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SUMMARY:Climate Futures\, Design and the Just Transition Symposium\, 
 Providence\, USA
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181109T133000
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DESCRIPTION:At a time when climate politics would seem to be stuck between 
 a state of &ldquo\;melancholic paralysis&rdquo\; (Wark\, 2015) and 
 &ldquo\;passive nihilism&rdquo\; (Connolly\, 2016)\, mobilizations 
 occurring around just transitions stand as one of the few bright spots on 
 the horizon. Discussions of just transitions are at different stages of 
 development. They come with the usual bundle of issues\, problems\, 
 controversies and setbacks. But they also come with potential and promise.
  In a bleak intellectual context\, where the converging forces of climate 
 destabilization and authoritarian populism would seem to be shrinking the 
 ecopolitical imaginary to the propositions that we must either prepare for
  the worst or embrace a technocratic ecomodernist project to decarbonize 
 the status quo\, discussions circulating around just transitions are 
 marked by a refreshing level of pragmatic concreteness and even a degree 
 of hope. Building on two previous meetings held at Brown and Northeastern 
 by the Just Transitions Research Network in 2016 and 2017\, this symposium
  will bring together a range of scholars and activists to map some of the 
 different ways in which the search for just and rapid post carbon 
 transitions now animates all manner of interventions--on the part of labor
  and climate justice activists\, designers\, architects\, academics and 
 artists--and is opening up intersectional spaces across movements fighting
  for racial and gender justice. We will explore the political\, 
 ideological\, aesthetic\, cultural and socio-technological barriers that 
 stand in the way of just transitions in both the Global North and Global 
 South. We will consider who is visible and who is rendered invisible in 
 different kinds of transition discourses. This symposium will explore the 
 potential material\, political and ecological impacts of a renewables 
 roll-out. Finally\, we will debate the merits of just transitions premised
  on frameworks such as green growth\, plenitude\, degrowth\, design 
 futuring\, decoloniality and beyond. 
LOCATION:The Rhode Island School of Design\, Providence\, USA
PRIORITY:5
URL:https://www.designresearchsociety.org:443/events/climate-futures-
 design-and-the-just-transition-symposium-providence-usa
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