🌀 Timescaping Session: Imagine the Year 2125
Are you ready to be surprised by your own imagination?
It’s the year 2125. Society has transformed.
Are those changes driven by new technologies? A shift in values? New forms of relationships?
You’ll explore the answers, guided by your own imagination.
Timescaping is the practice of imagining aspects of society 100 years into the future, a horizon far enough to transcend current trends, yet close enough to feel like an extension of today.
By turning the doomsday volume down a notch 📉, we can think more clearly about resilient, collaborative, and intelligent futures. But if your imagination leans dystopian, that’s welcome too! 👾
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🧭 What to Expect
This interactive session is part game, part collective thought experiment, and part mental reset. With the help of carefully crafted prompts you’ll stretch your imagination, alone and with others.
The session is facilitate by Cristian, which will guide you through:
🔹 Future-themed icebreakers to loosen the brain
🔹 Group activities
🔹 One-on-one conversations with fellow participants
Together, we’ll explore questions like:
✨ Would you rather live with an AI partner that perfectly meets your needs, or a flawed but real human?
✨ If no one had to work, how would we define purpose?
✨ How might we care for each other in a world that has redefined life, death, and community?
And others on themes like: Amortality, Post-work society, Mixed Reality, Climate Restoration, Space Colonization, Android Rights, Quantum Computers, Augmented Humans, Shared Minds, Bioengineering, Space Geopolitics, Mars Terraforming, General Artificial Intelligence, New Social Contracts, Virtual communities, AI powered governance, Consciousness Upload, Robot pets…
“The more we talk about the future, the more we end up talking about ourselves.”
Timescaping isn’t about predicting what will happen.
It’s about exploring what could happen, and in doing so, revealing the assumptions we hold today.
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🧠 Join!
Expect to meet curious people, share surprising thoughts, and make new connections. It’s guided but informal, a creative space for bold ideas. Participants often describe it as a moment of creative expansion, mental clarity (and confusion at the same time), and connection with others.
Whether you're into philosophy, tech, art, or just looking for something beautifully unexpected to do on a Sunday, this is for you.
Timescaping invites you to slow down and expand,
to wonder, together, what kind of futures are worth moving toward. 🚀🌍
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📌 Details
🗓️ Date: Sunday 18 May
🕝 Time: 14:30–16:30
📍 Location: CultureHub, Willem Buytewechstraat 144a, Rotterdam
🔗More info: www.22ndcenturyhub.com
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🗣️ After previous sessions, I asked the participants:
“What’s in it for you? ” Here’s what came up:
- A mental reset for long-term thinking. It acts as a primer for what happens next. Participants break free from immediate concerns and step into a world where constraints are lifted.
- A fresh sense of possibility. Projecting 100 years into the future creates space for radical yet relevant ideas, helping participants see today’s challenges from new perspectives.
- A hopeful perspective. Instead of feeling weighed down by uncertainty, participants leave energized and excited about the future. Imagining progress, rather than just reacting to crises, shifts the mindset toward opportunity.
- Deeper conversations. The session unlocks discussions that don’t happen in everyday life and elevates morale.
- Engaging different modes of thinking. Participants describe it as activating new brainwaves, stepping beyond the usual analytical mindset into a more fluid, speculative, and systemic way of thinking.
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About Cristian
When he is not busy as as a performing artist, Cristian is passionate about creating the conditions to help individual and collective brains unlock their creativity and collaborate in harmonious ways. Over the past 10 years, he has organized workshops and events on various themes for diverse communities, from professional development workshops for young creatives to co-creation sessions for renewable energy professionals, and speaker events for the urban dance community.The Timescaping session is his latest project, through which he is researching the impact of imagining the distant future in a collaborative way.
