
News from Speculative Play and Just Futurities

Fereshteh Toosi in Residence October 2024
We are pleased to announce that Fereshteh Toosi has completed their October 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Toosi further developed their latest project, The Crude Medium.

Dr. Shardé M. Davis in Residence October 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Shardé M. Davis has completed her September 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. During her time in Indianapolis, Dr. Davis further developed her latest project, The Sabbath Project (TSP).

Dr. Isabel Pérez-Ramos in Residence September 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Isabel Pérez-Ramos has completed her September 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. During her time in Indianapolis, Dr. Peréz-Ramos developed her latest project, Counter-narratives of the Wasteocene.

Dr. Emmanuel Saboro in Residence September 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Emmanuel Saboro completed his September 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Dr. Saboro developed his latest project, Sites of Memory: Visuality and Metaphors of the Slave Experience in Ghana.

Dr. Jazma Sutton in Residence September 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jazma Sutton has completed her September 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Dr. Sutton developed her latest project, Moving Toward Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Freedom in Antebellum Indiana.

Nico Valdivia Hennig in Residence Aug/Sept 2024
We are pleased to announce that Nico Valdivia Hennig has completed his August/September 2024 residency in the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Valdivia Hennig developed their latest project, Andean Futures: Collaborative Play-Creation.

Dr. Renee Hudson in Residence August 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Renee Hudson has completed her August 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Dr. Hudson developed her latest project, “Hegemonic Citizenship,” a chapter in her upcoming book Latinx Girlhood and the Problem of Citizenship.

Thomas Kneeland in Residence April 2024
We are pleased to announce Thomas Kneeland has completed his April 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. Kneeland’s project employs poetry (and adjacent mediums) to explore the ways in which poetry can be a formidable tool for occupying, preserving, and amplifying the cultural narratives of Black and Brown communities to make for a better future.

Patrick Armstrong in Residence April 2024
We are pleased to announce Patrick Armstrong has completed his April 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. During his residency, Armstrong developed a narrative podcast tentatively titled Asian America: Midwest Mosaic.

Reyes Ramirez in Residence April 2024
We are pleased to announce that Reyes Ramirez has completed his April 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. During his residency, Reyes expanded his latest curatorial project, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids.
Nasreen Khan in Residence March 2024
We are pleased to announce Nasreen Khan has completed her March 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. Drawing from social media microfiction and the Afghani female poetry form landays, Khan created visual and narrative social media campaigns questioning the interplay of power dynamics and femininity.

Evren Wilder Elliott in Residence February 2024
We are pleased to announce Evren Wilder Elliott has completed his February 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Wilder Elliott researched and collaborated towards his latest project, Imagining Home: liberatory theatre and speculative solutions for housing justice.

Stephen Lane in Residence January 2024
We are pleased to announce Stephen Lane has completed his January 2024 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in residence, Lane researched the development of archival collections within the Indiana State Archives, the Indiana State Library, and the Indiana Historical Society; exploring new ways archival collections can reflect all aspects of Indiana’s history.

Artur Silva in Residence September 2023
We are pleased to announce that our first scholar-in-residence, Artur Silva has completed his September 2023 residency with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program. While in Indianapolis, Artur developed his latest project, which centers the legacy of explorer Giovanni Belzoni and examines the colonial behavior of institutions such as the British Museum.


‘Speculative Play and Just Futurities’ to address social justice through new residencies
‘Speculative Play and Just Futurities’ to address social justice through new residencies — Speculative Play and Just Futurities