Art x Futures, 'Blended Futures' Foresight Journal panel, UNESCO FL Summit, 2020

Art x Futures

Speculative bubbles and expanding horizons

in “Blended Futures”, Foresight Journal panel, UNESCO Future Literacies Summit, 2020.

This intervention was an opportunity to begin formalizing reflections on how Art (the Arts) and artistic research contribute to the future and to future research (Axis 3).
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Drawing on a large palette of international references, the presentation builds on how artistic productions have constituted, since the dawn of time, anthropological and temporal markers, and should be seen as vehicle for temporal exploration, in all its possible dimensions and directions (a subject we will deepen - see related articles).
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Artistic productions and ecosystems do have, in many ways, an agency on the future: signs of the future, ecosystems of influence, nudges and prototypes, communities contributing to innovation and change, or even spaces for new pedagogy and speculative research, are some first tracks...

A propos du Sommet de l’UNESCO et du panel

En décembre 2020, l’UNESCO organise un sommet international dédié à la prospective et à la Littéracie des Futurs’’ intégralement en ligne avec de nombreux acteurs de la prospective (dont LIID Future Lab) invités à présenter leurs travaux sous la forme de stands virtuels et à proposer des événements en ligne.

A cette occasion, le Foresight Journal organise différents panels dont “Blended Futures #1: Learning from Art, Design, Urban Design, Science-Fiction & Algorithmics to renew foresight practices” auquel prend part Raphaële Bidault-Waddington, parmi d’autres événements.

‘Blended Futures: Learning from Art, Design, Urban Design, Science-Fiction & Algorithmics to renew foresight practices’, an Open-lab session organized by the Foresight Journal at UNESCO Future Literacies Summit, December, 11th at 2pm (CET)

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0gq7etLJs

The Future Literacies Summit is an invitation to open and renew foresight methodologies, to make them more accessible, agile and engaging, or else more critical, disruptive and impactful. In that regard, the foresight community could learn and better integrate in its methods, insights coming from other disciplines addressing the future from different perspectives and vocabularies.

In this exploratory session, the Foresight journal will invite unconventional foresight experts to share and discuss the specific inputs from art, design, urbanism, science fiction and algorithmics domains.

Host: Ozcan Saritas, Editor of Foresight Journal

Guests: Raphaële Bidault-Waddington (LIID Future Lab, France), Jean-Paul Pinto (Univ. of the Valley, Colombia), Dan Hill (Vinnova, Sweden), Maggie Greyson (Designer & Futurist, Canada), and Masaru Yarime (Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong)