WHAT’S NEXT?
POSTCARDS from the FUTURE
(NASA Image, 2023; IPCC Report 2022; NASA Environmental Report 2023)
With POSTCARDS from
SOUTHERN AMERICA
NORTHERN AMERICA
AFRICA
NORTHERN EUROPE
CENTRAL and
SOUTHERN EUROPE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
In this moment of seemingly compounding global crises and existential concerns about the planet's future, it seems that there is no point of return. However, as Norwegian philosopher ArneNæss highlighted, this might not be true.
Delving into new ways of imagining the transitioning towards a climate-resilient future cohabitation between humans and non-human species and the redefinition of borders, distances, among and between contrasting and disparate proximities—of individuals, groups, society, species, and practices in space—will define alternatives, sometimes utopian strategies and vision to address the pressing issue of climate change. To investigate those modalities and especially reopen the debate on the role of landscape, urbanism and architecture, the exhibition gives voice to designers and thinkers of the future.
It asks them what is the possible alternative future in which we will live and how: What’s next? In this online and physical exhibition, as Paola Vigano affirms, we value the role of imagination, visions, and utopians, not as a way to make fantasies but as a critical way to investigate realities.
What’s Next? Exhibits different ideas about designing the transition of our territories, cities, and everyday spaces worldwide. The different projects, each with a unique and innovative approach, are categorized and located according to impact zones and might be seen online and physically in Vienna, both in postcard form sent from the future.
Each postcard highlights a constant dialogue between our current living conditions and future possibilities that we can create. Get ready to be inspired by the future we can shape together.
Each postcard highlights a constant dialogue between our current living conditions and future possibilities that we can create. Get ready to be inspired by the future we can shape together.
SOUTHERN AMERICA
Barranquilla, Colombia
Valentina Mier, Arturo Morales, Diana Tinoco
Atlantic Ocean
Jeroni Mach Raubert
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Luísa Ferreira Martins
NORTHERN AMERICA
Quebec, Canada
Simonetta D'Ovidio, Frédérique Gélinas, Roberta Longo
San Rafael, California USA
Anna Niubo Bermejo, Florencia Sepúlveda Trucco, Vermouth Li
San Rafael, California USA
Lian Mae Tualla, Mark Auerbach, and Sebastian Gaviria Gomez
San Rafael, California USA
Lex Benes, Yanyao Cui, Danica Bowers
San Rafael, California USA
Grace Diebel, Gustavo Coronilla, Keixin Zhang
San Rafael, California USA
Henry Peters, Shayda Rishidi, Abbie Cheng
San Rafael, California USA
Nicolas Lira, Taylor Wallace, Madeira BooydeGraaff
San Rafael, California USA
Justine Ecker, Ali Dooley, Jiangyi Du
AFRICA
Terrain Kunene, Namibia
Mia Barnard
Cape Town, South Africa
Nomfundo Mthembu
NORTHERN EUROPE
London, United Kingdom
Ventsislav Kartselin
Groningen, Netherlands
Jakob Pesendorfer, Fruzsina Kovács,
Marina Deffner, Yuhang Zhai, Floor Schepel
Brugge, Belgium
Hasan Hashas
Parkstad, Netherlands
Lea Hartmeyer
Zaanstad, Netherlands
Aleksandra Kurkierewicz
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Evgenia Vamvakousi, Frithasya Jeniardina Purba,
Kristupas Kadys, Nikita Ham, Sebestyen Pfisztner
South Holland, Netherlands
Vaibhav Kumar Bansal, Thijs de Boer,
JP Boersma, Jelle Schotanus, Wiebke Stadtlander
Netherlands
Alina Bruder, Filip Kortmann,
Feline Kaaij, Gilles Hermanns, Manou Driessen
Osnabrück, Germany
Kristin Karsten
Garzweiler, Germany
Diego Regalado, Maria Romanosova, Dogu Tonkur, Zofia Zatorska
CENTRAL and SOUTHERN EUROPE
Vienna, Austria
Leon Morscher
Vienna, Austria
Hui Liu
Vienna, Austria
Karolina Alin Marvarics
Venice, Italy
Flore Guichot, Nathan Fredrick, Francesco Lombardi
Venice, Italy
Margherita Tempo, Chiara Arnoldo, Federica Alessia Iossa,
Teresa Bertole, Emma Scanavacca
Milano, Italy
Memo Sánchez Cárdenas, Kevin Santus, Jacopo Taccari
Rome, Italy
Giordana Panella, Giancarlo Scarascia Mugnozza
Rome, Italy
Ilaria Maurelli
Western Macedonia, Greece
Anna Kalligeri Skentzou
Mesagne, Italy
Daniele Rolli
El Prat del Loblegrad, Spain
Cecilia Gonzalez Muñoz Ledo
El Prat del Loblegrad, Spain
Salma Marghich
ASIA
New Delhi, India
Disha Arora
El Prat del Loblegrad, Spain
Salma Marghich
Globally
Nina Kugler
AUSTRALIA