Words of the Future is a publication project by dramaturge Nienke Scholts, in collaboration with Veem House for Performance.<\/p>\n
If you were to propose a word for the future, what would it be? What language would it be in? How would this word sound when you say it out loud? What would this sound evoke in peoples minds? What would it perform?<\/p>\n
Words can conjure up worlds. With language we can name, describe and give birth. It is said that we are within a so-called crisis of imagination; that we can\u2019t imagine alternatives for the current dominant systems that are failing. What does that say about language and the way we use it, and what potential is there in language to change this crisis? If we want to reimagine our ways of being in and with the world, could we then start to describe it differently?<\/p>\n
Words for the Future is a many-voiced series of ten words that point to the possible imaginations of various futures. Ten people from diverse fields of knowledge \u2013 ecology, sociology, experimental architecture, education, linguistics, philosophy, i.e. \u2013 are asked to propose a word for the future. Each of them writes a text that unfolds the desired or foreseen way of thinking or doing, this word defines for them. At the same time an artist, in whose work this particular word seems already latently present, is invited to respond to it. By bringing both the essay and the artistic responds together in one publication, each issue becomes a dialogue around one word. The texts and images that arose seem not only as glimpses of what possibly lies ahead, even more perhaps, these words and visions are engagements with the present. With this vocabulary of re-imagined words we might be able to begin to speak about the yet unnamed imaginaries that we notice around us, and have for the future.
\nEnjoy the journey through the worlds of these words.<\/p>\n
UNDECIDABILITY
\nSilvia Bottiroli \u2013 performing arts curator, researcher
\nJozef Wouters \u2013 artist, scenographer<\/p>\n
Other issues in this series so far:<\/p>\n
ECO-SWARAJ
\nAshish Kothari \u2013 environmentalist
\nRodrigo Sobarzo \u2013 performance artist<\/p>\n
LIQUID
\nRachel Armstrong \u2013 experimental architect, synthetic biologist & Andrea Bo\u017ei\u0107 & Julia Willms | TILT \u2013 artists, choreography + visual arts<\/p>\n
OTHERNESS
\nDaniel L. Everett \u2013 lingu\u00efst & Sarah Moeremans \u2013 theatre maker, director<\/p>\n
PRACTICAL VISION
\nMoses Kilolo | Jalada \u2013 pan-African writers + translators + publishers collective & Klara van Duijkeren & Vincent Schipper | The Future \u2013 designer, printer<\/p>\n
TENSE
\nSimon(e) van Saarloos \u2013 writer, philosopher & Eilit Marom, Anna Massoni, Elpida Orfanidou, Adina Secretan & Simone Truong \u2013 team, creators of (To) Come and to See.<\/p>\n
HOPE
\nGurur Ertem \u2013 cultural sociologist
\nOgutu Muraya \u2013 storyteller, theatre maker<\/p>\n
To order the whole series, please contact Books on the Move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authors:<\/strong> Nienke Scholts, Silvia Bottiroli, Jozef Wouters Paperback:<\/strong>\u00a016 pages
\nDesigner\/publisher:<\/strong> Print the Future, Amsterdam (2017)<\/p>\n
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