Lead names: Dr. Annouchka Bayley
Department: Faculty of Education
Themes:
- Area Studies, Global Inequality and Economic Development
- Social, cultural, economic transformations
- Technology, Knowledge and Human Development
- Legacies of the Past or Historical Transitions
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
Michaelmas Terms Events 2023:
Theoretical & Writing Foundations for Entangled Futures
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1: Introduction & Guided Walk around University: Participants explored the entangled pasts, presents, and futures through a virtual reality experience.
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2: Embodied Epistemics Workshop: focusing on developing a foundational theoretical framework for understanding entanglement.
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3: Thinking about Difference: ‘difference’, from feminist, queer, decolonial, and new materialist perspectives.
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4: Toward Distributive Justice: implications of distributive justice in various contexts.
Lent Term Events 2024:
Practice-based Learning Research Network Application Form
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5: Artist Session: exploring digital and analogue forms of thinking through artistic practice.
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6: Activist Session: education, violence, and politics using feminist, anti-racist, queer, and decolonial frameworks.
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7: Institutional Leader Session: what links capitalism, politics, and difference on multiple spatial scales?
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8: Workshop on Creating Practice: exploring emergent themes across sessions.
Easter Term Plans 2024:
Writing Entanglement, Writing the Future
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Application for external funding to sustain the network's activities.
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Continued engagement with advisors and team members to strengthen research and impact.
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Hosting open gatherings and virtual exhibitions to build an internal and external network and showcase research outcomes.
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Through fortnightly sessions, advisor meetings, and open gatherings, EFN seeks to establish a research base, network, and proof of concept for future initiatives.
Project goals
The Entangled Futures Network aims to:
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Foster interdisciplinary collaboration and critical practice
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Provide theoretical frameworks for imagining alternative futures
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Engage with grassroots activists, artists, and institutional leaders to create evidence-based strategies for future transformation
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Develop a platform for open-source, co-constructed virtual exhibitions and academic publications to disseminate research findings.
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.
Project use of HSS Interactive Mapping Tool for Networks & Research Collaborations
The Interactive Mapping tool would be really helpful for identifying other researchers within the school who are interested in engaging with us and developing broader connections with external partners and collaborators.
