The unraveling of environmental and social systems across the planet requires us to grapple with the prospect of a far more challenging future, one of mutually exacerbating crises. Our response to this “polycrisis” must be based on a realistic understanding of both the predicament and pathways ahead. And yet visions of possible positive futures are critical—not only to sustain ourselves through difficult days but also to help move humanity wisely and cooperatively forward. 

Please join a remarkable panel of creative visionaries, narrative weavers, and dreamers to explore: 

• the role of dreaming in tying us to both past and future; 
• why new and old stories are needed to collectively respond to the polycrisis in ways that care for life; and 
• how to envision possible positive futures while remaining grounded in a realistic understanding of the challenge we face.

Live Event & Recordings

The live event will take place between 1:30-3:00 am UTC on September 14, 2023. (Find out what time this is for you.)
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If you are unable to attend the live event, we encourage you to sign up anyway as a link to the recording will be sent to anyone who registers below.

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About the Panelists

Dr. Anne Poelina is a ​​Nyikina Warrwa Aboriginal community leader from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Professor of Indigenous Knowledges, and filmmaker. ​​Through her post-graduate studies in biophysical and social sciences and education, Anne incorporates a trans-disciplinary approach, including art through cultural knowledge and practice.

Vandana Singh is a professor of physics and a transdisciplinary scholar of climate change at Framingham State University in the United States. She is also a writer of speculative fiction, one of four global Climate Imagination Fellows selected by Arizona State University to write a series of fictional short stories—informed by reality and science—that imagine how we might successfully adapt and respond to the climate crisis in the future.

Mehul Sangham is the Executive Director of Culture Hack Labs, a cooperatively run advisory organization that supports organizations, social movements, and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change based on an integrated set of tools and techniques to track, research and intervene in cultural narratives.