Within the framework of the transdisciplinary conference TANC | The Apocalypse is Not Coming, to be held in Barcelona from May 12 to 15, 2026, members of the K-Reporters project will participate in the panel (Un)Worlding: What futures do children and youth imagine?

(Un)Worlding: What futures do children and youth imagine?

In the fictional futurism of ‘The Camille stories: Children of Compost’, Donna Haraway (2016) shares speculative narratives that emerged in a collective writing workshop, which follows five generations of Camille. As a child of Anthropocene (Lack, 2022), this butterfly girl and symbiotic being struggles to preserve the endangered monarch butterfly. In syntony with Staying with the Trouble, we co-construct stories with children and youth through our research, as co-authors of meanings, questions, rebellions and futures. We experiment with new imaginaries, worlds and relationalities that overflow Human centrality to produce new ways of living, feeling and inhabiting. In this way, relational ontology leads us to understand the bonds, memories, desires and affects formed by childhood and youth when ‘making kin’, while confronting adult-centrism, racism and extractivism.  

Together with ecofeminist, Afrofuturist and decolonial perspectives, we will weave, in the company of childhood, constellations of meanings that open cracks in the world as given, thus enabling the creation of multiple and sensitive worlds. This panel discusses the relationships between childhood, youth and more-than-human, including Intra-actions with nature, animals, spirits, other materialities, and the monstrous. Our proposal revolves around these questions: What imaginaries about the apocalypse do other-childhoods create? How are they politically activated ‘in relation’ to transgress (un)known worlds?  What alternatives for survival emerge from the vision of children and young people in the Global South?  We present narratives about (un)worlding inspired by the Common World Research Collective, to explore children’s and youth resistances in the face of social, ecological, political and spiritual crises.

This panel will accept papers in English, Catalan or Spanish.