Vestigia Futura

Vestigia Futura is a transdisciplinary speculative project that seeks to materialize glimpses of possible futures for Mexico, both physically and digitally. Its goal is to tell stories about the implications of technological development on our decision-making capabilities, which in turn shape our political, social, and cultural lives. It is at the same time a workshop series and a laboratory where people create fictional narratives and artifacts that serve as materialized critique, visualizing consequences of contemporary issues mediated by technology. The narratives and artifacts also act as provocations or discussion catalysts, fostering the creation of new ways of being that challenge our notions of the present and the future. For this project I developed a toolkit that guides the formulation of different future scenarios in order to create tangible artefacts. The toolkit is composed by a deck of cards that participants use to negotiate their views about the future, and a set of worksheets that orient and track their narratives.