For The Centre for Critical and Creative Writing (CCCW) 2022 Symposium – Wicked Problems and Speculative Futures: Writing the Anthropocene.

Abstract (excerpt)

In ecology, organisms stand higher chances of survival in refugia when their external environment is undergoing hostile conditions. In isolation, they reorganise their biological process to increase in numbers or strength until the disturbance abates. They must evolve to survive to gain a possible future.

This talk reflects upon and weaves together some of the stories emerging from our collaboration on REFUGIUM (2021), an Incinerator award-winning short film of speculative fiction in the climate emergency context, and activities of the Centre for Reworlding.