Utopia
Utopia (2022 – Present) is a project exploring frameworks of futurity, utopia, and dream(ing) in the context of peer support, disability, community, and loss.
This series includes my MA major research paper, along with journal articles, blog posts, zines, cyanotypes, digital art, and a series of workshops and presentations.
publications
(open access)
Calvin Prowse (in press). Dreaming Through the Cracks. Disabled Dreaming: Seeking a Future of Proactive Accessibility in Teaching & Learning. McMaster University.
Calvin Prowse (in press). Intake [poem]. Disabled Dreaming: Seeking a Future of Proactive Accessibility in Teaching & Learning. McMaster University.
Calvin Prowse (in press). Introducing Peer Support Futures. Critical Disability Discourses.
Calvin Prowse (in press). Purple Basil Lemonade: Community Rituals for Crip Pasts / Presents / Futures. New Sociology.
Calvin Prowse (in preparation). Work as Recovery: Peer Support and the Social Relations of Labour Extraction. Critical Disability Discourses.
Calvin Prowse (2023). Dreaming Peer Support Futures [Major Research Paper, York University].
blog posts
Calvin Prowse (2024). Mapping Peer Support Futures. PeerWorks.
Colene Allen & Calvin Prowse (2023). Dreaming Together: (Re)Imagining Pathways for Peer Advancement. PeerWorks.
“What could a lens of futurity offer the world of consumer / survivor peer support?”
zines
Available for purchase through my shop:
- mapping peer support futures, 2024 (download)
- the future is blue: cyanotypes, temporality, & utopian horizons, 2024
- mycotopia (fungal futures), 2023
- Introducing Peer Support Futures, 2023
- purple basil lemonade, 2023
- poems, &c., 2023
- Sweet Dreams Spellbook: A Field Guide for Dreamwork, 2023
- Community and / as Magic, 2019
“What if things were different?”
— Andi C. Buchanan, 2020
Ōmarino
in Rebuilding Tomorrow, p. 168
photographs & cyanotypes
Prints available for purchase through my shop.
Found Utopia (2023). SWARM Annual Members Exhibition, Hamilton Artists Inc. (Dec. 1 2023 – Jan. 13, 2024).
Reclaimed Log (2023).
Arboreal Standard (2023).
digital art
Undefined, 2024.
Eclipse, 2024.
“I just found utopia; scrawled with sharpie on the side of a payphone — not once, but twice.”
— Introducing Peer Support Futures
SWARM Annual Members Exhibition. Hamilton Artists Inc.
workshops
Calvin Prowse & Colene Allen (2024, April 30). Dreaming Together Networking Session: Peer Roles in Digital Futures. PeerWorks Conference: Gathering Together, Dreaming Together, Transforming Together.
Calvin Prowse (2024, Feb. 27). Dreaming Peer Support Futures: Scenario Planning Workshop. PeerWorks.
Calvin Prowse (2023, Dec. 3). Dreaming Peer Support Futures Through Creative Writing. Developed for the PeerWorks Board.
Calvin Prowse & Colene Allen (2023, May 9). Dreaming Together: (Re)Imagining Pathways for Peer Advancement. PeerWorks Conference: Gathering Together, Dreaming Together, Transforming Together.
Calvin Prowse (2022, Dec. 19). Everyday Madgic: Rituals for Change.
Calvin Prowse (2022, Oct. 4). Dreaming Together: Values-Based Dreaming. Ontario Peer Development Initiative Conference: Gathering Together, Dreaming Together, Transforming Together.
“Utopia is within us — it is not something that we need to learn the theory of in a classroom, it is built from deep within our lived experience.”
— Mx. Yaffa A.S., 2022
Beyond Utopia: The Building Utopia Guide
for Queer and Trans Muslims, p. 544
presentations
Calvin Prowse (2024, Feb. 6). Introducing Peer Support Futures: On Hope, Dream, and Building Utopia. Peer Support Revolution: What’s Next? Peer Support Strong Conference, PeerWorks & LERN.
Calvin Prowse (2023, Nov. 23). Peer Work Pasts / Presents / Futures. Social Work 2CC3, McMaster University.
Calvin Prowse (2023, Oct. 28). Purple Basil Lemonade: Community Rituals for Crip Pasts / Presents / Futures. Disability Arts & Crip Futurities Conference, Trent University.
Calvin Prowse (2023, Aug. 2). Introducing Peer Support Futures. Critical Disability Studies Student Association (CDSSA) Colloquium, York University.
Calvin Prowse (2023, May 9). Work as Recovery: Warning Signs of Dystopian Futures? PeerWorks Conference: Gathering Together, Dreaming Together, Transforming Together.
Calvin Prowse (2023, March 30). Engagement, Institutionalization, and the Future(s) of Peer Support. Social Work 744, McMaster University.
Calvin Prowse (2023, Jan. 25). One History of Peer Support. Developed for SACHA staff.
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