project strands and history

The future archive hosts collaborative projects that engage its discursive-performative method towards research and conversation in various fields.

One of these is the development of a methodology that works along the lines of dialogue, imagin(in)g and remembering that can come to act towards pedagogical, political, cultural and research practices.
The findings of these projects are published on futurearchive.org (with some delay, usually!).

If you would like to play with the method, look here, or if you want to undertake a specific strand get in touch.

Current and past investigatory strands:

 

1. Care networks: collectivity and creativity

a long-term research process on instituting care networks, 2009 - ongoing.



2. Shanghai future functions
   
   some conversations and mappings around creative labour in Shanghai, 2010.
   

3. Procesos de Archivo
   
   an attempt at imagining public institutions, based on Intermediae Madrid, 2008.
   

4. Futuros Cubanos
   
   a series of conversations (for radio) with inhabitants of La Lisa barrio in Havana, 2008.
   

5. The articulation of resistance: activism and activist speech practices
   
   a series of conversations across and beyond the counter-G8 summits of Heiligendamm, 2007.
   

6. Critical Practice

   a series of workshops reflecting on critical collective practice in the arts, 2006/7.
   
   
   
7. Self-Organization?
   
   a series of conversations at the Performing Arts Forum, 2007.
   
   
   
8. playback, playforward
   
   newspaper/pdf publication around critical-political art practices, 2006/7.
   
   
   
9. first elaboration of the future archive and first interviews
   started in 2005 in the context of Manuela finishing her media art studies and were followed by making this website, in 2006.