There Are Trees in the Future, Or, a Case for Staying
The town’s compassionate side serves as a different kind of preview, suggesting that ruins can play a powerful role in creating the more supportive futures we need.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
experimenting with self-governance in the streets.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
The ongoing work of making the spaces in which we live cultivates a kind of alchemy, in which stronger links between people and place can arise.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
These are all pointers to a future fusion of technology, the arts, and community engagement in shaping cities, where our minds and bodies are activated in different kinds of experience, connection and imagination. They echo an earlier point about politics. If the tools of art can be used to construct possible future options for a society, to flush
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Moving “the future” away from ideologies of dominance and control has become imperative. One promising model can be found in the collective known as the Tropical Futures Institute, founded by designer and gallerist Chris Fussner. Based on the party island of Cebu, Philippines, the “institute” is in fact a decentralized, roaming think tank that prod... See more