Technology is transforming environments and people all over the world. How do African writers imagine its impacts on the continent and beyond? Who are the artists and filmmakers who are shaping the conversation about science and technology from within Africa or its global diaspora?
Applied African SF runs workshops and seminars, and creates resources, exploring futures shaped by AI, automation, synthetic biology, surveillance capitalism, space exploration, nanotechnology and integration into the global industrial economy.
Are you interested in learning more about African speculative cultures and how they can be leveraged to shape the future?
Watch recordings of our previous seminars:
The Satellite Charmer Extractivism and the Larger Geopolitics – From Fact to Fiction or the Other Way Around
Exploring the Politics of International Research through Fiction with Aisha Phoenix
Using serious games in exploring the politics of sustainability
Speculation as Activism: Genres of Resistance, Hope and Reality in sub-Saharan African Literary Landscapes
Art and Science: The Marriage of Figaro with Eugen Bacon
A matter of perspective: confronting the racialised imaginary to create STEM policy. Florence Okoye
Afrofutures and Aquatic Worlds in Contemporary Art with Bergit Arends
Dilman Dila asks: ‘Can Science Fiction Engineer Social Development of Africa?’
Layout based on designs by Jana Kleineberg
Implementation by Stephen Embleton and Jana Kleineberg