EdTech #CriticalPedagogy #DigitalLearning #Assessment #HigherEducation #Imaginaries #FediverseEducation

Today we had the first day of our biannual DiscourseNet, this time in #Brussels. We had great discussions about discourses and imaginaries of the future, and will still have plenty of keynotes and panels until Thursday. Thank you Jan Zienkowski for organising this amazing event.

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6-6th-discoursenet-congress-discourse-and-imaginaries-past-present-and-future-societies-media #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Imaginaries #DNC6

Esta tarde, o Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond” promove uma conversa aberta entre Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (IHC) e Marçal de Menezes Paredes (PUCRS).

Todas e todos são bem-vindos!

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sobre-imaginarios/

#Histodons #AntiColonialism #PostColonialism #Lusotopy #Imaginaries #AntiColonialismo #PósColonialismo #Imaginários

O Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond” promove uma conversa aberta entre Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (IHC) e Marçal de Menezes Paredes (PUCRS) em torno de um tema fundamental das suas reflexões: os Imaginários.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sobre-imaginarios/

#Histodons #AntiColonialism #PostColonialism #Lusotopy #Imaginaries #AntiColonialismo #PósColonialismo #Imaginários

OnlineFirst - "Land, values, and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany" by Alexander Dobeson:

#landmarkets #valuation #imaginaries #fictitiouscommodities #morality

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X251333258

| Blog | Read Josie Chambers' new blog post where she introduces the Utopia*Art*Politics Collection; a multi-media collection of provocations and insights by 33 artist-researcher-practitioners who participated in the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions last year. The collection brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world: https://www.uu.nl/en/opinion/the-utopiaartpolitics-collection #UtopianPulses #Utopia #Art #Politics #Research #Futures #Futuring #Imaginaries
The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection

The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative potential of utopia—not as an elite blueprint of predefined ends—but as a radically collective method for justice.

Utrecht University