Science Festival: Utopias + climate = hope?

The utopia is the place of our dreams and ideals. Can human utopias be the way forward in the climate crisis? What happens when we embrace hope, instead of letting feelings of danger and loss control the narrative and image of our future? Could we then design a different future?

In this dialogue, literary scholars, social scientists, natural scientists, and engineers come together to share ideas about the future based on research studies and people's visions of the future. How do we live a good life in the future? Where will we live? What will we eat?

What does the scientists' own utopias look like?

Participants

• Camilla Brudin Borg, Associate Professor of Literature, University of Gothenburg,
• Kerstin Johannesson, Professor of Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg,
• Mattias Wahlström, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg,
• Hans Linderholm, Professor of Physical Geography, Climate Researcher, University of Gothenburg,
• Johan Holmén, PhD in Physical Resource Theory, Sustainable Transition and Learning, Chalmers University of Technology,
• Moderator: Annika Wall, communicators officer and author, University of Gothenburg.