In this workshop co-directed by Anne Pasek (CRC in Media, Culture and the Environment at Trent University), Marcel O’Gorman, and Adan Jarrett-Poole, participants will work in groups to build a small solar power station and write/design a future world-building scenario for its deployment.
No technical or artistic expertise is required, but participants must be willing to think critically and creatively as they work in a supportive solar futures community.
Co-directors
Dr. Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor at Trent University, dividing her time between the Department of Cultural Studies and the Trent School of the Environment. Her work explores the environmental impacts of digital technologies, the cultural politics of climate change, and critical making/artistic practices that might provide new avenues through these tricky problems. Her books include Digital Energetics (Meson Press 2023) and Low-Carbon Research Methods (Goldsmiths, forthcoming 2025)
Dr. Marcel O'Gorman, University Research Chair, professor of English, and founding director of the Critical Media Lab (CML), University of Waterloo. Professor O'Gorman leads collaborative design projects and teaches courses and workshops in critical media studies and responsible innovation. He has published widely about the impacts of technology on society, and he has an international portfolio of exhibitions and performances.
Dr. Adan Jerreat-Poole is a queer/trans/crip writer and scholar. Their YA fantasy novels, The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass (2020) and The Boi of Feather and Steel (2021), were published with Dundurn Press. Their short fiction has appeared in Space and Time Magazine, The New Quarterly, Qwerty Magazine, and Soliloquies. Adan is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo working at the intersection of disability justice and digital media.
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