Time is a deeply multi-dimensional, complex and paradoxical experience. On one hand, our senses are able to experience several parallel or entangled forms of time, through events progression inside the real time, whether in the physical environment, in vehicles, via sound, screens and technological devices, images, windows or the distant landscape.

On another hand, and simultaneously or not, our mind is also capable of disrupting the timeline to travel backward and forward, in various dimensions (history, fiction, metaverse, immaterial, cosmos, future, etc.), and thus generating other time shapes and more dynamic time experiences.

Using images, artworks and theoretical concepts from different fields (philosophy, aesthetics, musicology, urban design, etc.), we propose to draw a taxonomy of time shapes and experiences, via a multi-faceted and diagrammatic approach (polygonal research).

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PRIMER, the conference designed to prepare you for the future

In 2022, PRIMER seeks to explore a theme as old as philosophy: we want to share perceptions, experiences, and current state-of-the-art futures practices to look deep, wide, and far into what might soon become the next paradigms.

Experiences of Time
In an era of growing parallelisms and of age-old notions yearning to be redefined, we are brimming on a nexus where our individual and collective consciousness and our presences are increasingly manifesting in – and through – hybrid experiences.
It is certainly a defining time, one of those “perfect storms” in which we can proactively apply our speculative competences to the many challenges ahead envisioning futures with full awareness, with a sense of urgency, or doom. Or, simply, with inertia.
Our theme this year focuses on the experience of time.

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