Speculative futures workshop / artistic research pedagogy / climate scenario
A World Without Funding is a speculative futures workshop that invites participants to imagine a near future in which the climate emergency has forced governments, institutions, and economies to redirect all available resources toward ecological survival.
Set in a fictional scenario where public and private funding for the arts, humanities, urban planning, and cultural production has disappeared, the workshop asks a difficult question: what can artistic practice do when it is no longer supported for its own sake, but only valued for its capacity to help society respond to climate change, poverty, migration, and social transformation?
Through group discussion, scenario-building, visual exercises, and collective speculation, participants explore the future as a practical tool for social imagination and public decision-making. The workshop works with possible, plausible, and desirable futures, helping participants understand how present tendencies may reshape everyday life, institutions, cultural work, and political priorities.
‘The World Needs to Get Water Smart’. The Haven beneath our Feet : Rama Al Aisami (LUH), Carolina Monroy (LUH)
Originally developed as part of The Future of Creative Cities: A Bogotá–Hannover Workshop Exchange, the project brought together students and participants who created speculative responses to climate futures, including works such as The World Needs to Get Water Smart, The End of Globalization, Globalization is Dead, and The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The End of Globalization: Damien Simmons (UniSA)
A World Without Funding can be booked and adapted for universities, art schools, cultural institutions, research groups, and public programmes interested in artistic research, futures thinking, climate imagination, and socially engaged pedagogy.
The workshop can be offered as a short intensive session, a one-day workshop, or a multi-session programme.
Selected works:
The World Needs to Get Water Smart: Rama Al Aisami (LUH), Carolina Monroy (LUH).
The End of Globalization: Damien Simmons (UniSA).
Globalization is Dead: Vanessa Lébolo (UNorte), Daniela Manjarrés (UNorte).
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Edward Zambrano (USalle), Silvana Zambrano (USalle).
Here you can read a PUBLICATION by THE FUTURE OF CREATIVE CITIES: A Bogotá – Hannover Workshop exchange in which we participated in 2021.