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Josie Chambers

@jochamb.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @ Urban Futures Studio, Utrecht University | Artistic & political ways of transforming collective imagination | Musician | Blogger @ Utopian Pulses — experiments in social dreaming

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 27/03/2026
Join us on Thursday 2 April for our next Designing Sustainable Worlds hybrid seminar at Norwich University of the Arts—we'll be joined by @jochamb.bsky.social from @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social, and Sarah de Villiers from Architecture at Norwich Everyone welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-...
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Designing Sustainable Worlds: Art and Architecture of Reimagining Futures
Guest speakers: Josie Chambers and Sarah de Villiers. Online and in-person in Norwich.
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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 26/03/2026
Very excited to have this little @nightjarpress.bsky.social story out in the world nightjarpress.weebly.com/halls-of-res... — sitting alongside three other new Nightjars. Thanks @nicholasroyle.bsky.social!
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Halls of Residence
Halls of Residence Dan Lockton Author bio Cover photograph: Nicholas Royle ISBN 978-1-917965-06-4 ​ Publication date: March 2026
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Still can't believe I work at a department that can pull off Bohemian Rhapsody, as just one song of a 3 hour set last night by The Copernicats—an open jam group of 30 researchers. We had guitar, bass, keys, drums, flute, sax, cello, accordion, melodica, cowbell, tambourine, and 20 singers!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today we launched the 3rd rendition of The Creative Collectives for Utopia zine: 𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. Read it here: www.uu.nl/en/research/.... So proud of our master’s students for producing such a brilliant zine which shares six situations to provoke imagination of possible futures.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New utopian pulse is out! 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a... This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
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AI images for dreaming or ghosting?
There is much to say about the implications of using AI to depict so-called better worlds, with already numerous critiques of bias, labour exploitation, and energy unsustainability. Or even worse, the...
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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Read the new #UtopianPulses blogpost ‘AI Images for dreaming or ghosting?’ where @jochamb.bsky.social invites us into an experiment with students, who were asked to choose an emerging technology and use AI to generate images of two possible futures in 2060. www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a...
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AI images for dreaming or ghosting?
There is much to say about the implications of using AI to depict so-called better worlds, with already numerous critiques of bias, labour exploitation, and energy unsustainability. Or even worse, the...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Registrations are now open for our PhD course “Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges”, to be held for the 5th time at Wageningen University April 20 – May 1, 2026. Apply by October 31! There are also partial scholarships for Global South based applicants! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join us in the Playground at Utrecht University next Friday Sept 26 to launch the Library for Transformative Play! It is the product of 4 years of collaborations within the Playing with the Trouble team, funded by CUCo. Sign up here, It's open to all! unusualcollaborations.ewuu.nl/agenda/playi...
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alterotopia.bsky.social @alterotopia.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Dear fellow trouble-dancer, we are thrilled to share our very first Alterotopian update with you! If you missed the launch of our website, discover how we are Resonating, Raging, and Figuring in #Alterotopia: alterotopia.com
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Alterotopia - alterotopia.com
Alterotopia, a place to explore power, transformative change and radical belonging through creative encounters
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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/07/2025
The amazing @jochamb.bsky.social and I got married last week! Thanks to all our family and friends for making it such a special day for us ❤️
Two people walking in a garden, very much in loveTwo people being showered with confetti, very much in loveTwo people getting marries, very much in love
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So wonderful to finally receive my TWIG (The What If Garden) zine in the mail today—A Field Guide to Radical Imagination! Check it out here: lnkd.in/dw8i2AJv. An output of the Lorentz workshop we hosted in January: Unlocking the Imagination: Art-Science for Radical"!
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last week we kicked off the 4th rendition of our Transformative Research PhD course at Utrecht University! It's been a pleasure getting to know this wonderful group of passionate researchers exploring how to push the boundaries of their research practice. Looking forward to the second week together!
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New Utopian Pulse out!—introducing the newly released Utopia*Art*Politics Collection and also new #electronic #atmospheric #triphop song created with the brilliant Noor Noor: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t.... The collection seeks to revitalise our utopian imagination and politics. Cover art: Felipe Viveros
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The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection
The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...
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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
| Blog | Read @jochamb.bsky.social new blog post where she introduces the Utopia*Art*Politics Collection; a multi-media collection of provocations and insights by 33 artist-researcher-practitioners who participated in the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions last year: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...
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The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection
The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...
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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 27/03/2025
What should an 'Institute for Sustainable Worlds' do? I wrote some initial thoughts about what we're trying at Norwich University of the Arts: architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2025/03/26/c...
A view towards Agricultural Hall Plain, Norwich, from the top floor of 20 Bank Plain. It is a misty morning with the sun visible through the mist. Cars are queuing to cross a junction with a Boer War memorial of a bronze angel on it.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The time is finally here to apply for our Urban Futures Studio summer school 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵, organised by wonderful colleagues Jeroen Oomen, Tim Stacey & Maarten Hajer! @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social Apply by April 1st! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New Utopian Pulse out @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social: The perils of foretelling the future: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t.... My effort to make sense of recent struggles, from Trump's re-election and spread of populism across Europe, to deepening rifts among pessimistic & optimistic outlooks in the classroom
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The perils of foretelling the future
For the opening keynote for the 16th Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference, Josie Chambers chose not to focus on the dominant ways people have been co-producing knowledge and action for sust...
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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
| Blog | "We have been so busy recovering from the recent pandemic of the body, that we have been blind to the growing pandemic of the #imagination" Read @jochamb.bsky.social 's new blog post: The perils of foretelling the #future www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...
Book cover, with blue artwork, of 'The left hand of darkness' by Ursula Le Guin.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Join us for the public lecture 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬? Together we will map the emotional landscape of climate conversations. 📅 Jan 29, 5-6:30pm + drinks 📍 Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden More details here! rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/te-zien-te-d...
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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 31/12/2024
Just in the nick of time, I blew the cobwebs off the blog and finished a post / newsletter looking back at some projects from 2024 — read it here: architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2024/12/31/2... or subscribe to the newsletter: buttondown.email/imaginaries
Around 15 orange and yellow illuminated coloured acrylic "Sunrise" and "Sunset" discs in a frame, with a video of a sunset projected over them. The discs have drawings or paintings on them of things including a tree, a diagram of the earth with arrows around it, and an abstract zig-zag star pattern.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
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Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
As part of our Transformative Research PhD course last May, Aisha So wrote & illustrated a fantastic story to explore doubt and tensions in research. It won a special award for combining art and academia at EASST-4S, and is now online! Huge congratulations to Aisha!! www.uu.nl/en/news/aish...
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Aisha So’s illustrated story wins special award for combining art and academia
PhD candidate Aisha So has won a special prize for her short story that blends creativity with reflective insights on transformative research.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So wonderful performing with the Copernicats yesterday, the open jam group at our institute -- 20 colleagues performed together across a spectacular two hour set! 🔥
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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hi 👋 We're new at #Bluesky and just getting to know this platform. In the meantime, if you want to know more about us, you could sign up for our quarterly newsletter. #comingsoon mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...
People holding up protest signs in Dutch saying 'Hope', 'A new era', appetite for the future', 'Here is where I want to be', etc.
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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Made a starter pack with a juicy mix of people working on imagination, (embodied) imaginal practice, futures and more. go.bsky.app/G69gDx3
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great to launch the 2nd edition of the Creative Collectives for Utopia zine: Visions of Better Worlds, made by students of the MSc course Imagining the Future for Transformation. It shares futuring approaches co-produced with 6 initiatives around the world. Check it out! www.uu.nl/en/research/...
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İdil Gaziulusoy @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Applications are now open for our #Creative #Sustainability master’s program. www.aalto.fi/en/creative-... @aaltouniversity.bsky.social
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How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme | Aalto University
How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme
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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We are living in troubling times. It is difficult to make sense of all interacting logics. That is why I was touched by this profoundly insightful statement by #amitavghosh on the acceptance of the #erasmusprize Highly recommendable. Thanks, @amitav.bsky.social erasmusprijs.org/prijswinnaar...
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Erasmusprijswinnaars - Stichting Praemium Erasmianum
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A must read by @amitav.bsky.social for 'a time of monstrous anomalies, when exterminal violence...can play out on live television...entire cities can be swept away by flash floods...environmental activists receive longer jail sentences than corporate criminals' erasmusprijs.org/prijswinnaar...
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Erasmusprijswinnaars - Stichting Praemium Erasmianum
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What could it mean to foster an 'emotional democracy'? public-mediation.nl/soc24/ Great contributions by Urban Futures Studio colleagues Christina Klubert & Tim Stacey!
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State of conflict conference 2024 - Public Mediation
Theme 2024: ‘Emotional Democracy’ Above you can watch the recap of the ’24 edition of the State of Conflict. Below you will find the original conference description of this years ...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Two great book recommendations from Amitav Ghosh yesterday in Utrecht—that challenge the search for easy solutions (left) and how we tell stories (right). He reminds us: "climate does not do the work of politics!"
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This piece probably has something for everyone, so read if you look for inspiration.
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
REVIEW: The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World … Essays, by David Graeber lareviewofbooks.org/article/anar...
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Anarchism and Principle of Play | Los Angeles Review of Books
Steven Shaviro reviews David Graeber’s posthumous essay collection “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …”
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Just wrapped up the 2nd rendition of the MSc course Imagining the Future for Transformation! It teaches students to critically examine dynamics that narrow possible futures and co-design ways of opening up imagination with society. Course guide & collective playlist here: www.uu.nl/en/research/...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
This new catalogue of transformative university practices in the climate crisis by Lisette van Beek has so many great examples in it, related to mobilizing citizens, imagining alternative futures, blurring art/academia/activism, and more! www.uu.nl/sites/defaul...
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Thrilled that we will host our PhD course "Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges" for the 4th time at Utrecht University May 12-23, 2025. Just one week left to apply—deadline is November 7! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci... And we offer scholarships for PhDs in the global south.
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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
After a bit of a social media hiatus following the death of Twitter, looking forward to reconnecting with people here!
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