Recommended Event

As part of our ongoing exploration of innovative pedagogical approaches, we’re highlighting an event that exemplifies how critical and artistic pedagogies can transform educational practice and foster cultural awareness.

The Intersectional Futurisms: Navigating Margins, Disrupting Norms seminar offers an arts-based seminar model designed as a face-to-face two-day transdisciplinary (artistic-scientific) gathering taking place November 5-6, 2025, at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Organized by Samira Ibnelkaïd and Iuliia Avgustis, this event brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to engage critically with marginalization, anti-colonial praxis, and futurism, grounded in various intersectional futurisms including Afrofuturism, queer futurism, Indigenous futurism, crip futurism, and eco-futurism. 

The seminar brings together diverse formats -talks, performances, multimedia projects, etc.- that examine the intersections of oppression, resilience, creativity and agency in both digital and embodied practices among marginalized communities. Participants will engage with speculative storytelling and artistic-scientific practices that challenge systemic inequities while imagining liberatory possibilities.

This seminar demonstrates transformative educational approaches in three key ways:

Experiential learning: Employs embodied, critical pedagogies using multiple sensory and creative modalities, moving beyond traditional lectures to emphasize learning through direct experience and reflection.

Decolonizing curriculum: Models institutional restructuring by dismantling Eurocentric frameworks and creating inclusive learning environments that honor diverse ways of knowing.

Critical pedagogy in practice: Centers marginalized voices and anti-oppressive frameworks, using education as a social justice tool that encourages critical examination of power structures while developing agency for positive change.