Speculative Futures: Digital Eco-Stories from an Environmental Humanities Teacher Training Program in Europe

Amitav Ghosh’s declaration of “a crisis of the imagination” with regard to the current period on our planet is the venture point for our paper to present digital Eco-Storytelling as a speculative participatory approach useful for stimulating cultural imaginations of futurities and hence counteracting this crisis. Guided by ecopedagogy, which aims at constructing learning towards increased social and environmental justices, we will present and analyze findings from the EcoStories International Teacher Training Program carried out in 2025 with students from the University of Malaga, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and University of Graz.