A Poetics of Tomorrowing: Research as Storytelling

2026-06-10 10.06., 10:00–12:00, C12.101, Climate Futures Workshop

Using the film Cosmographies as a prompt, in this interactive workshop we discuss frameworks that blur the boundaries between research and storytelling for translating complex information into public engagement. Aimed at academic researchers, documentary filmmakers, science communicators, and graduate students, the workshop will run as a series of experimental improvisations for participants to design conceptual tools to translate empirical research into speculative narratives, moving beyond traditional data reporting to create affective, future-oriented storytelling. 

Juan Francisco Salazar is Director (Interim) of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University in Australia where is Professor of Media and Environment and past Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2020-2024). His latest books are the co-edited collection Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space (Routledge 2023); the co-authored book Antarctic Cities: From Gateways to Global Custodians (University of Nebraska Press,2026) and the authored book Space Futures Otherwise (forthcoming with Routledge). His latest film is Cosmographies (2025) a collaboration with artist Victoria Hunt and produced in collaboration with the Indigenous Lickanantay Community of Toconao in Chile.