re:TO: Pursuing Urban Re-Imaginaries Through an Affected Ontological Inquiry into the Capitalocene In Toronto

This project embraces the more-than-human-turn by building upon two concepts, one from the environmental humanities and one from climate communications: from the environmental humanities, the Capitalocene thesis; and from climate communications, the localisation concept. These two theories are brought together in a praxis project utilizing walking and autoethnographic research methodologies in an affective, ontological inquiry into the researcher's experience of Capitalogenic climate change within her city, Toronto. The hypothesis states that disrupting everyday patterns of city life through critical sensory walking inquiry into place creates potential for localising Capitalogenic conditions, thereby further creating cognitive space to reimagine possibilities within her daily life in Toronto. Hypothesis is guided by three research questions - (1) How does the researcher, a Torontonian, perceive Capitalogenic climate change conditions within the city?, (2) Can walking research methodologies be used for reimagining urban realities during the Capitalocene?, and (3) Can walking-as-localising research be a means to inspire mitigation and adaptation efforts among other Torontonians? Documentation of autoethnographic processes on the website re-TOronto.com becomes a model for citizen walking research during Capitalogenic climate change in Toronto.