{"id":2578,"date":"2024-06-29T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T09:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2024-06-29T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T09:37:47","slug":"gaps-between-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"Gaps between Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A series of rich presentations and conversations aligned over the last few weeks to extend the question: Do we have the data sets to move toward a Regenerative Future? This time the question was triangulated by talks that explored the gap between futures – Futures mundane, and Futures imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her keynote talk at the Society 5.0 Ethics \u2013 A Festival of Ideas<\/a> conference, Annette Markham recovered Arjun Appadurai (2013<\/a>) who posited that \u201canticipation functions within an ethic of probability rather than possibility\u201d and used Sch\u00fcll\u2019s<\/a> analogy of dominoes falling to explain that \u201cwe anticipate them tumbling down in order, unless something goes wrong.\u201d Extending this to how we might imagine different futures, people foresee a future outcome as a matter of probability and if the past and present continue on the same track, the outcome can be anticipated. See Annette\u2019s paper The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithm<\/a><\/em> for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Pink\u2019s keynote on day two further opened the gap between the futures introduced by Governments as they ask us to consider the consequences of global temperatures rising above 1.5 degrees, and our weekly routines that we repeat day by day. Paraphrasing Sarah: \u201cthe question is, what happens in our real Mondays, and the Mondays that we are encouraged to imagine? and how are they different?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You get a sense of the gap that Sarah is talking about in the Smart Homes for Seniors trailer below. Produced by her team at the Emerging Technologies Research Lab<\/a>, Monash, using digital ethnographic documentary film making as method. Full movie available here: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/630504939 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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