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future_fabulators:possible_futures_parallel_presents [2014-03-04 08:42] – [Possible Futures & Parallel Presents] majafuture_fabulators:possible_futures_parallel_presents [2014-03-24 07:49] – nik
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 ==== Possible Futures & Parallel Presents ==== ==== Possible Futures & Parallel Presents ====
  
-what this page is exactly about isn't quite clear yet. we're interested in how futures can inform present practices that are attempting to answer the question: **"how could things be otherwise"**?+This page shows various approaches to the parallel and the possible. We're interested in how futures can inform present practices that are attempting to answer the question: **"how could things be otherwise"**? Some projects implicitly assume a specific future, others demand nothing less than total commitment ot the present. Somewhat related to [[design fiction]], yet focused on creating parallels or alternatives to existing cultures. it also has something to do with incubating the culture of the 'long now', extended present, smeared moments...
  
-e.g. micronations, Kingdom of Elgaland Vargaland, NSK, Near Future Lab, Superflux, BERG, Loop, Pierre Huyghe, Tobias Revell, infrastructure fiction, design fiction, kaospilots, Institute of Collapsonomics, etc, .+e.g. micronations, Kingdom of Elgaland Vargaland, NSK, Near Future Lab, Superflux, BERG, Loop, Pierre Huyghe, Tobias Revell, infrastructure fiction, design fiction, kaospilots, D'Annunzio's Fiume, various communes/intentional communities from the 1960s onward, Irrational, Collapsonomics, Future Farmers, Institute of Collapsonomics, Unmonastery, Edgeryders, etc.
  
-specific works/events/examples+towards specific works/events/examples
   * SuperStruct (2009)   * SuperStruct (2009)
   * [[Rewilding etiquette]]   * [[Rewilding etiquette]]
   * FutureCoast (2014) http://futurecoast.org/ and http://situationlab.org/2014/02/12/futurecoast/   * FutureCoast (2014) http://futurecoast.org/ and http://situationlab.org/2014/02/12/futurecoast/
 +  * Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic (and other works): http://www.fastcompany.com/3016997/women-in-tech-2011/the-most-influential-women-in-technology-2011-natalie-jeremijenko
  
 +==== The Very Near Future ====
  
-==== design fiction ==== +{{>http//www.youtube.com/embed/18GQpVTq5B0}}
-see [[design fiction]]+
  
 ==== design futurescaping==== ==== design futurescaping====
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 instead of just talking about change, implementing change in .o.a. [[doing democracy]] instead of just talking about change, implementing change in .o.a. [[doing democracy]]
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