Our Interventions & Provocations
We take pride in the stories we shape and the impact we create. Yet we remain deeply critical and reflective of the systems we operate within and our role in them.
We hold ourselves accountable, ensuring that our work does not reinforce the very structures we seek to transform.
The Tipping Point to Decolonise Sustainability
The Tipping Point to Decolonise Sustainability (2023) was an interdisciplinary, pioneering event in the field of decolonisation, climate justice, and sustainability in Oslo. It was an experimental space to tell complicated stories of climate, sustainability, and Indigenous environmental struggles impacted by long colonial histories, in an open and accessible public format. It was a decolonial praxis in storytelling, collectivism and partnership, and an alternative method of resilience disrupting hegemonic narratives and conventional thinking.
Key insights: decoloniality · sustainability · interdisciplinary · decolonial praxis · Global South · Indigenous · collectivism · creative storytelling · innovative collaboration
Photos by Alex Asensi
Forbes
Our critical public discourse ‘The Tipping Point to Decolonise Sustainability’ in Forbes, October 2023.
Decolonising Narratives in Communication:
A Case Study of The Tipping Point to Decolonise Sustainability
The Tipping Point to Decolonise Sustainability became a case study for the peer-reviewed article Decolonising Narratives in Communication, published by the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (2024).
Key insights: decoloniality · storytelling · narratives · interdisciplinary · partnership · research · peer-reviewed article writing
The Pluriversal Playhouse
The Pluriversal Playhouse (2024) was an exploration of pluriverse and decolonising futures in the format of innovative & interdisciplinary storytelling. It was a cinematic journey of a multitude of futures and diverse stories and narratives, a melting pot of ideas, knowledge, cosmologies, and ontologies. It featured the intersection of futures, AI, climate justice and imaginative storytelling, with cross-cultural perspectives from invited experts from Indigenous Turtle Island (specifically Oglála Lakȟóta), Alkebulan (specifically Niger Delta), India, and Indonesia (specifically the Dayak community in Borneo). The topics are ‘Pluriverse & Imagination’ (Sahana Chattopadhyay), ‘Futures & Afrofuturism’ (Dr. Wilfred Ukpong), ‘Indigenous Futurism & AI’ (Suzanne Kite, PhD.), and ‘Imagining the Future Amid Ecological Disaster’ (Emmanuela Shinta, activist and storyteller/documentary filmmaker).
Key insights: futures · pluriverse · imagination · decoloniality · decolonising futures · Afrofuturism · Indigenous AI · Global South climate justice · alternative narratives · experimental storytelling · cross cultural perspective · inclusivity · creative project · collaboration
Unlearn Colonial Patterns
“Seeking to Unlearn Colonial Patterns in Systems Change” workshop (2024) was a part of the esteemed Annual Systemic Design Symposium: Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD 13), organised by the Systemic Design Association. The workshop was intended “to cultivate and imagine an alternative, decolonial approach to systems change and systems thinking - by interrogating colonial patterns, embracing pluralism, and fostering imagination. ” It explores questions such as ‘What role does imagination play in envisioning and implementing alternative, decolonised approaches to systems change and design?’.
Key insights: decoloniality · systems change · systems thinking · decolonial systems thinking · pluriversal design · pathways
