On Futures: Maite Borjabad López-Pastor and Emmet Byrne

Emmet Byrne, Design Director and Associate Curator of Design, Walker Art Center and Maite Borjabad López-Pastor, Neville Bryan Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design, are two of the team curators behind the exhibition Designs for Different Futures. Organized by the Walker Art Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Designs for Different Futures brings together some 80 dynamic works that address the challenges and opportunities that humans may encounter in the years, decades, and centuries ahead. Among the questions raised by the designers in the show: What role can technology play in augmenting or replacing a broad range of human activities? How can we negotiate privacy in a world in which the sharing and use of personal information has blurred traditional boundaries? How might we use design to help heal or transform ourselves, bodily and psychologically? Ultimately, the exhibition asks: Who shapes future?

“On Futures” is a series highlighting how designers, artists, curators, and writers envision alternative cultural and architectural temporalities that map out an expansive range of possible futures.

Crew Credits:

Production:
Creator and Executive Producer – Hernán Díaz Alonso
Producers – Marcelyn Gow/Reza Monahan
Segment Producer/Interviewer – Mimi Zeiger

Post-Production:
Story Producer – Vivian Charlesworth
Editors – TinDragon Media/Reza Monahan
Sound Mixer – Christina Nguyen
VFX – Rocco Basille

Soundtrack: “November Walk at Night” and “Pure Refaces Experiment” by Lobo Loco
License – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Additional Images and Video Provided by Maite Borjabad López-Pastor and Emmet Byrne