Is the question that a team of futurists and international experts address in the 6th edition of FO/Futureorientation, the house magazine of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, an independent Danish (CIFS) non-profit research institution in Copenhagen. Who Owns the Future? May, at first glance, seem like a trick question, as it’s impossible to own [...]

Ars Electronica is a thirty-year-old annual festival of art, technology and society that takes place in Linz, Austria. The theme of this year’s edition is Human Nature. In their words:”This HUMAN NATURE will occupy the focal point at the next Ars Electronica Festival September 3-8, 2009 amidst a mix of speculative futuristic designs and provocative [...]

Originally posted by Earth and other unlikely worlds http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com reblogged by Cluster Shop in a shipping container, Bemerton Street, North London. The comment by PapaBear on science fiction writer Paul McAuley’s blog under this post Instant Architecture reads “All I can say is that if you are ready to serve a need, then can you [...]

Originally published on Cluster The new book form Edgar Pieterse is out! “City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development” deals with the developments and challenges cities have to deal with. Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The ‘mega-cities’ of the [...]

Originally posted on The Where Blog, reblogged by Cluster photo: www.las-vegas.de Fast-forward a bit. Let’s say that it’s 2050, since that seems to be a popular year for speculation these days. You’re living in a stylish downtown penthouse a few blocks from a gleaming transit station servicing three different high-speed lines. You work in an [...]