Imagining Just Futures: A conversation on science, education, forms of justice, and worlds in the making
The future is not something that happens to us. It is built in classrooms, in laboratories, in community centres, in collectives, in the stories we tell about science, in the questions we allow students to ask, and dare to ask ourselves, and in those we silence or never think to raise. Every pedagogy is already a choice about what kind of world we are making possible and what interruptions and wonderings we are engaging with. Join us for an open conversation with diverse voices across Global North and South contexts, at the intersection of science, pedagogy, justice, and collective flourishing. Through dialogue, we will explore how scientists and science educators are already enacting just futures in their work, and ask: how do we cultivate the imagination to build the worlds we need?
Whether you work, study, or want to reflect on science, education, sustainability, engineering, geography, psychology, politics, or somewhere in between, if you are curious about how knowledge, power, and pedagogy shape our collective futures, this conversation is for you. This isn't a lecture. It's a collective act of thinking out loud. A live illustrator will capture ideas as they emerge, and we'll close by co-creating a manifesto together with everyone in the room for what science and education for just futures could be.
Come ready to listen, to question, and to imagine.
Programme
14:00 – 14:05 — Opening: Eduarda Boing Pinheiro and Yang Zhang
14:05 – 15:00 — Conversations with speakers:
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dr. Haira Gandolfi - University of Cambridge
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prof. Laura Colucci-Gray - University of Edinburgh
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dr. Paulina Bravo Gonzalez - Universidad Católica del Maule
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prof. Sara Tolbert - Monash University
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Facilitators: dr. Betzabé Torres Olave and prof. Lucy Avraamidou
15:00 – 15:45 — Questions and small group discussions
15:45 – 16:15 — Open plenary
16:15 – 17:00 — Drinks, nibbles, and continuing the conversation with open spaces for connection between speakers, facilitators, and attendees
This event is part of JustCLIma, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research project (Grant Agreement No. 101208591) led by Dr Betzabe Torres Olave. Learn more via Cordis
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