In line with the statement "While the future
may not be predictable, it is certainly imaginable,"
Futures Brought to Life assumes that the immediate experience
of and practical engagement with future issues enhances our perception and imagination of the future. This is achieved through
"Experiential Futures," which provide an immersive environment for the audience to effectively situate themselves in the future,
encourage constructive dialogue, and motivate action in the present. This assumption is also the cornerstone of the art-based
research project Curiouser and Curiouser, cried Alice: Rebuilding Janus from Cassandra and Pollyanna (CCA).
The book
requires an interest in but no fundamental knowledge of the ideas of "Futures Thinking." Future design, future thinking, art-based
research, physical narratives, world-building, scenario development, and many other relevant areas are addressed and interconnected
in the publication. The publication is of interest to and informative for anyone who wants to use artistic research as a basis
for inspiring active possibilities for action in emerging futures.
The book also contains contributions from Anab Jain
(Superflux), Petra Schaper Rinkel, Gerald Bast, Chris Woebken & Elliott Montgomery (Extrapolation Factory), Katharina
Unger, Alex Davies, Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney (FoAM), José Ramos, Paul Graham Raven, The Yes Men, Lucy Kimbell, Scott
Smith & Susan Cox-Smith (Changeist), Rok Kranjic, Samista Jugwanth, Julia Nüßlein, Sophie Howe, Stuart Candy, Idil Gaziulusoy,
Jeremy Bentham, Claire Marshall, Julian Bleecker (Near Future Laboratory), Barbara Prainsack, Hendrik Wagenaar, Trevor Haldenby,
Noah Raford and Ilija Trojanow.
This publication is part of Curiouser and Curiouser, cried Alice: Rebuilding
Janus from Cassandra and Pollyanna (CCA), an art-based research project from Design Investigations (ID2) at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna and Time’s Up. It is supported by the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) from the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF): AR561.More Information:
https://timesup.org/publications/futures-brought-life-publicationPublisher: University for Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Wien
Editors: Time's
Up
Design: Time's Up, Thomas Maier
Übersetzung, Copy editing: Giles Tilling
Binding: Paperback
Format:
175x250mm
Number of pages: 192
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-9505090-3-8
Price: 12.- Euro (+ Shipping)
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