https://www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/representation/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=AuroPractices and Politics of Representation - User contributions [en-gb]2026-09-20T03:10:41ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.1https://www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/representation/index.php?title=One_Forest,_Many_Species:_Understanding_Spatial_Imaginations_in_Postcolonial_Science_Fiction&diff=522One Forest, Many Species: Understanding Spatial Imaginations in Postcolonial Science Fiction2026-04-09T13:23:34Z<p>Auro: I added the course material</p>
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<div>One Forest, Many Species: Understanding Spatial Imaginations in Postcolonial Science Fiction interrogates the entanglements of spatiality, power, and ecology in speculative narratives of art, film, literature, and music. This course foregrounds science fiction as a site of contested knowledges, where colonial imagined geographies are unsettled through fugitive architectures, alien ecologies, and diasporic temporalities. Students will explore how speculative world-building disrupts hegemonic spatial paradigms, offering counter-cartographies that reimagine planetary cohabitation. Through transdisciplinary inquiry, the course situates speculative fiction as both a method and praxis for radical spatial imaginaries in an era of polycrisis. The project interrogates the intersections of spatiality, power, and speculative futures, challenging entrenched epistemologies and hegemonic structures. Students will engage in critical-creative practices, analysing how speculative narratives destabilize dominant spatial orders and propose alternative forms of coexistence. Through collaborative inquiry, participants will explore how speculative aesthetics and insurgent spatial praxes can dismantle extractive paradigms and articulate new modes of planetary relationality. Proof of academic achievement in this module is demonstrated through consistent engagement and the successful completion of a final exhibition. Regular participation is mandatory, as the course emphasizes collaborative learning, critical discourse, and hands-on creation. Students are expected to actively contribute to discussions, workshops, and group projects, showcasing their ability to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives from art, architecture, film, and literature. Assessment criteria include the depth of critical reflection, and the ability to articulate transdisciplinary cultural practices. The exhibition serves as both a collective and individual report to the participants on the course’s theoretical and practical dimensions.<br />
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Course material-<br />
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Short Stories<br />
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1. Sultana’s Dream - Begum Rokeya- 1905<br />
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2. Bloodchild-Octavia E. Butler-1984<br />
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3. The Great Silence- Ted Chiang- 2015<br />
<br />
4. Things We Lost in Fire- Marina Enriquez- 2016<br />
<br />
5. The City Born Great- N.K Jesmin- 2016<br />
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6. The ThoughtBox- Tlotlo Tsamaase- 2020<br />
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7. The Bird Catcher- S.P. Somtow- 1989<br />
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8. No Windmills in Basra (Selected Works) -Diaa Jubaili- 2022<br />
<br />
Play<br />
<br />
1. Piano Lesson – August Wilson- 1987<br />
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Fims<br />
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1. Eureka - Lisandro Alonso – 2023<br />
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2. Hirak Rajar Deshe- Satyajit Ray- 1980<br />
<br />
3. Atlantique- Mati Diop- 2019<br />
<br />
4. The Last Angel of History- John Akomfrah- 1996<br />
<br />
5. Dreams- Akira Kurosawa-1990<br />
<br />
6. Vai- Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Miria George, Ofa Guttenbeil, Marina McCartney (director as Marina Alofagia McCartney), Nicole Whippy and Sharon Whippy- 2019<br />
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7. Bardo-Alejandro González Iñárritu-2022<br />
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8. In the future they ate from the finest porcelain-Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind-2016<br />
<br />
Music<br />
<br />
1. Tongues-Tanya Tagaq-2021<br />
<br />
2. Antifa Dance-Ana Tijoux-2021<br />
<br />
3. This is not America- Residente- 2024<br />
<br />
4. Alkisah- Senyawa-2020<br />
<br />
5. Ghost Island- Meuko! Meuko! -2018<br />
<br />
6. Tapestry from an Asteroid-Sun Ra-1967<br />
<br />
7. Enjoy Enjaami-Dhee ft Arivu-2021<br />
<br />
8. Kraut-Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki-2022<br />
<br />
Scientific Texts<br />
<br />
1. Race After Technology -Introduction- Ruha Benjamin- 2019<br />
<br />
2. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence-2023 <br />
<br />
3. Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom-Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument-Sylvia Wynter-2003<br />
<br />
4. Un-Earthing Extractive Architectures- Macarena Gómez-Barris-2023<br />
<br />
5. Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth-Elizabeth DeLoughrey-2014<br />
<br />
6. The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner- Saidiya Hartman-2018<br />
<br />
7. Our Sea of Islands-Epeli Hau'ofa-1994<br />
<br />
8. Manifesto for Cyborgs Science Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s-Donna J. Haraway-1985<br />
<br />
9. Decolonialism of the Far Right-Miri Davidson-2024<br />
<br />
10. Postcolonialism and Science Fiction-Introduction-Jessica Langer-2011<br />
<br />
Mona Mahall, Arijit Bhattacharyya<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Link 1]]<br />
* [[Link 2]]<br />
* [[Link 3]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
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[[index.php?title=Category:Course]]</div>Aurohttps://www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/representation/index.php?title=One_Forest,_Many_Species:_Understanding_Spatial_Imaginations_in_Postcolonial_Science_Fiction&diff=521One Forest, Many Species: Understanding Spatial Imaginations in Postcolonial Science Fiction2026-04-09T13:22:34Z<p>Auro: I added the course material</p>
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<div>One Forest, Many Species: Understanding Spatial Imaginations in Postcolonial Science Fiction interrogates the entanglements of spatiality, power, and ecology in speculative narratives of art, film, literature, and music. This course foregrounds science fiction as a site of contested knowledges, where colonial imagined geographies are unsettled through fugitive architectures, alien ecologies, and diasporic temporalities. Students will explore how speculative world-building disrupts hegemonic spatial paradigms, offering counter-cartographies that reimagine planetary cohabitation. Through transdisciplinary inquiry, the course situates speculative fiction as both a method and praxis for radical spatial imaginaries in an era of polycrisis. The project interrogates the intersections of spatiality, power, and speculative futures, challenging entrenched epistemologies and hegemonic structures. Students will engage in critical-creative practices, analysing how speculative narratives destabilize dominant spatial orders and propose alternative forms of coexistence. Through collaborative inquiry, participants will explore how speculative aesthetics and insurgent spatial praxes can dismantle extractive paradigms and articulate new modes of planetary relationality. Proof of academic achievement in this module is demonstrated through consistent engagement and the successful completion of a final exhibition. Regular participation is mandatory, as the course emphasizes collaborative learning, critical discourse, and hands-on creation. Students are expected to actively contribute to discussions, workshops, and group projects, showcasing their ability to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives from art, architecture, film, and literature. Assessment criteria include the depth of critical reflection, and the ability to articulate transdisciplinary cultural practices. The exhibition serves as both a collective and individual report to the participants on the course’s theoretical and practical dimensions.<br />
<br />
<br />
Course material-<br />
<br />
<br />
Short Stories<br />
<br />
1. Sultana’s Dream - Begum Rokeya- 1905<br />
<br />
2. Bloodchild-Octavia E. Butler-1984<br />
<br />
3. The Great Silence- Ted Chiang- 2015<br />
<br />
4. Things We Lost in Fire- Marina Enriquez- 2016<br />
<br />
5. The City Born Great- N.K Jesmin- 2016<br />
<br />
6. The ThoughtBox- Tlotlo Tsamaase- 2020<br />
<br />
7. The Bird Catcher- S.P. Somtow- 1989<br />
<br />
8. No Windmills in Basra (Selected Works) -Diaa Jubaili- 2022<br />
<br />
Play<br />
<br />
1. Piano Lesson – August Wilson- 1987<br />
<br />
Fims<br />
<br />
1. Eureka - Lisandro Alonso – 2023<br />
<br />
2. Hirak Rajar Deshe- Satyajit Ray- 1980<br />
<br />
3. Atlantique- Mati Diop- 2019<br />
<br />
4. The Last Angel of History- John Akomfrah- 1996<br />
<br />
5. Dreams- Akira Kurosawa-1990<br />
<br />
6. Vai- Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Miria George, Ofa Guttenbeil, Marina McCartney (director as Marina Alofagia McCartney), Nicole Whippy and Sharon Whippy- 2019<br />
<br />
7. Bardo-Alejandro González Iñárritu-2022<br />
<br />
8. In the future they ate from the finest porcelain-Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind-2016<br />
<br />
Music<br />
<br />
1. Tongues-Tanya Tagaq-2021<br />
<br />
2. Antifa Dance-Ana Tijoux-2021<br />
<br />
3. This is not America- Residente- 2024<br />
<br />
4. Alkisah- Senyawa-2020<br />
<br />
5. Ghost Island- Meuko! Meuko! -2018<br />
<br />
6. Tapestry from an Asteroid-Sun Ra-1967<br />
<br />
7. Enjoy Enjaami-Dhee ft Arivu-2021<br />
<br />
8. Kraut-Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki-2022<br />
<br />
Scientific Texts<br />
<br />
1. Race After Technology -Introduction- Ruha Benjamin- 2019<br />
<br />
2. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence- <br />
<br />
3. Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom-Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument-Sylvia Wynter-2003<br />
<br />
4. Un-Earthing Extractive Architectures- Macarena Gómez-Barris-2023<br />
<br />
5. Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth-Elizabeth DeLoughrey-2014<br />
<br />
6. The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner- Saidiya Hartman-2018<br />
<br />
7. Our Sea of Islands-Epeli Hau'ofa-1994<br />
<br />
8. Manifesto for Cyborgs Science Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s-Donna J. Haraway-1985<br />
<br />
9. Decolonialism of the Far Right-Miri Davidson-2024<br />
<br />
10. Postcolonialism and Science Fiction-Introduction-Jessica Langer-2011<br />
<br />
Mona Mahall, Arijit Bhattacharyya<br />
<br />
[[File:Place holder.jpg|frameless|201x201px]] [[File:Place holder.jpg|frameless|201x201px]] [[File:Place holder.jpg|frameless|201x201px]]<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[Link 1]]<br />
* [[Link 2]]<br />
* [[Link 3]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
== External Links ==<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
*[https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/ Bauhaus University Weimar]<br />
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