Cocooning: Dreaming Adaptation
April 2 | 11:00 - 14:00
Clusters: Speculative Life
Cocooning is a 3-hour workshop dreaming (climate) adaptation through embodied methods.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
In a time of ecological instability, climate adaptation is often organized through techno-economic solutions that map protection onto some geographies while leaving others exposed. These approaches frequently reproduce colonial cartographies and patterns of environmental racism.
This gathering opens space to question those limits. Together, we will dream adaptation as a relational, embodied, and collective practice — a process of re-membering frayed relations and re-mapping how we live with one another across borders and boundaries, between human and more-than-human worlds.
WHAT TO BRING:
Participants are asked to bring one item they are willing to part with, to be woven into the installation:
- A small meaningful object (e.g., a shell, old necklace, small keepsake), or
- An old natural fibre in neutral tones (fabric scrap, clothing, lace, sheet, etc.) to contribute to the collective cocoon
Objects will become part of the installation.
No prior artistic experience is required. Light snacks and coffee will be provided.
This workshop is organized by the Concordia Ethnography Lab in collaboration with the Youth Climate Lab.
April 2, 2026
11 -2 PM
Speculative Life EV 10.625
