The eighth and final episode of Reflector features two Speculative Energy Futures projects – Banners and Earth Fortunes. “What’s Up Ahead” refers to both the Banners project’s invocation of billboards […]
S6E7 Reflector: Satire & Systems
Episode seven of Reflector focusses on three interlinked SEF projects that developed over a number of years and settings: Energy Emergency Repair Kit (EERK), Paromancy, and Notes from the Energetic […]
S6E6 Reflector: Plants Matter
In this episode Sheena and Patrick look at SEF’s “green” projects to consider how plants and planting show us ways that science and everyday culture can productively intersect, and how […]
S6E5 Reflector: Play & Transformation
In this episode Sheena and Patrick look at Speculative Energy Futures’ game-related projects to think about how we might take on various “new worlds”, and explore playful immersion as a […]
S6E4 Reflector 4: Storytelling
In this Episode SEF team members writer Lisa Moore (Memorial University), artist Sean Caulfiled (University of Alberta), Sheena Wilson and Patrick Mahon talk about a short story collection and a […]
S6E3 Reflector: Indigenous Knowledge Bundles
In this episode knowledge keeper Kurtis McAdam enlarges on our understanding of indigenous bundles through a mix of story-telling, teaching and song, and helps us articulate a link between traditional […]
S6E2 Reflector: Bundle
In Reflector 2, Sheena Wilson and Patrick Mahon focus on two interlinked SEF projects. Four members of the Speculative Energy Futures team, arist and professor Ruth Beer (Emily Carr University) […]
S6E1 Reflector: Speculative Energy Futures
In the sixth series of the Just Powers Podcast, entitled Reflector, host Sheena Wilson and co-host Patrick Mahon discuss the multi-year, interdisciplinary project Speculative Energy Futures. The episode explores the […]
S5E4 – NET-ZERO NEIGHBOURS: THE NORTH GLENORA PROJECT
In this episode, guest-hosts Dr. Sara Dorow, professor of sociology (University of Alberta), and project research assistant Rezvaneh Erfani talk about Canada’s first ever net-zero multifamily social housing project. The […]
S5E3 – NET-ZERO NEIGHBOURS: THE BLATCHFORD PROJECT
In this episode, recorded in early 2021, Sheena Wilson sits down with two project managers for Blatchford, a net-zero real estate development on the site of the old Edmonton City […]