Catherine Van Holder dompelt je onder in de wereld van de futurologie. Dit heeft niets te maken met UFO’s en aliens, wel met de de vaardigheden om een toekomst te kunnen verbeelden én vormgeven. Hoe zit het met de ‘toekomst-geletterdheid’ van de cultuursector?

1. H Y B R I D
F U T U R E S
contextualising (digital) change to
leap into the future(s) of our
civilisation
@cvanholder

2. Project title Client
on the rise and fall of civilisation
“Civilisations break down, not
because the barbarians break in.
It’s a matter of self-inflicted
damage, marked by a loss of
creative capacity.”
A. Toynbee - A Study of History

3. We are suffering from the crash of our old
institutions, we are also pioneering a new
civilization. That means living with high
uncertainty. It means expecting disequilibria
and upset. And it means no one has the full
and final truth about where we are going -
or even where we should go.
//
Alvin Tofler

4. an open timeframe into the future…
automatisering
digitalisering
globalisering
decentralisering
information
overload
on-demand
society
prosumers
neoliberalisering
…

5. “A Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the
Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring
since the middle of the last century. It is
characterized by a fusion of technologies that is
blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and
biological spheres.

7. 3 H O R I Z O N S
M O D E L
often it’s impossible or difficult to innovate into the third horizon,
without going through some incremental steps

8. We mustn’t be caught by surprise by our own
advancing technologies. This has happend again
and again in history. and suddenly people have
found themselves in a situation which they didn’t
foresee and doing all sorts of things that they
didn’t really want to do.
//
Aldous Huxley
a value based look into the future

9. exploring the world ahead
through FUTURES
anthropology
“Anthropology is an
enterprise ‘energised by the
tension between speculative
inquiry into what life could be
like and a knowledge rooted
in particular experience, of
what life is like for people of
particular times and
places." (Ingold 2014:393)

10. “bibliotheken : ontsluiten van kennis
- gaande van alfabetisering van geestelijken in
de Oudheid” tot de openbare bibliotheek in de
Nieuwe Tijd als een instrument in de
democratisering van de maatschappij. “
//
//
vorming van de geest.
gemeenschapsvorming
….

11. “The story is one of the basic
tools invented by the human
mind for the purpose of
understanding. There have been
great societies that did not use
the wheel, but there have been
no societies that did not tell
stories.”
Ursula Le Guin.
Joseph Campbell

12. WHAT IF
stories are to become told and knowledge acquired in real life contexts
rather than meditated through books and screens or being located on stage?
Magic Leap

13. Using augmented
reality’s capabilities at revealing
new story worlds, unearthing
hidden secrets and bringing
invisible culture to life to enable
us to re-encounter the
landscape through a new kind of
reality. Melding together fact
and fiction, time and space, past
and present the story takes you
back to 1790 where the past
needs your help to save the
future of sealife.
Secret Coast Immersive Storylab

14. A traveling live-music mashup
involving cell phones, big
screens, indie rockers and
meandering actors. Props and
characters from the movie
appeared onstage throughout
the performance. Onscreen
prompts encourage the crowd to
dial phone numbers that lead
moviegoers through a maze of
internet clues for solving random
riddles. The hooded character
joins in the dialing, shouting
rants like, “I know things about
you that no one else knows.” An
amazing 84 percent of the 100-
plus crowd dialed the onstage
phone numbers.
Lance Weiler. Head Trauma

15. Carne & Arena Inarritu
Carne y Arena is a
groundbreaking virtual reality
installation that allows the viewer
to go inside the story and
explore the human condition of
immigrants

17. … we are moving into a
landscape where art and
science, design and
engineering are inseparable.
At their intersection lies the
new creative laboratory for
the future of our narrative
practices.
“
Alex McDowell

18. WHAT IF
libraries become not only gatekeepers of knowledge
but of a culture of commons in general?

20. a tale of multiple futures
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in
promising or not-so-promising ways.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. …”
April Rinne

22. products/services as a common

23. In Copenhagen, citizens can
access most libraries and other
facilities such as sports halls,
using their social security card,
after opening hours. Meeting
rooms in culture houses and
recess centers can be booked
online and some of those spaces
can be accessed by local
residents with the same card. In
this way, it is more than empty
words, when the libraries’ website
explains: you own the key to the
City. By trusting people in their
use of the place, the “open library”
program contributes maybe to
making people feel responsible for
this common good.
copenhagen open library program

24. https://heinilehtinen.com

25. .. —

26. Perspective API

27. The mediator between the head
and the hands must be the heart
Metropolis Fritz Lang

28. the task at hand is not to be
underestimated in
complexity, but make no
mistake, neither is it’s
importance. the future of our
civilisation depends on it.
“

29. thanks.
let’s meet in the future.
// THE END
Catherine Van Holder @cvanholder - catherine@pantopicon.be