Dossier
Imagining Futures
In the last few years there has been a loud cry for new narratives around reality, and speculative stories and science fiction are all the rage. We need stories that nurture, invent, improvise and discover new ways of living, while reflecting on what is plausible in times of climate change and technological acceleration.
Storytelling
Future Narratopias: Exhaustion of the Possible
Laura Benítez Valero
Speculative stories are all the rage, but when they avoid commitment they lose the power conferred upon them by the fictional.
Storytelling
Design Fiction: Prototyping Desirable Futures
Elisabet Roselló
Design fiction enables us to imagine and critically explore possibilities for the future through tangible objects.
Planet
Storytelling
Frictions in Reality
Elisabet Roselló
A reflection on the meaning of what is plausible in times of climate change and technological acceleration.
Storytelling
Designing between truth and fiction
Oriol Arnedo Casas
In the throes of the post-truth era, a new generation of designers have started to use fiction in their creative work as a means for speculating about the nature of the reality that surrounds us.
Storytelling
Graphs, Expectations and Inventing the Future
Andreu Belsunces
Visualizations contribute to creating our social imaginaries and expectations, and therefore have an impact on the construction of future realities.
Planet
Minister of the Future
Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton represents the heirs of the planet, human and non-human, whose existence will be determined by what we do and how we think from now on.
Storytelling
Images for landing in the future
Bernardo Gutiérrez
We cast an analytical eye over several projects that question the Western perspective of space and offer a series of images to decolonise the future.
Storytelling
Afrofuturism, Science Fiction and African Identity
Ferran Esteve
Afrofuturism is an artistic and cultural movement that has been calling for a new identity for decades through the science fiction and historical fantasy genres.
Planet
Making Energy Futures at the Island Edge
Laura Watts
Diary of the installation of the Newton Machine on the island of Eday (Scotland), a project that challenges the energy culture through citizen participation.
Technology
Vaporwave: The Musical Wallpaper of Lost Futures
Arnau Horta
Half a decade after it first appeared, we take stock of this internet-based music genre and explore its critique of consumer culture.