Midsummer heat during winters, freezing hail on summer nights, pouring rain during dry seasons – a change in the pace and intensity of meteorological events ceaselessly disrupts ecological cycles. These pressing and oftentimes alienating seasonal registers, both literal and figurative, lead to accelerated extinction, as well as new modalities of life.

What kind of normalities might emerge from these novel conditions? What kind of new languages and aesthetics do they inspire? What kind of material and spatial realities are capable of embracing, not just withstanding, but circulating and resonating with such unpredictable forces of nature? In this module, we challenge static conception of nature and explore the plurality of competing notions of nature through the lens of seasonality. By taking a positive distance from dominant public imaginaries, ones that are associated with climate apocalyptic scenarios, techno-optimism, or the promotion of fossil fuels and overconsumption, our investigations will challenge unreflected absolutes.

The semester invites to critically and creatively engage with the potentials of the ‘unseasonable’ by conducting theoretical and practical investigation on seasonal dynamics of human–more-than-human habitats. Vastly universal yet deeply situated within local landscapes, the projects will 1) ask how can the incommensurable metrics of the unseasonable be articulated through artistic practices, 2) explore how occurring mismatches and alienations create dynamic hybrids, resonant networks, improbable naturescultures, and 3) reflect upon growing dissonance between constructed and lived realities, between desired and actual identities, to both imagine and build more resilient futures for increasingly unseasonable systems.