Staging Futures: Exhibition Making and Design as a Speculation Apparatus

The promise and menace of the future occupies a special place in our collective subconscious—and increasingly, across multiple industries. From speculative design to corporate foresight, from worldbuilding for cinema to new immersive media, the image of the future is being refracted into a widening spectrum of visions and horizons. The plural notion of 'futures' suggests a multiplicity of trajectories and choices for the society and for humankind. How are cultural institutions tapping into this contemporary gyre of obsessing about futures?