In November 2024, Pluto entered Aquarius, signaling a significant cosmic shift often associated with the dismantling of traditional hierarchies, the erosion of outdated systems, and the transformation of long-standing social structures and institutions. Aquarius is an unpredictable, disruptive, and visionary sign, typically associated with individuation, liberation, and progress. It governs group dynamics, community formations, friendships, collective movements, technological innovation, humanitarian causes, and people coming together to actualize a shared vision.

In the context of accelerating climate collapse, this session invites curators to speculate on new ways of living, working, and relating. Grounded in queer and transfeminist aesthetics, the conversation embraces the imaginary not as a form of escapism, but as a practice of resistance, remembrance, and reconfiguration. It moves beyond anthropocentric frameworks to consider how human and non-human life can coexist in mutual care and balance.

Through speculative worldbuilding, participants will engage with heterotopias, spells, and poetic tools to conjure futures rooted in interdependence and radical imagination. By crafting diverse scenarios for what lies ahead, this discussion asks: How can curatorial and artistic practices generate non-linear imaginaries in response to overlapping permacrises? What roles do queer and transfeminist aesthetics, performance, poetry, the body, and the senses play in reshaping perception and desire? And ultimately, can speculation serve as a form of resistance.