Barton, Gemma, 2024, Conference or Workshop, Queer futures: Correlations between queer identity and imagination literacy at DRS 2024 RESISTANCE, RECOVERY, REFLECTION, REIMAGINATION, BOSTON, 23-28 JUNE 2024.
Abstract or Description: | Futures thinking, and doing, has been the domain of the privileged majority for centuries. The very idea of ‘the future’ (singular) was fundamental to the crea-tion and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity. To this day, mainstream media readily emits the narrow and repetitive science fic-tion tropes void of (realistic, fair) representation of a wider inclusive society, specifically absent of queerness. This paper builds on the work of Alexis Lothian’s ‘Old Futures: speculative fiction and queer possibility’ in which she explores the forces queer people (and other marginalised communities) invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way of transforming the present. To do so, the author presents findings from an anonymized global study of the correlations be-tween queer identity and imagination literacy. Addressing the questions - how does identity inform our ability to imagine the future and the content of those imagined futures? |
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Official URL: | https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferenc... |
Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies |
School or Centre: | School of Architecture |
Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.292 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | queer theory; futures studies; imagination literacy; margins; speculative fiction |
Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2024 10:42 |
Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 10:42 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6003 |
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