Critical Pathways Community Day 2025 with Kim Stanley Robinson
Living Otherwise: Fiction, Ecology and Alternative Tomorrows
Save the date for Critical Pathways' community day 2025! On November 28th, you are invited to a community afternoon with the theme "Living Otherwise". Through workshops, a panel, an artistic intervention, alongside an online lecture by Kim Stanley Robinson, join us in exploring diverse pathways toward alternative forms of social and ecological organization on a changing planet.
During this year's Critical Pathways Community Day, we'll examine how we might move beyond mainstream approaches toward more sustainable, multispecies forms of coexistence.
In an online lecture, Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss how narratives and imagination help us envision planetary futures that transcend conventional frameworks, while Potgrond's artistic interlude will ground these conversations in embodied experiences of ecological memory and transformation.
Contributions from members of the Critical Pathways community will explore how different disciplinary perspectives, from humanities and social sciences to natural sciences and geosciences, can illuminate and cultivate these alternative tomorrows, whether through storytelling, research practices, community experiments, artistic interventions, or other forms of knowledge that engage with more-than-human worlds and regenerative approaches to planetary stewardship.
Community Day Programme
12:30 - 13:00: Walk-in
13:00 - 13:15: Introduction
13:15 - 14:15: Panel Discussion (Speakers to be announced soon!)
14:30 - 15:30: Exciting and Instructive Workshops :)
16:00 - 17:00: Online Lecture by Kim Stanley Robinson, followed by a conversation with Maarten Hajer
17:30 onwards: Drinks and Good Conversation!
About Keynote Speaker Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. The author of more than twenty books and numerous short stories, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, Robinson engages deeply with the idea of "Living Otherwise", as well as the tensions between nature and culture in his work. His recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, is an engaging near-future story that offers a vision for how we might come together to act and manage climate change.
In conversation with Maarten A. Hajer
Maarten A. Hajer (1962) is distinguished professor Urban Futures and Futuring and Director of the . Previously Hajer was professor of Public Policy at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam (1998 - 2015) and Director-General of the PBL - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2008 - 2015). Hajer holds MA degrees in Political Science and in Urban and Regional Planning (both 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam) and got his D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford 木瓜福利影视.
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