Decarbonizing Scholarship and Research: A Worldbuilding Workshop

You are invited to this online workshop!

From February 26 to March 1, the Re-Imagining Education (REC 5.0) Conference gathered practitioners, educators, researchers, healers, naturalists, artists, and many others in a beautiful, generative space of encounter. Over those days, they all shared education alternatives grounded in relationality, plurality, care, and responsibility to the more-than-human world.

Now, from REC 5.0 and the Ecoversities Alliance comes an open space called Mushrooming – a second flush of post-conference spacious co-learning, integration, and connection. If the conference was rain, Mushrooming is what begins to appear afterward.

Within this Mushrooming week, we are offering an invitation to a hands-on session: Decarbonizing Scholarship and Research: A Worldbuilding Workshop
🗓 Monday, March 9
⏰ 1:30–3:00 pm UTC (6:30 - 8 am MST)

This workshop asks: What would it mean to decarbonize scholarship – not just in infrastructure, but in how we imagine and practice research?

This session introduces a broader collaborative inquiry into reimagining the futures of scholarship and research in a time of planetary crisis. Drawing on the Manifesto on Decarbonizing Scholarship and Research, our recently published open-access article The Pedagogy of Manifesto Making, and an ongoing collaborative practice of worldbuilding through (An)archive, we invite you to join us in imagining futures of higher education beyond extractive, carbon-intensive logics. Together, we will consider how speculative and collective methods can move decarbonization beyond critique – toward experimentation, and, ultimately, shifts in scholarly practice.

The session will include a one-hour workshop, where participants are invited to engage in hands-on worldbuilding, collaboratively creating speculative artifacts that imagine futures of scholarship and research otherwise.

No prior experience is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to imagine beyond the present.

Rather than offering technocratic solutions, this space invites collaborative experimentation. What kinds of research practices become possible when we loosen the grip of extraction? What forms of scholarship emerge when we compost separation and cultivate interdependence?

We would love for you to join us! Register here to receive the Zoom link.

See you soon!

Facilitators: Iveta Silova, Laura Cechanowicz, Victoria Desimoni, Carrie Karsgaard, Dilraba Anayatova, Sandra Nabulega, Nicole Oster, Andrea Weinberg, Michelle Jordan, and Steven J. Zuiker.