The Temporal Imagination

Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer

How do our habits of living and working with time shape us and our societies? Can we play and work with time differently to make a better world? Join hosts Professor Keri Facer and Dr Michel Alhadeff-Jones as they bring together world-leading researchers and academics from six continents to explore how rethinking the ways we think with, work with and live in time could be the key to unlocking more liveable futures for people and planet. N.B: This podcast is also available with closed captions on the Sunkhronos Institute's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  1. 16.12.2025

    Episode 11: Imagining and Embodying Low-Carbon Futures

    In this episode, Keri and Michel are talking with historian of architecture Daniel Barber and Political Scientist and speculative world creator Johannes Stripple about the different ways we imagine a low-carbon future after fossil fuels, in particular, how we reimagine the relationships we have with the built environment.  Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Daniel Barber (Professor of History of Architecture, Eindhoven University of Technology)  Johannes Stripple (Associate Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden)  Summary In this episode, we are talking with historian of architecture Daniel Barber and Political Scientist and speculative world creator Johannes Stripple about the different ways we imagine a low-carbon future after fossil fuels, in particular, how we reimagine the relationships we have with the built environment. We touch on different sorts of speculation: inventing imaginary worlds, working practically with embodied relationships and the role of dreaming and longing. We explore how we might transform the rhythms of habitual practices as well as the rhythms of habitual ways of thinking.  References & Resources Mentioned Barbara Adam & Chris Groves (talk about ‘lived futures’ in their book ‘Future Matters’) Daniel Barber’s book ‘Modern Architecture and Climate Design before Air Conditioning’ and Paper ‘After Comfort” and project of uncomfortable room for Venice Biennale David Orr (great writer on education and hope and sustainability) Davina Cooper’s book: ‘Everyday utopias: the conceptual life of promising spaces’ Ernst Bloch and Ruth Levitas (on critical utopias - see Bloch’s ‘The Spirit of Utopia’ and Levitas on ‘Utopia as Method’) Gaston Pineau (pioneer of French-speaking research conducted on ‘eco-formation’ in adult education; see his work on the role of elements such as earth, air, fire, water in adults’ life histories) Jennifer Wenzel (talks about gentrification of the future, the alienocene)  Kim Stanley Robinson’s book: ‘2140 - a flooded future’  Maria Ojalo (and her work on critical hope) The future Museum exhibit mentioned is ‘Carbon Ruins’ The Rough Guide to Notterdam Stuart Candy & Jake Duggan (experiential futures) William Gibson (the great Scifi writer)  External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/  Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/  The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org  The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  2. 16.12.2025

    Episode 10: Temporal Resistances

    Keri and Michel talk about temporal violence, temporal politics and temporal resistance with three scholars working in land rights, transition disputes and disability rights in the UK, Colombia and South Africa.  Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Alison Oldfield (Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of BRistol) Heila Sisitka (Distinguished Research Chair, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa)  Astrid Ulloa (Professor of Anthropology, National University of Colombia) Summary In this episode, Keri and Michel talk with critical educators Heila Lotz Sisitka and Alison Oldfield and activist anthropologist Astrid Ulloa, about the relationship between time, politics and temporal justice. They explore how sensing into the complexities of the present in South Africa may open up spaces for new possibility knowledges to create just energy transitions; how colonial temporalities are being used (and resisted) in Indigenous territories in Colombia; and how disabled activists are making the case for ‘crip time’ to fundamentally rethink the temporal politics of engagement and consultation in relation to climate transition in the UK.  References & Resources Mentioned Alison Kafer’s book: ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’  Arturo Escobar’s  books referenced are: ‘Beyond Development’ and ‘Pluriversal Design’ (see also interview with Arturo in podcast 2 in this series) David Rooney book: ‘About Time: A history of civilisation in 12 clocks’  Deborah Bird-Rose (on multispecies knots of time)  Michelle Bastian (see episode 3 this series)  One Ocean Hub (ancestral time / seismic activity court case - https://oneoceanhub.org/i-took-my-ancestors-to-the-united-nations-and-shared-why-storytelling-is-the-sacred-medicine-ocean-governance-needs/) References to Frida Buhre, Matthew Scobie and Catherine Dussault’s paper on ‘Time Back & Indigenous Temporalities’ (Time & Society) External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/  Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org  The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University  Credits Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  3. 16.12.2025

    Episode 9: Caring for the Rhythms of Food Sovereignty

    Michel and Keri explore the theme of food sovereignty and time with guests Sidney Muhangi and Daniela De Fex-Wolf who share their insights from Colombia and South Africa. Hosts and Guests Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Sidney Muhangi (Early Career Researcher and postdoctoral scholar, ELRC, Rhodes University, South Africa) Daniela de Fex-Wolf (Biologist and Geographer, Early Career Researcher, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Columbia) Summary In this episode, Michel and Keri explore the theme of food sovereignty, and what it takes to sustain it from a temporal perspective. With their two guests, Sidney Muhangi and Daniela De Fex-Wolf, they focus on marginalized groups who must find their ways, between the respect of traditions and the development of new habits, and between the adverse effects of erratic climate changes and the increasing social demand for food, energy and consumption. Time is central to understanding what is at stake. On the one hand, climate resilience requires farmers and fishermen to nurture their knowledge of natural rhythms, and to develop their capacity to cope with the fluctuations that characterize climate change and their impact on human and non-human beings. On the other hand, they also must negotiate temporal pressures that come from governments and the economy to accelerate transformations in the way they live, work and interact with their natural environment.  References & Resources Mentioned Daniela De Fex-Wolf’s doctoral thesis (2023) is titled: Recovering Care Networks Through Food Sovereignty: A Case Study in Wayúu Communities, Colombia (Cardiff University). Declaration of Nyéléni (Forum for Food Sovereignty, 2007); see https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/  Sidney Muhangi’s doctoral thesis (2024) is titled: Investigating Occupation as frame for planning and developing Agricultural Extension VET skills for Climate Resilience: Cross-case analysis of Alice, South Africa, and Gulu, Uganda (Rhodes University). External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere  To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

    54 Min.

  4. 16.12.2025

    Episode 8: Time and the Arts, Food and Colonialism

    Keri and Michel talk to artist-scholars, the poet Rukmini Nair and the photographer Nomusa Makhubu about the relationship between time, art and coloniality. Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Rukmini Nair (Honorary Professor of Linguistics and English, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University, Londo)  Nomusa Makhubu (Professor in Art History at the University of Cape Town; Founder of Creative Knowledge Resources) Summary In this episode, Keri and Michel talk with two award-winning artists and scholars - the poet and critic Professor Rukmini Nair and the photographer and art historian Professor Nomusa Makhubu. In this wide ranging conversation we talk about time as a relentless life partner, the role of colonial photography in deploying time to objectify subjugated people, the ancient form of poetry as a place of craziness that serves as a place of sanity to mirror the world, the long shadow of colonialism, the gaps in history into which new stories can be inserted, the role of art and poetry as survival mechanisms for settlers and colonised, statues as a way of freezing time, on whether hunger is located in the past, present or future, the training of guts to create new expectations of food, the idea of Indigenous food - plants and practices - ‘going extinct’ and how tastes change across time. The longstanding question of how we feed into the rhythms of what bodies need.  (There are some difficulties with audio on Professor Makhubu’s recording at the beginning of the recording, but this improves so do stick with this episode, there are some real gems in here.) References & Resources Mentioned Knut Hamsun’s novel that Rukmini Nair refers to is ‘Hunger’  Lerato Shadi’s video work referenced is ‘Motlhaba Wa Re Ke Namile’ (2016) Liz Hoult’s chapter on ‘doing time in social sciences and humanities research ‘- talks about chronolectic time, killing time Nomusa Makhubu’s work with the colonial archive: https://asai.co.za/collective-healing-nomusa-makhubu/ Olufela Omokeko’s Jeun Soke project Nomusa references: https://mobkilishi.shop/blogs/news/a-taste-of-tradition-the-unveiling-of-the-jeun-soke-project?srsltid=AfmBOoq4G5EtxLRej52Op4vTdIVQi-PL4x5COedWbL-FCVTvMsxhGEcz  Rukmini Nair’s books mentioned are: ‘Poetry in a Time of Terror; Lying on the Post-Colonial Couch’: The Idea of Indifference; and (co-edited with Peter de Souza) ‘Keywords for India’ Michael Stevenson’s book ‘Surviving the Lens’ The British author Rukmini mentions is David Lodge Nomusa Makhubu’s exhibition is called ‘Trading Lies’ External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits Hosts: Keri Facer & Michel Alhadeff-Jones Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  5. 16.12.2025

    Episode 7: Indigenous Times and Temporalities

    Keri and Michel talk about Indigenous temporalities and the case for ‘Time Back’ with scholars Frida Buhre, Catherine Dussault and Matthew Scobie.  Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Frida Buhre (is Sami and Swedish, Assistant Professor in Literature and Rhetoric, University of Uppsala, Norway) Catherine Dussault (is a member of the Wendat First nation and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada) Matthew Scobie (is Ngāi Tahu and Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAITAHA) Summary In this episode, Keri & Michel explore the question of Indigenous temporalities with leading Indigenous scholars Frida Buhre, Catherine Dussault and Matthew Scobie - exploring how they are making the case for ‘time back’ alongside Indigenous calls for ‘land back’ in Sami, Maori and Nunavik territories. They explore the way that treaties structure and construct particular times, the role of storytelling as temporal intergenerational practice, and the importance of disrupting linear temporal frames in processes of knowledge production.  References & Resources Mentioned Frida Buhre’s paper referenced is ‘Braiding Time, Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice’ Linnea Axelsson’s book is  ‘Aednan’ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, see in particular: ‘A Theory of Water’  Mamadou Diouff Paper by Matthew Scobie, Frida Buhre & Catherine Dussault on ‘Time back’ is published in the journal ‘Time & Society’ Nick Estes’s book: ‘Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance’ Labba’s artwork External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits Hosts: Keri Facer & Michel Alhadeff-Jones  Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  6. 16.12.2025

    Episode 6: Rhythms of the City and Environmental Transitions

    Michel and Keri talk about the reorganisation of everyday rhythms of the city with urban scholar Zarina Patel and legal scholar Bronwen Morgan, touching on their work in Cape Town and Sydney.  Hosts and Guests Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Bronwen Morgan (Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Zarina Patel (Associate Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town)  Summary In this episode, Michel and Keri explore, with their guests, Bronwen Morgan and Zarina Patel, how daily rhythms – such as those involved in mobility – express and determine how people experience space and time in the city. At the scale of the everyday, envisioning social and environmental transitions implies to renegotiate how such rhythms relate to each other. It questions which rhythms should be privileged and which ones are marginalized. Because the reorganization of everyday rhythms involves actors with different institutions and agendas (e.g., policy makers, private sectors, citizens), challenging everyday rhythms also raises critical questions about who has the power to influence the pace and tempo that organize and transform cities, and how power dynamics expressed through conflicting rhythms may be negotiated. References & Resources Mentioned  Mbiti, J.S.1969 article African Religions and Philosophy E. Glen Weyl & Audrey Tang’s book ‘Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy’: https://www.plurality.net/chapters/ External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

    59 Min.

  7. 16.12.2025

    Episode 5: The Times of Water

    In this episode, Keri and Michel explore the role of time in conflicts over water and rivers in Goa, the Netherlands and the UK with political scientist Peter De Souza, artist-researcher Harriet Hand and scholar-activist Miriam Jensen.   Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Peter De Souza (formerly Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), at Goa University and Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies ) Miriam Jensen (Researcher, Aalborg University) Harriet Hand (Senior researcher, University of Bristol)   Summary In this episode, Keri and Michel explore with three leading experts how time plays a role in conflicts over water and rivers. They discuss the relations between geological, cultural, ecological and political times shaping river disputes in Goa, the changing calendars of farmers and zebra mussels in a Danish river, and the competing ideas of river times between wild swimmers and water companies in the UK.  References & Resources Mentioned Peter De Souza’s book ‘Mha Dei: River Goddess’ and documentary are available at the following website: http://mhadeicollective.com/ Miriam’s work on temporal attunement around the river: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X241301280 Harriet’s work on visualising time is part of the temporal imagination project: www.temporalimagination.org  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s book ‘Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead’ https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2533-theory-of-water Michelle Callon Penny Johns External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University  Credits Hosts: Keri Facer & Michel Alhadeff-Jones Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

    46 Min.

  8. 26.11.2025

    Episode 4: Time Talk, Narratives and the End of the World

    In this episode, Michel and Keri discuss with Nomi Claire Lazar and Andy Hom, two leading scholars in political science, the relations between our experience of time, identity, political beliefs and extremism. Hosts and Guests • Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) • Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) • Nomi Claire Lazar (Professor of Politics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada) • Andy Hom (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK) SummaryIn this episode, Michel and Keri discuss with Nomi Claire Lazar and Andy Hom, two leading scholars in political science, the relations between our experience of time, identity, political beliefs and extremism. Together, they explore the connections between time and the narratives we produce to give meaning to the complexity of our existence. The need to be able to relate past, present and future is probably a core feature of the human condition, especially when people feel they evolve in a time of crisis or uncertainty. The narratives people develop to orientate and project themselves through the time of their existence – and throughout history – express as much their core beliefs as they translate their deep hopes and fears. Such narratives express who we are and how we compose our identity in a world perceived as uncertain. They become even more powerful when they explicitly relate to the end of the world. They carry a heavy political weight that influences the ways people envision what they can or cannot do. References & Resources Mentioned • Andy Hom’s books: ‘International Relations and the Problem of Time’; ‘Time, Temporality and Global Politics’ (edited with C. Mcintosh, A. Mackay, & L. Stockdale): https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/29245923/Hom_E_IR_2016_Time_Temporality_and_Global_Politics.pdf ; and ‘Moral Victories: the Ethics of Winning Wars (edited with C. O'Driscoll and K. Mills) • Nomi Lazar’s books: ‘Out of Joint: Power, Crisis & the Rhetoric of Time’; ‘States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies’ • Machiavelli • Betsy Maestro’s book ‘The Story of Clocks and Calendars’  • Bismarck • Kant and Heidegger (on philosophy of time) • Rilke poem quotes ‘no feeling is final’ • Edgar Morin’s books on complexity: ‘Method’ and ‘On Complexity’ • Octavia Butler’s ‘God is Change’ in her book ‘Parable of the Sower’ • Barbara Adam & Chris Goves’s book ‘Futures ​​Matters’ • Kurt Vonnegut • Margaret Archer External Links • The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/  • Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/  • The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org  The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by • British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme • Sunkhronos Institute • The School of Education, University of Bristol • The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits • Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer • Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer • Artwork: Harriet Hand • Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  • Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  9. 26.11.2025

    Episode 3: The Power of Clocks and Calendars

    In this episode, Michelle Bastian, a leading scholar in the field of critical time studies, reflects with Michel and Keri on how timekeeping plays a critical role in the way we think and act in relation to environmental issues. Hosts and Guests • Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) • Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) • Michelle Bastian (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK) SummaryIn this episode, Michelle Bastian, a leading scholar in the field of critical time studies, reflects with Michel and Keri on how timekeeping plays a critical role in the way we think and act in relation to environmental issues. Together, they discuss how clocks contribute to power dynamics and social injustices, and what it takes - individually and collectively - to envision, live through, and regulate the plural temporalities and rhythms that shape life on Earth. References & Resources Mentioned • Husserl, Bergson and Heidegger (on philosophy of time) • Kevin Birth’s book ‘Object of time’ (how the objects we use to think about time shape our thought process) • Michelle Bastian’s book chapter ‘Liberating Clocks: Exploring other possible futures’: http://www.michellebastian.net/uploads/6/8/8/9/6889024/bastian_-_liberating_clocks__accepted_version.pdf  • Scott Bremer and Arjan Wardekker edited book ‘Changing Seasonality’ • Scott Thrift (Designer): https://thepresent.is/  • Theresa M. Crimmins’s book ‘Phenology’ External Links • The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/  • Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/  • The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org  The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by • British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme • Sunkhronos Institute • The School of Education, University of Bristol • The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits • Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer • Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer • Artwork: Harriet Hand • Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  • Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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  10. 26.11.2025

    Episode 2: Beyond Development, Pluriversal Temporalities

    In this episode, Arturo Escobar - the grandfather of modern critiques of development theory and originator of the idea of pluriversal design - talks with Keri and Michel about the danger of allowing one time story to dominate, about his own relationship with time, what it means to face death and endings, and his new work exploring pluriversal temporalities in Cali, Colombia.  Hosts and Guests • Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) • Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) • Arturo Escobar (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)  Summary In this episode, Arturo Escobar - the grandfather of modern critiques of development theory and originator of the idea of pluriversal design - talks with Keri and Michel about the danger of allowing one time story to dominate, about his own relationship with time, what it means to face death and endings, and his new work exploring pluriversal temporalities in Cali, Colombia.  References & Resources mentioned • Ailton Krenak, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault (on failing to understand and confront death) • Alfred N. Whitehead (on process philosophy)  • Arturo Escobar’s book is ‘Encountering Development: the making and unmaking of the third world • Bayo Akomolafe (on urgency and slowness)  • Ernst Block (on the ‘not yet’) • Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (on notions of the virtual) • Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA): https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/ • Henri Lefebvre (on rhythmanalysis and social critique) • JK Gibson Graham (as resources for noticing abundance rather than reifying dominance) • Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino (on paradoxical relationships with time) • Kyle White, Zoe Todd, Eve Tuck (on co-eval time, co-existence of many times) • Leanne Simpson’s book is ‘The Theory of Water’ • Martin Shaw (on being claimed by land) • Quechua Aymara (Pachacuti concept of radical transformation) • Sharon Stein (on matching solutions to diagnosis - see also the wider work of the Decolonial Futures Collective) • Shimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short text & TED talk, “The Danger of a Single Story” • Spinoza (on notion of immanence) • Vandana Shiva’s book is ‘Monocultures of the Mind’ External Links • The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ • Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ • The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by • British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme • Sunkhronos Institute • The School of Education, University of Bristol • The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University Credits • Hosts: Keri Facer & Michel Alhadeff Jones • Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer • Artwork: Harriet Hand • Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  • Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

    58 Min.

  11. 17.10.2025

    Episode 1: Rethinking the Times and Rhythms of a Just Transition

    In this episode, Michel and Keri introduce The Temporal Imagination podcast and explore how ‘temporal imagination’ and ‘rhythmic intelligence’ offer new ways of making sense of the world. Hosts and Guests Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland) Summary In this episode, Michel and Keri introduce The Temporal Imagination podcast and explore how ‘temporal imagination’ and ‘rhythmic intelligence’ offer new ways of making sense of the world. They talk about how societies and individuals understand and live in time in very diverse ways and how these differences create both conflicts and the potential for new possibilities to emerge. They discuss how rhythm shapes our experience of life, and structures the organisation of the world. And how the metaphors we use for talking about time and change, can both constrain and enable new ways of thinking. They begin to dive into how understanding, and working creatively with time and rhythm, are essential to making the changes in society needed for more sustainable and regenerative ways of living.  References & Resources Mentioned Achille Mbembe (on critiques of colonial time) Barbara Adam (on temporal imagination, time and society) C. Wright Mills (on sociological imagination) Danielle Allen (on political friendship) David Harvey (geographical imagination) Deborah Bird-Rose (on multispecies knots of time) Edgar Morin (on paradigm of complexity) Gaston Pineau (on temporalities, rhythms and lifelong learning) Giordano Nanni (on colonial time) Harriet Hand (on visualising time)  Hartmut Rosa (on acceleration) Henri Lefebvre (on rhythmanalysis) Jacques Attali (on time measurement and political power) Krzysztof Pomian (on epistemology of time and history) Keri Facer (on temporal imagination) Kyle White (on Indigenous time, the apocalypse has already happened)  Lisa Baraitser (on temporalities of care) Michel Alhadeff-Jones (on time and emancipatory education: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315727899 ; on rhythmic intelligence: https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sisyphus/article/view/26894/21490) Michelle Bastian (on critical time studies) Miriam Jensen (time and water) Roland Barthes (on rhythm and collective ways of living) Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)  Saint Augustine (on philosophy of time) Sarah Sharma (on everyday time) External Links The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/ Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/ The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org  The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme Sunkhronos Institute The School of Education, University of Bristol The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University   Credits Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer Artwork: Harriet Hand Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day”  Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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How do our habits of living and working with time shape us and our societies? Can we play and work with time differently to make a better world? Join hosts Professor Keri Facer and Dr Michel Alhadeff-Jones as they bring together world-leading researchers and academics from six continents to explore how rethinking the ways we think with, work with and live in time could be the key to unlocking more liveable futures for people and planet. N.B: This podcast is also available with closed captions on the Sunkhronos Institute's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts

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