“In this world, it is not so much the case that the possibility of a future is acertained from the point of view of the present, but that reality is always already entangled with the ‘not-yet’, the ‘yet-to-come’, the ‘what-if’, the ‘already-here, that is, with a sense of the (im)possible. (...) Because it is impossible to know in advance just in which direction the future will unfold, our obligation is to experiment, to travel, to explore the contours, the possibilities.” (Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures, by Wilkie, Savransky & Rosengarten, 2017:8)

Our current crisis is not only about the environment and the climate, but it is also a crisis of the imagination. By expanding how we imagine futures, we can see the present differently and change what we think or do now.

For five days (24-29/03/2023), eighteen students of the ULB Faculty of Architecture accepted the invitation to collectively dream of futures that would help us suturing the “great scission” between humans and the living earth, between culture and nature. This scission is a legacy of modernity and is at the root of the construction of contemporary cities.

This exhibition shows the stories and hand-drawings produced during those days while listening or partaking in the discussion with a group of guests and among the students themselves, in a humble attempt to anticipate a more-than-human urban future.