About

The FluxKit for Energy Transition is a component of a larger project initiated by Speculative Energy Futures (SEF), an interdisciplinary, intercultural, multi-year research-creation team brought together under the banner of the Just Powers. Based in Treaty 6 territory, SEF (2017-2025) brought together participants from across Canada - artists, activists, Indigenous legal experts and knowledge keepers, scientists, engineers, policymakers, social science and energy humanities researchers - to investigate the challenges and potentials of energy transition through artistic means. 

A toolbox to help citizens, policymakers, community organizers, engineers and scientists, teachers, and students think about energy transition as not simply a technological issue, the FluxKit for Energy Transition was inspired by Fluxus, the 1960s conceptual art movement. The iconic Fluxus Fluxkits were often suitcases full of art-making prompts to be disseminated to as many different communities and audiences as possible. Our FluxKit nests nine distinct but interdependent and interdisciplinary projects designed to catalyze participants as they unpack and encounter the kit’s contents. 

All of the pieces of the FluxKit share research and knowledge the SEF team co-constructed over many years, and each contribution to the kit provides a prompt or a set of instructions to encourage individuals and groups who engage with the kit to collaboratively act on climate justice.

In December 2019, developmental aspects of the kit were animated for the exhibition Prototypes for Possible Worlds and in November 2022, the Speculative Energy Futures showcased and animated the FluxKit for Energy Transition in St. Gallen, Switzerland, as the first visiting artists-in-residence at SQUARE — the University of St. Gallen’s new interdisciplinary space dedicated to fostering dialogue between science, society, business, politics, and culture. Since then, it has been hosted at universities and conferences nationally and internationally.