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 "Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful and everything conceals something else."—Italo Calvino


This is a film about how cities imagine their futures and the methods they use to manage them. Today, the future looms over cities in a hyperconnected tangle of crises. Sharpening inequalities, carbon climate feedback, technological acceleration, and opaque financial infrastructures combine in a clamor for new ideas, new plans, and new methods. But city futures are never just about cities and they are never just about futures; they are about policies and deals, actors and sectors, ideas and theories, instruments and methods. They are about places, sunk in space, meshed across regions and nations, and curved across the globe. They are inherently and dynamically relational and radically contingent. Between the acknowledged past and the imagined future, the lines connecting land and water, science and industry, government and universities, people and money, are the formula, the twisted helix meant to fix the trouble we’re in.


A film by:

Sapphire Goss. Sapphire is a British artist who works with experimental moving image and photographic processes to create an "analogue uncanny." Her work has been shown widely in exhibitions, performances, and events globally.


Produced, written, and narrated by:

Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh. Professor McFall is Personal Chair in the Sociology of Markets and Director of Data Civics Observatory at Edinburgh Futures Institute. Liz is founding editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy. She has published several journal articles and is the author of Devising Consumption: Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending (Routledge 2014), Advertising: a Cultural Economy (Sage 2004), and co-edited the collection Markets and the Arts of Attachment (Routledge 2017).


Discussion by:
John Bruce, School of Design Strategies at Parsons
Evren Uzer, PhD, School of Design Strategies at Parsons

 

Presented by MS Strategic Design and Management and Transdisciplinary Design MFA.