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