Livable Futures fosters creative solutions to survival under planetary conditions of unpredictability and crisis. A multifaceted initiative, Livable Futures projects are collaborative, inclusive, and socially responsive.
We have a podcast, newsletter, online community and multiple creative projects, events, and workshops.
Livable Futures is emergent, growing and alive. The project is thick with intersecting ideas, shared strength, and wild deviations. Subscribe to stay in touch with new developments and join our community.
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Read regular posts from Livable Futures and participate in our growing community by subscribing for free at: livablefutures.substack.com. We share monthly posts with creative ideas for living in unstable times, turning toward climate change, humane technology, arts activism, and inclusive well being contributing to movements for adaptation and justice in transition.
Listen to our Podcast
Listen and join in practices shared by a generous and inspiring group of artists and other activists creating more livable futures and sharing their tactics to support thriving and turning toward the work at hand with all our creative capacities.
Find us wherever you get your podcasts including; Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or online!
Join your host Norah Zuniga Shaw (co-founder and artistic director of Livable Futures) as she takes you through interviews, audio walks, workshops, and sonic artworks turning toward planetary conditions of crisis and uncertainty with all our creative capacities.
Featured artists and activists:
Emalani Case on indigenous futures
Complex Movements on community futures
Michael Morris on queer posthuman futures
Andre M Zachery with Crystal Fuller on afrofutures
Alys Longley on futures of care
Faustin Linyekula on improvised futures
Amy Youngs with Candace Thompson on foraging futures
Plus an intro episode with NZShaw on livability vs sustainability
Coming into Community
Read about contributors to the LF COMMUNITY and get inspired by their visions for Livable Futures and the work they are doing.
Get ideas for your own community from our past PROJECTS and EVENTS created by this evolving network of artists, scholars
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A Few Acknowledgements:
We gratefully acknowledge lineages and inspirations including Black feminist creators and movement builders adrienne maree brown, Deray McKesson, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks, queer posthumanists Sara Ahmed, Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles and so many more.
Livable Futures was seeded by the Collaboration for Humane Technology in 2016 and co-founded in its current iteration in 2018 with the generous support of the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme of The Ohio State University as well as the Department of Dance, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2022.