Pluriversal Climatologies: Speculative Fabulations for Decolonial Climate Praxis in the Built Environment

This essay examines the limitations of dominant Western approaches to climate change in the built environment and proposes a radical reimagining of climate emergency practices through the lens of decolonial theory and speculative thought. Employing a theoretical framework of embodied resistances, chronopolitical pluriverses, and ontological multiplicities, the study synthesizes diverse ontologies informing radical climate theories and presents speculative fabulations of pluriversal climate worlds. Key findings include the emergence of metabolic and sensory architectures, the development of cyclical resilience and polytemporal infrastructure, and the conceptualization of onto-ecological design. These findings collectively point towards a pluriversal understanding of climate that recognizes multiple, coexisting realities and ways of being. The essay concludes by advocating for a decolonized, pluriversal future in built environment theories and practices, where diverse ontological frameworks are actively nurtured and propagated. This approach opens up new possibilities for more transformative engagements with climate change.