Vicky: Depict how you predict 2123 will look. Observe what is around you: how is the environment? How do cities & buildings look; what institutions exist; what about social relationships; behaviours; people\u2019s looks; works; activities (what people do); values; ideologies; dominant trends?<\/em> — This part of the workshop made us realize that we all have different expectations about the future, some negative, some positive.<\/p>\n When we had come this far in the workshop, I realized what we were doing. Vicky asked us to explore our underlying assumptions and emotions<\/strong>! The idea was to make us question and investigate these assumptions and emotions through the images and understand how the assumptions and emotions affect us.<\/p>\n At the end, we were asked to create a new question<\/strong> about the future starting with What if<\/em>\u2026? The questions were humble and included approaching other audiences, working globally, and expressing future visions through art. Before finishing the workshop, we were all asked to complete individually a sentence which started with the words: \u201cIn 2123, the future will mean\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n The aim of the workshop was to open up new ideas. It certainly did!<\/p>\n After finishing, Vicky sent all of us a summary of our individual contributions. Her Chair partner, Sebastian Plate, used AI to summarize our contributions. Based on the answer to the last question and the input during the workshop, he made the AI capture this on my contribution:<\/p>\n Thank you, Vicky, for opening my eyes and for a creative workshop!<\/p>\n Helena Ryd\u00e9n, Assistant to the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After starting off the spring semester at the University, it was time for a Visual Literacy Workshop on Imag(in)ing the Future, run by Vicky Karaiskou, UNESCO Chair on Visual Anticipation and Futures Literacy, based at the Open University of Cyprus. Vicky asked us to send her an image of the future before the workshop. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogg"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"Workshop](\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/209\/files\/sites\/209\/2023\/03\/Helena-300x173.png\")
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