Just Futures? Approaching Cultural Climate Models

FWF project (project number I 6655)
Project duration 01.06.2023 - 31.05.2026
Approval amount € 206,256

The international research project ‘Just Futures?’, led by Prof Dr Julia Hoydis and Prof Dr David Higgins, is concerned with the images of the future that people develop in the context of the climate crisis. The project, funded with a total of 750,000 euros, aims to bring humanities perspectives into climate research and to shed light on the perception of intergenerational conflicts and intergenerational action. The project group brings together literary studies, linguistics, science and technology studies and didactics to investigate how different types of text, i.e. cultural forms such as literature, social media and teaching materials, move between descriptive statements on climate change (‘models of’) and normative conclusions (‘models for’). The interdisciplinary approach is intended to develop innovative methods for analysing ideas about the future that are also relevant for other disciplines.

 

Project website:  https://www.cultural-climate-models.org/