Learning Planet Festival: Decarbonizing Scholarship: Worldbuilding Futures Beyond the Petrocultural University

This hybrid event unfolds in two connected parts: a “Just an Hour” session followed by an interactive workshop inviting participants to move from speculative inquiry to collective worldbuilding. Participants are encouraged to attend both parts.

-Part I | Just an Hour: Decarbonizing Scholarship
The first hour features Just an Hour, a monthly happening hosted at Arizona State University within the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. In this special edition, two ASU research collaboratives, Education for Planetary Futures and Imaginations and Futures Thinking for K–12 Education, join forces around a shared project inspired by the Manifesto for Decarbonizing Research and Teaching (written by ASU faculty and students).
This session presents a research paper and a creative (an)archive developed through speculative work set in a future where higher education has collapsed — not for lack of innovation, but for failing to listen to the increasingly loud warnings articulated across climate and justice manifestos.
-Part II | Workshop: Worldbuilding the (An)Archive
The second hour invites participants into the worldbuilding methodology used in the project. Together, we will collaboratively imagine educational futures beyond the petrocultural university and contribute new entries to the evolving (an)archive, experimenting with imagination as a method.

Location:
Payne Hall, Room 129, 1000 S Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

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