New Temporary Program Announced: Monstrous Futurities Sandberg

Sandberg Instituut is happy to announce the new two-year Temporary Program starting in September 2025 titled Monstrous Futurities: Practices in (Un)learning, (Un)making, and (Un)worlding. Led by co-directors Romany Dear and Grace Turtle, it seeks to engage with monstrous imaginaries, their subversive potentialities and material and relational affects in the world through transdisciplinary practices.

MF proposes to collectively respond to the urgencies of troubled times, attuning to unfolding ecological, social, technological and political crises and the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and late-capitalism. We approach speculations and fabulations as a way to retain hope and hope-making practices, moving towards transitions, transformations and social-justice-activism(s).

Together, we will attend to interconnected struggles through minor gestures—re/imagining bodies, worlds, and futurities through process-led, curious, critical and speculative practices—dismantling normativities that keep the monstrous at bay. Working from intersectional perspectives, in dialogue with more-than-human, queer, crip theories and glitch, cyborg, black and trans feminisms—we attune to the im/possibilities of (un)worlding.

Read further about the program here.