Journal from 2050

Today I participated in a brilliant Futures session with Superflux whereby we heard from co-founder Anab Jain about their work with examples from different projects, and then took part in a futures exercise.

I’ll be writing a longer blogpost about the session in the near future but before then I wanted to share about the exercise we were led through which was a really exciting way to get in touch with the uncertain future.

We were offered a series of predictions that would serve as provocations, and then asked to journal from the point of view of someone close to us, who would be alive in 2050. Below you can see the slide with the trends predicted for 2050, and underneath it my short journal entry. If you’d like to have a go yourself you could read the following provocations, take 15 minutes, and have a go at journalling as if you are in a 2050 where these things are true (and tag Anab Jain if you publish it!).

Journal entry

We have a leak. AGAIN. Joining the new floating city seemed like a good idea but only if you have one of the luxury boats.

I’m a bit worried about the bacterial bloom and the water smells of disinfectant which is good but also gives me a headache.

We’ve had to avoid a seagull nest nearby — feels like since the new Animal Rights law came throguh they’re getting more priority than we are these days!

Summer lockdown has started again — the UK can’t cope in the heat and after the die out last year we can’t be too careful.

Mummy (who has been 88 for 20 years now) got me a trip to the Moon for my next birthday and I’m so excited to go!