Amina Abbas-Nazari

Dear the Future investigates how people conceptualise the idea of the future and explores how much control they feel they have over managing uncertainty. 

Through curated conversation, workshops and events I am encouraging a notion of prescribing the future over trying to predict it. Also dismissing the idea of 'master plans' in favour of developing 'a million little utopias'. This project came from considering how we seem to have lost the ability to be imaginative, maybe even feel positively, about the future especially when compared to say the 1950s and '60s. 

The project is set in Old Street, also known as 'Tech City', a place with an uncertain future after the government's imposed ideology to develop the tech start-up economy was met with ferocious property development. I'm meeting with people who live and work in the area to discuss what they would like for the future of this location. Through an event, workshop and interviews I encourage the public to think beyond the current constraining systems of reality to imagine a future they would really want for the world. I then prototype these visions to contrast the current situation.  I'm experimenting with fostering creative thinking about tomorrow for encouraging critical conversation about today.