The ability to use imagination and envision future needs is crucial in
art, design and architecture. Future thinking and making require
imagination and capability to create narratives for near and far futures
and the capacity to compose proposals to meet the imagined future needs.
Future-oriented creative practices also require future
literacy--understanding the temporal continuum in which the
future-oriented work is created, and being aware of underlying
incentives, motivations and structures of the self-initiated works or
commissions. Similarly, viewing or consuming the speculative creative
works requires some level of understanding of the context of the works.
Studio Time: Future Thinking in Art and Design approaches these
questions with essays from international design and art thinkers,
reflective shorter essays and a selection of art, design and
architecture projects. The book consists of three parts that each focus
on future fictions in art and design from different perspectives: future
fictions and imagination in creative practices; future literacy; and
future ethics. Each part consists of two essays, two practical,
reflective contributions from artists and designers and a selection of
art and design projects from practitioners around the world. The book is
a closing chapter of Studio Future, which is one of the research studios
developed by Belgium-based Z33 House for Contemporary Art. Since 2012,
Studio Future has focused on a variety of aspects on future oriented art
and design practices through different research and exhibition projects,
which have been accompanied by online and offline publishing.
