The Power of Maybes. FutureCrafting, or how to divine futures by design

We are currently living through the earth’s sixth mass extinction. We need to open up new vistas for living and dwelling on a planet in crisis. This public event reflects on ways in which artists and designers can create and experiment with much needed fresh frameworks. With: Adam Nocek, Betti Marenko, and Patricia Pisters.

In his lecture Designs for Real Worlds. Speculative practices and decolonial propositions Adam Nocek reframes Whitehead’s conception of the speculative in terms of the autonomous and ontological design practices already underway in much of the Global South (especially in Latin America). Betti Marenko then continues with The Power of Maybes. FutureCrafting, or how to divine futures by design in which she looks at the digital uncertainty inherent in current technological apparatuses where machine learning and predictive algorithms operate in increasingly autonomous ways, becoming unknowable even to their programmers. The lectures are followed by a discussion with the audience moderated by Patricia Pisters.