Introducing: Critical Cat Studies by Nazli Akhtari Critical Cat Studies offers guidance on how to learn with cats in ways that blur Euro-American centric ways of knowing and help us attune to more joyful, sustainable, and equitable ways of living and making worlds. Who better than unruly cats can complicate for us the artificial borders →
Immigration & Mobility developed by Taiwo Afolabi with the support of Olusola John. Immigration & Mobility focuses on roots and routes, and the realities of immigration, including the processes we have to go through to arrive at a place. The course considers what it means to leave, what pieces go with us, and what it →
Introducing Crip Glam: Spells for Everyday Disability Activism by Julia Havard Crip Glam highlights the aesthetic interventions that queer and trans disabled people use to undo ableism, cissexism and heterosexism, and casts spells for crip femme futures, a distinctly femme and disabled approach to aesthetics and activism. Beyond survival, what are the practices and tools →
Introducing: Peasant futurisms by Sanita Fejzić Peasant futurisms is a call to transform capitalist cities into edible and wilder ecocities, with protected greenbelts and foodbelts, rooted in circular economies with the goal of growing more liveable and delicious futures for all. This course invites learning from peasant knowledges and practices of cooperative labour, mutual aid, →
Introducing: At Least This Will Make a Funny Show by Kristina Wong At Least This Will Make a Funny Show guides you through attempting to make dramatic social change in the world without giving into existing systems of charity, failing, and then making an original (maybe award winning) solo performance piece about how you tried. →
The course explores Indigenous land-based wisdom especially in reference to the body and Indigenous rights. You will consider, how have the stories I have been told about the land influenced me? What kind of stories do I need less/more of? Upon deepening our connection with the land, we will develop a passion for caring for →
Introducing: Unsustainable Utopias by Meghan Moe Beitiks Unsustainable Utopias is an exploration of the false promise of utopias and the human tendency to seek them out, build them up, and destroy them. We will review failed utopias across time and cultures and examine the events that led to their various transitions into cults, militias, closed →
Introducing Geon Nativa: Cookery and Intergenerational Codes of Memory by Aisha Lesley Bentham According to Geon Nativa, Conjuring is about the process of alignment between you, the earth and the spirit. We explore Conjuring through practice, method and review. Conjure also demonstrates, in small & large ways, how life and the world around you is →
The CSPA Department of Utopian Arts and Letters (DUAL) is a project of the Centre for Sustainable Arts. It is a project of public dreaming born out of desires for decolonization, climate justice, and collective liberation. It envisions Plural Utopias Of the Future (PUOF), each imagined through the radical thinking of diverse artists. DUAL operates →
“Utopia gives us a direction, it orients our compasses. No matter where we are or what we are doing, it gives us a point to look to on a horizon, enabling us to see the different paths available, and to reorient ourselves” —Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert, The Art of Activism The Department of Utopian →
