Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature - Introducing the Entangled Time Tree

Summary

The ‘Entangled Time Tree’ is a futuring tool rooted in the past. Conventional methods treat the future as “a projection of current trends”; drawing on African oral storytelling and Africanfuturism, six researchers argue a decolonial approach must “consider a multiplicity of pasts that lead to diverse presents and futures”, with “stories as power, stories as healing, and stories as diversification”.

Rationale

Culture, we argue, moves in messy, emergent ways rather than straight lines. This tool brings that to futuring, where projecting current trends is still the habit.

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