Futurelab

This event has already taken place and ended on 30 May 2009

Richard Sandford plus other members of Futurelab, a Bristol-based think tank, discuss different ideas and expectations people have about the future.

 Who makes your future? It’s easy to think that the future is out of our hands, something that rushes to meet us that we can’t control. Maybe it feels as if looking after the future is a job for scientists or governments, and the best we can hope for is to try and keep up with the huge changes that seem to be bearing down on us. Or perhaps it’s nothing to do with us: biometric chips, or gene therapy, or space tourism will all happen somewhere else in the world.

But is that really how it is? The future is made up of all the things we do today and tomorrow and the day after that: the world we’ll end up with is the one we build right now, here in Bristol. During this seminar, we’ll describe outbreaks of the future that we can see from the window, and explore the ways they might affect or be brought about by different people. By the end of the day we’ll all have a better understanding of the things we could do to build a world we’ll want to be living in."

Futurology Film & Events Programme

Futurology is the cultural investigation into how representations of the future affect the present. At Arnolfini it is presented as a research and exhibitions programme investigating envisionings of the future, looking at the role of architecture and the infrastructure of the built environment within this.

The Futurology exhibition programme, starts with The Good Life and continues with Tommy Støckel and Sequelism later in 2009.

www.futurologyprogramme.org