Thursday October 12th 2023

9:30am: Introduction by Prof. Frédéric Fabry, Director, Bieler School of Environment

10:00am – 12:00pm Building Hopeful Stories Across Science and Fiction (Renee Sieber and Lisa Bornstein): Workshop presenting science fiction authors in dialogue with academics, to discuss and model how these two communities can work together across boundaries to create hopeful narratives for the future.

12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch break: MAPP_MTL The Station de L’avenir: Projection mapping workshop with Marc-Olivier Lamothe.

1:30pm – 3:00pm Turning Research into Hopeful Stories (Kevin Manaugh): Faculty-led Workshop on how university researchers can shape their scholarly findings and data into narratives with the the potential to change the course of how we think about the future, through hopeful, yet realistic, visions.

3:30pm – 5:00pm Student-led Workshop on Hope and the Future: This workshop will centre and give platform to the perspectives, concerns and ideas of students and young people, which are fundamental for the creation of the narratives that will shape public discourse and climate policy in the years and decades to come.

5:30pm: Keynote: Annalee Newitz – “Worldbuilding Is Resistance: Environmental Science Fiction and Direct Action”

7:00pm: MAPP_MTL The Station de L’avenir: Projection mapping performance with Marc-Olivier Lamothe.

Friday October 13th 2023

9:15am – 11:15am: Seeds of Good Anthropocenes Workshop (Elena Bennett and Elson Galang): Led by two researchers from the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes project, this session will inspire participants on the power of positive future thinking, demonstrate initiatives already happening to achieve Good Anthropocenes, and develop a more tangible imaginary of positive futures.

11:30am – 1:00pm: Teaching and Learning for Hopeful Futures (Daphne Chalmers): This will be an interactive and cross disciplinary workshop to collectively envision how we can bring hope into our educational spaces for transformation and positive change in our current and future world.

1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch break: MAPP_MTL The Station de L’avenir: Projection mapping workshop with Marc-Olivier Lamothe.

2:00pm – 3:30pm: Telling the Story of the Future (Chris Barrington-Leigh): Roundtable discussion presenting the key ideas and solutions produced during the conference, framing them as tools to be implemented across scholarly research, creative writing, public discourse and social policy.

4:00pm – 5:30pm: Keynote: Kim Stanley Robinson – “Imagining a Good Anthropocene”

6:00pm: MAPP_MTL The Station de L’avenir: Projection mapping performance with Marc-Olivier Lamothe.