We are making some updates. The Chronoberg Chronicle and resources will be available soon. Thank you for your patience.
Welcome to Chronoberg
Chronoberg is a city unlike any other. Here, time is something we live, negotiate, and sometimes even fight over. Some want to standardize it for efficiency; others resist, insisting on slower, more relational rhythms. Some communities move in seasonal cycles, while others reject the idea of fixed time altogether.
Chronoberg offers teams working in sustainability new ways of exploring and negotiating time. Using the local Chronoberg Chronicle newspaper and a set of workshop activities we invite visitors to explore how Chronoberg’s people live with time and, perhaps, see your own world in a new light.
The Chronoberg Chronicle
The Chronoberg Chronicle is a 16-page newspaper publication. Recently awarded the title of “News provider of many futures” the tabloid paper captures the most important debates and conjures the most imaginative scenarios of a city where time works differently.
The Chronicle is the centrepiece for a suite of workshop activities designed to engage teams working towards a more just and sustainable future and offer new ways of exploring and negotiating time.
A workshop about time
Using The Chronoberg Chronicle, we have designed a range of activities that can be used to deliver a workshop that invites participants to step into a speculative city where time is lived differently.
Through reading, discussion, and creative experimentation, you will explore Chronoberg’s diverse temporal arrangements, reflecting on the tensions and opportunities that emerge when different ways of coordinating, measuring, and experiencing time are chosen. By engaging with the speculative world of Chronoberg, the workshop activities challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about time, fostering new perspectives on how temporal arrangements shape work, community life, and sustainability transitions.
Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how time could be negotiated, made more just, and reimagined as a shared practice of coordination.
FAQs
Who is the workshop aimed at?
The Chronicle and the workshop have been designed for teams working in the sustainability sector and individuals or groups who work with futures and critical time theory.
How many participants can take part?
We provide up to 20 free copies of the Chronicle newspaper for use in the workshops. We recommend allowing one copy per participant.
How long does a workshop take?
This is up to you. There are a range of activities that you can select. As a minimum, we recommend allowing an hour for participants to immerse themselves and explore some of the themes; a half-day workshop would be well suited to getting the most out of the resources.
How do I facilitate a workshop?
We provide a workshop guide for you to facilitate your own workshop. The activities we suggest can be selected and combined in different ways to suit you and your participants. You will need time to decide on the activities you would like to facilitate and prepare your own presentation slides to guide the session. The text for the slides can be copied from the workshop guide.
What resources do you provide, and do I need to prepare anything?
In addition to the workshop guide, we provide all the necessary resources to support the different activities including up to 20 copies of the Chronicle newspaper. Activity resources are available as downloadable files below. Printing and trimming of these resources are needed. For some activities, you will need to provide paper and pens or pencils.
We are making some updates. The Chronoberg Chronicle and resources will be available soon. Thank you for your patience.
About the project
The Chronoberg Chronicle
Editors: Paul Graham Raven & Harriet Hand
Producers: Keri Facer & Johannes Stripple
Contributors: Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Jason Allen-Paisant, Daniel Barber, Michelle Bastian, Diana Alexandra Bernal Arias, Heeten Bhagat, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Frida Buhre, Daniela De Fex Wolf, Peter De Souza, Catherine Dussault, Diana Eriksson Lagerqvist, Arturo Escobar, Keri Facer, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Håvard Haarstad, Andrew Hom, Nomi Claire Lazar, Luke Kaplan, Nomusa Makhubu, Bronwen Morgan, Sidney Muhangi, Ruth Ogden, Alison Oldfield, Zarina Patel, Matthew Scobie, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Johannes Stripple and Astrid Ulloa.
Printed by: The Newspaper Club
Welcome to Chronoberg workshop
Workshop format, activities and resources developed by Johannes Stripple, Keri Facer and Harriet Hand, with inputs from Alison Oldfield, Michelle Bastian and Paul Graham Raven.
The Times of a Just Transition
The Chronoberg Chronicle and workshop has been produced as part of the British Academy programme The Times of a Just Transition.
This programme brings together scholars from six continents and 14 disciplines to transform our understanding of the role of time and timing in producing justice and injustice in sustainability transitions.
Working in highly diverse local sustainability struggles relating to land, cities, identities and the imagination - we explore how temporal frames and narratives are being (mis)used to define climate problems and solutions, how timing mechanisms prioritise, coordinate and exclude different actors and ways of life, how different rhythms of life are being aligned or alienated, and how uses of time as a form of invisible power are structuring the possibilities for justice for communities in the Global South and marginalised North.
Increased awareness and understanding of these timing mechanisms will expand our political and civic capacities to detect sources of misalignment and miscommunication, lay new foundations for dialogue across difference, and open-up the possibility of a pluriversal politics.
