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These ‘participatory futures’ approaches often use immersive physical or virtual environments, allowing people to place themselves in a future world and experiment with new values or behaviours. These might be interactive exhibitions, immersive theatre or digital simulations. The play Early Days (of a Better Nation), a collaboration between Coney a

If we look up and out again at the broader context of this moment in time, at the collapse of the Consumer and the resurgence of the Subject Story, it’s plain to see this kind of incremental, organisation-by-organisation change is necessary, but not sufficient. In parallel, this must be a moment for a radical renewal of the relationship between the

If we look up and out again at the broader context of this moment in time, at the collapse of the Consumer and the resurgence of the Subject Story, it’s plain to see this kind of incremental, organisation-by-organisation change is necessary, but not sufficient. In parallel, this must be a moment for a radical renewal of the relationship between the

All struggled with the constraints of state and corporate sponsorship and the limitations of presenting the future through the lens of objects and things rather than ideas and relationships. Even so, they were rare moments when possible futures were made tangible.