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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