Amanda and Elen, in collaboration with a diverse team of legal scholars, are asking how we might use The Horniman Museum and Gardens to develop legal futures capacity among academic researchers; and with what benefits and risks?<\/p>\n
‘by \u2018legal futures\u2019 we mean the roles that law plays in constituting possible futures, whether by accident or by design (Stokes 2021).\u00a0By \u2018legal futures capacity\u2019 we mean our ability to work on, with, and through legal futures. To work on legal futures is to focus on legal futures as an object of inquiry. To work with and through legal futures is to activate the possibility of alternative futures, through traditional lawyerly activities such as legislation; and creative practices, such as prefiguration.\u00a0We anticipate that exploring legal futures at The Horniman will generate risks and rewards around the quality of research; and of research relations\u2014among researchers, and between researchers and those who use, or are otherwise affected by, research (Perry-Kessaris 2021).\u00a0The main project outcome will be a Field Guide to Investigating Legal Futures at The Horniman. We envisage this as an accessible, infinitely expandable, resource. It will be designed to \u2018help the novice\u2019 (researcher, educator, student, layperson) \u2018to rethink and freshly perceive formerly unremarkable objects and actions\u2019 by prompting and facilitating a \u2018change in habits of valuing, observing, and in modes of involvement and connection\u2019 (Schl\u00fcnder 2020).’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can read more about the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\nReferences
\nAmanda Perry-Kessaris (2021) Doing sociolegal research in design mode. Routledge.<\/p>\n
Martina Schl\u00fcnder (2020) \u2018The generative possibilities of the wrong box\u2019 in Susanne Bauer, Martina Schl\u00fcnder, Maria Rentetzi eds. Boxes: A Field Guide Mattering Press.<\/p>\n
Elen Stokes (2021) \u2018Beyond evidence: Anticipatory regimes in law\u2019 43:1 Law and Policy 73-91.<\/p>\n