For our first installation of tala Open House, we hosted a community space at rift gallery, gathering environmentalists, storytellers, artists, and community organizers to talk about speculative design and our climate futures, proposing collective dreaming, world-building and imagination as sites of resistance.

Beyond restating NGO climate campaign calls or sharing artistic interpretations of a world in peril, what might interdisciplinary gatherings like this offer? We proposed that it is politically necessary to gather and reclaim our agency amidst the realities of climate change and a national energy emergency through a safe space that allows us to grieve the current socio-ecological landscape, articulate our visions for the future beyond our fields, and build with our hands imagined artifacts of a more just future.

Access our Just Futures Artifacts Library here.