Tropical futurism

Names

• Tropical Futurism
• Tropical Futurisms
• Tropical Futures

Artists & Creators

• The Forest Curriculum (Abhijan Toto & Pujita, Curators) (TH-PH-DE)
• Dengue Dengue Dengue
• Tropical Futures Institute aka Chris Fussner (PH-US)
• Helen M. Mitchell (INDO)
• Norman Orro (ES-NL)

Curators, Theorists, Researchers

• Bladimir Enrique Cedeño-Vega
• Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez
• Alan Marshall
• Danishwara Nathaniel
• Alex Quicho (UK)

Events

Exhibitions & Catalogues

2015

• Sari Suki, 856G Gallery, Cebu, Phillipines, Aug 20-Sep 10, 2015. "...a design futures exhibition and an interactive installation that explores tropical futures through a neighborhood convenience store." Collaborators: Sophia Callahan, Chris Fussner, Noah Emrich.

Publications

Books

• Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, 2019.

• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, 2022, 716pp.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, The Cairns Institute of tropical studies at James Cook University, Edited by Anita Lundberg, 2002-.
  • "Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures", March 14 2025.
  • "Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Making Futures", April 21 2025.
• Garden Club, edited by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Global, 2011-.
• Tropical Futures Institute, Are.na, Edited by Chris Fussner, 2015-.
• XLE.LIFE, Edited by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Global, 2018-.
• Tropical Futurism, Are.na, Edited by Sherlan Abesamis, 2019-.
• TropFüDump:3, Are.na, Edited by Sasha Magallona, 2023-.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• "Tropical Futurism", Mas Tropical, Soundcloud, Audio, 2017.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• Max Pearl, "Dengue Dengue Dengue: Tropical Futurism", Resident Advisor, August 24 2016.

• Godfrey Deeney, "Tropical Futurism from booming Fendi", Fashion Network, September 21 2017.

• Alex Quicho, "Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of our Fate", Wired, Jan 9 2022.

• Meg Miller, "Tropical Futures", Thisismold.com, Apr 5 2022.

• ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez, Jueling Hu, Nsah Mala, Anita Lundberg, "Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures", Introduction Essay for ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Laura de la Fuente López, "Translation, Decolonial Futures, and More-than-Human: Caribbean Utopia in Lahens’ Bain de Lune", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez, "Archipelagic Futures: The Speculative and Decolonial Transecopoetics of Roque Raquel Salas Rivera", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Niyi Akingbe, "Tropical Eco-African Futurism in Ben Okri’s every leaf a hallelujah and Ndhlovu and Keokgale’s Zandi’s Song", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Prabhudutta Samal, Swati Samantaray, "Zambian Futurism and Decolonial Entanglements: History, Ecology, and Technology in The Old Drift", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Chakshu Gupta, Isha Malhotra, "Waste Ecologies and Decoloniality in the Tropical Futurisms of Shiv Ramdas’s Domechild (2013)", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Neeharika Haloi, "Dystopian Mumbai: Futurism in Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Guhan Priyadharshan P., "Towards a Sri Lankan Future: Interethnicity and Homosexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Abhisek Ghosal, "Futurizing Geo-tropicality: Blue (Infra)structuralism and the Indian Ocean in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Wai Liang Tham, "‘Malaysia’ Resurveyed: From Representation and Separation to Alternative Tropical Futurities", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Nikodemus Niko, "Dayak Benawan Indigenous Futures: Tropical Rainforest Knowledge in Kalimantan, Indonesia", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Thanh Tran, "Sustainable Nostalgia to Dystopian Future: Toward a Tropical Transnational Ecocinema in Mekong 2030", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Gemma Blackwood, "Ecocinema in Pukapuka: Climate Change and Pacific Island Futures in Gemma Cubero del Barrio’s Our Atoll Speaks (2019) and The Island in Me (2021)", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Florence Boulard, Marine Lechene, Lola Kamblock, "Across the Tropical Pacific Ocean: Reflections on the Future of Kanaky-New Caledonia", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• • Jasmin Peer, "The Undesirable Present and Future of Disability Support in Tropical Far North Queensland, Australia", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, March 14 2025.

• ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo, Abdulmalik Adakole Amali, Fidelis Enang Egbe, Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen, "Water Fights Back in Lagos: A Performance Reading of Aqua-Terrestrial Futures in Ojo Bakare’s “Ekun Omi”", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Ayodele Arigbabu, "Protopian African Futures: Demas Nwoko’s Tropical Architecture, Natural Synthesis—and Solarpunk", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Alan Marshall, "Visioning Tropical Cities of the Future: Case Studies Using the Literary Method of Urban Design", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Bladimir Enrique Cedeño-Vega, "Tropical Futurism Aesthetics: The Impact of Latin American Women's Urban Art on Social Change", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Helen M. Mitchell, "Lost Specimens from Neotropical Futures: Evolutionary Species of another Place and Time", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Tania Leimbach, Keith Armstrong, Jane Palmer, Delissa Walker Ngadijina, Gerry Turpin, "Plant-Human Futurisms in the Australian Tropics: Native Grasses and the Carbon_Dating Art Project", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Danishwara Nathaniel, "Envisioning Multispecies Tropical Futurity: Image-Making in North Maluku’s Frontier Zone", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Randolph V. Langstieh, "Indigenous Futurity in the Living Root Bridges of the Khasi-Jaiñtia Hills of India: A Documentary Essay", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • Kathryn Hummel, "“Play Wisteria for Me”: Poetry as an Augury of Tropical Future(s)", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

• • B.B.P. Hosmillo, "Decolonial Exhumation, or the Future Where No One Is Home: Writing Abuse at the Trans-Queer-Feminist Intersection of Tropical Archipelagic Thinking", ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures, April 21 2025.

See Also

Futurisms, Indigenous Futurism, Global South Futurisms, South Asian Futurisms, Amazofuturism, Indofuturism, Desifuturism, Ecofuturism, Ecofeminism, Afrofuturism, Queer Ecologies, Decolonization, Solarpunk