Issue #8 Preparing for the Unknown

Most of the time forecasts about the future are based on today. Prophecies end up being smaller adjustments of the existing. By painting a picture of the future you have automatically gone into the trap, consciously or not, acquiring knowledge needed to fulfill the prediction. What if it’s wrong? The future will always be unknown.
CONTENTS
Friction Addiction
Interview w Paul Nesgaard
Future Shocks
Gerard Reinmuth
From Russia with Love
Interview w Ilya Oskolkov Tsentsiper
Architectured Quest for the Unknown
Sabin Bors
Cities of the Avant-Garde
Illustration by Wai Architecture Think Tank
Building the Future or For the Future?
Fredrik Torisson
The Brief Future of Accepting the History
Mika Savela
Research and Practice
Interview w Josep Lluís Mateo
Escape Plan
Project by Nathan Petty
The Accuracy of Far-Future Predictions
Jason Lee
Are You Ready for the Unexpected?
Franziska Hederer and Federico Favero
The Conditions Challenge: Education
Phenomenology of a Concrete Storytelling
Antonio Scarpino
What If? -The Scenario-Method as a Design Tool
Adeline Seidel
The Future That Was: Shanghai´s Semiotic Ghosts
Rutger Huiberts
Swinging the Lamp
Christina Ampatzidou and Giuseppe Licari
The Harvard Recipe
Interview w Mohsen Mostafavi
This For That
David Huber
The Mediators
Interview w Fantastic Norway
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