coe douglas imagination / pataphysics / futures

Talks & Workshops

I regularly lead workshops that help community groups, organizations, corporations, and others imagine otherwise, use time-travel to anticpate the world to come, use their collective imaginations to see with new eyes and new (im)possibilities.

Reach out of you are interested.

Here are a few of the topics I provide.

Speaking at the 2025 Wisconsin Housing & Economic Authority (WHEDA) Conference: How Housing Happens | Photo Credit: Kylie Zochert

Impossible Futures

In this workshop format, we’ve explore the spiraling road that leads us to the the possibiliy of impossible futures. Because this is what we most need right now. Think about it. More of the same. More of what we have already been doing is going to lead to the same results.

Instead, we’ll pursue an horizon of presposterous impossibility.

Often times, what begins as a hyperbolic exercise with machines that can make any style of pizza from anywhere in the world and flying cars, tech that lets us talk with our dogs and

Justice. Peace. Clean water. A future without miroplastics. The erradiation of orever chemicals. An end of data enter expansion. Or, even simpler things: healthy food, affordable health care. More time. Less distraction. Walkable streets and communities. Mutual care.

“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.” — Sun Ra

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