For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise

Exhibiting toxicity: sprayed strawberries and geographies of hope

“…Maintaining hope in such contexts is essential to reframing dominant narratives, contesting power structures and redistributing agency. 4 Our hopeful geography is, following Eben Kirksey, grounded in the 'actual living' communities of workers together with assemblages of more-than-humans; namely air, molecules, soil and strawberries. 5 As such, the exhibition brought together multiple perspectives on toxic environments and was itself the product of a multidisciplinary collaboration between a soil scientist, a social geographer and an artist.…”