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Chiara Di Leone is a writer and researcher on economic narratives, anticipatory governance, and climate interventions, among other things. For this first session of Sandbox✦, she gave insight into an evolving critique of the meta-narrative of imagination itself in political-ecological and aesthetic discourse.

Science fiction and imaginaries about futures (plural) are ubiquitous not only in arts and culture, (see the entire dedicated genre of speculative design) but also at the governmental and corporate levels with the widespread use of scenario planning. At the same time, planet Earth - and its rapidly changing climate — is converging toward a catastrophic, near inevitable future (singular). Why is it that while exercises in imagination are ever more widespread, the actual window of possibilities is more and more narrow?

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