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Beschreibung
How art and design can be powerful tools for actively shaping the futures of climate change.

The future has been canceled or at least reduced to a perpetual extension of the present, or so we have been told many times by cultural theorists in recent decades. As the unfolding environmental crisis impels us to look ahead with a renewed sense of urgency, many now realize that these futures never went away. In Futures in the Making, Theo Reeves-Evison invites readers to explore the role of contemporary art and creative practice in shaping environmental futures. As well as looking at representations of these futures, he pays particular attention to the tools and techniques used to produce them.

Tracing the genealogies of socio-technical practices such as scenario planning, prospecting, and geoengineering, the author argues that the ways pasts, presents, and futures are bridged represent a kind of infrastructure. While many of these infrastructures are readily associated with scientific, corporate, and policy work, they nevertheless sit within an expanded field of speculative and anticipatory activities. Creative practice has the potential to expand this field even further, widening the frame of what constitutes a valid form of future making, and changing how environmental futures are offered up as objects of experience in the process.
How art and design can be powerful tools for actively shaping the futures of climate change.

The future has been canceled or at least reduced to a perpetual extension of the present, or so we have been told many times by cultural theorists in recent decades. As the unfolding environmental crisis impels us to look ahead with a renewed sense of urgency, many now realize that these futures never went away. In Futures in the Making, Theo Reeves-Evison invites readers to explore the role of contemporary art and creative practice in shaping environmental futures. As well as looking at representations of these futures, he pays particular attention to the tools and techniques used to produce them.

Tracing the genealogies of socio-technical practices such as scenario planning, prospecting, and geoengineering, the author argues that the ways pasts, presents, and futures are bridged represent a kind of infrastructure. While many of these infrastructures are readily associated with scientific, corporate, and policy work, they nevertheless sit within an expanded field of speculative and anticipatory activities. Creative practice has the potential to expand this field even further, widening the frame of what constitutes a valid form of future making, and changing how environmental futures are offered up as objects of experience in the process.
Über den Autor
Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at Birmingham School of Art. He is coeditor, with Jon K. Shaw, of Fiction as Method, author of Ethics of Contemporary Art, and contributor to journals including Third Text, New Formations, Critical Inquiry, and Environmental Humanities.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Patchwork Futures
1 Scenario Planning
2 Prospecting
3 Engineering
4 Enacting
Conclusion: A Lockpicker’s Guide to Climate Futures
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262056120
ISBN-10: 0262056127
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Reeves-Evison, Theo
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 223 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Theo Reeves-Evison
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2026
Gewicht: 0,375 kg
Artikel-ID: 136509032

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