Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Speculative Futures: Digital Eco-Stories from an Environmental Humanities Teacher Training Program in Europe

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Abstract

Amitav Ghosh’s declaration of “a crisis of the imagination” with regard to the current period on our planet is the venture point for our paper to present digital Eco-Storytelling as a speculative participatory approach useful for stimulating cultural imaginations of futurities and hence counteracting this crisis. Guided by ecopedagogy, which aims at constructing learning towards increased social and environmental justices, we will present and analyze findings from the EcoStories International Teacher Training Program carried out in 2025 with students from the University of Malaga, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and University of Graz.


open access | peer reviewed

Presentato: 06 Settembre 2025 | Accettato: 20 Ottobre 2025 | Pubblicato 18 Dicembre 2025 | Lingua: en

Keywords Creativity • Futurities • International teaching • Digital storytelling • Ecopedagogy

Copyright © 2025 Eva Katharina Bauer, Fabiana Fazzi, Nicole Haring. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/02/005