Entangled Futures Network

The Entangled Futures Network (EFN) at Cambridge is a ground-breaking research initiative that addresses the complex challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Driven by the urgency of global crises, EFN adopts feminist, anti-racist, queer, decolonial, and digital perspectives to envision transformative and sustainable futures.

The EFN aims to: 

  • Foster interdisciplinary collaboration and critical practice 

  • Provide theoretical frameworks for imagining alternative futures 

  • Engage with grassroots activists, artists, and institutional leaders to create evidence-based strategies for future transformation 

  • Develop a platform for open-source, co-constructed virtual exhibitions and academic publications to disseminate research findings. 

Michaelmas Terms Events 2023

Theoretical & Writing Foundations for Entangled Futures  

  • 1: Introduction & Guided Walk around University: Participants explored the entangled pasts, presents, and futures through a virtual reality experience. 

  • 2: Embodied Epistemics Workshop: focusing on developing a foundational theoretical framework for understanding entanglement. 

  • 3: Thinking about Difference: ‘difference’, from feminist, queer, decolonial, and new materialist perspectives. 

  • 4: Toward Distributive Justice: implications of distributive justice in various contexts. 

Lent Term Events 2024

Practice-based Learning Research Network Application Form 

  • 5: Artist Session: exploring digital and analogue forms of thinking through artistic practice. 

  • 6: Activist Session: education, violence, and politics using feminist, anti-racist, queer, and decolonial frameworks. 

  • 7: Institutional Leader Session: what links capitalism, politics, and difference on multiple spatial scales? 

  • 8: Workshop on Creating Practice: exploring emergent themes across sessions. 

Easter Term Plans 2024

Writing Entanglement, Writing the Future 

  • Application for external funding to sustain the network's activities. 

  • Continued engagement with advisors and team members to strengthen research and impact. 

  • Hosting open gatherings and virtual exhibitions to build an internal and external network and showcase research outcomes. 

  • Through fortnightly sessions, advisor meetings, and open gatherings, EFN seeks to establish a research base, network, and proof of concept for future initiatives. 

Project benefits 

The fortnightly sessions, meetings with advisors and team, open gatherings and showcase of network research, and open-source, co-constructed virtual exhibitions will allow us to build an internal and external network, establish a research and impact base, and provide a proof of concept for a potential bid.