05/05/2026
We invite you to our last multimodal methods workshop this semester, 'Poetic witnessing, documentation, imagination for justice'! This time, the method we'll be focusing on is poetry 🖋📝
When: Wednesday, May 13th, 15:15
Where: Engelska Parken 2-1077
The workshop is led by Mirko Nikolić - PhD, who works between performance, audiovisual and text-based art practice, political ecology and environmental humanities, with a focus on the
intersections of environmental, climate and social justice. He/they research and publish on extractivism and alternatives, just transitions, environmental philosophy. The recent book 'To friends, upstream and downstream, downwind and upwind'
(2025) uses a blend of autoethnographic and documentary poetic writing as a mode of environmental history-writing. Currently, he/they work as a researcher at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University exploring poetry workshop as a form of climate action.
Modern poetry has a rich history of addressing socio-environmental issues from situated and engaged positions, “testify[ing] to the often unheard voices of people struggling to survive in the face of unspeakable violence” (Metres, 2007). Poetry-writing continues to be an important tool to tell stories of organising for justice, resilience, and repair. What kind of eco-social temporalities, durations, localities and connections can we sense and transmit through poetic witnessing, remembering, imagining? How can we through poetic practice strive for restoration and repair, fair and just relations?
In the workshop we will test and think through several accessible methods from the tradition of ‘documentary poetry.’ Through examples and exercises, we will tackle pre-existing texts and discourses, to creatively re(con)figure them within the horizons of intersectional environmental, climate and multispecies justice. We will also reflect and discuss how we apply some of these techniques in our respective research practices.
Looking forward to seeing you! 📃🌳
