The city was not utopian. Black markets for illegal AI existed constantly. Smuggled neural assistants circulated among students and corporations. Some citizens argued Austin had become nostalgic and anti-scientific. Others believed the city had simply remembered something essential that the rest of civilization had forgotten: human beings needed to remain necessary to one another.

After decades of climate instability, rising sea levels, and ecological collapse across California, the city abandoned the old idea that humans should dominate nature through endless urban expansion. Instead, Santa Cruz rebuilt itself around Haraway’s concept of multispecies coexistence, where humans, plants, animals, fungi, and technologies exist as interconnected partners within a living ecosystem

This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 urban settings across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change and social discord and gone on to flourish anew. Today, we highlight the future of Krakow, Poland.

This project plans to forecast the future of the 10,000 urban settings across the globe -- as though they have survived climate change, global warfare, and social discord and evolved onward to flourish anew. Today, we publish a report from the future -- from a time traveler to 22nd century Morrocco...

Looking back, historians would say the partnership succeeded because it did not try to erase the past, but to respond to it. The wars, the sanctions, the cycles of suspicion had all revealed the limits of power built on control. By the time the oil ran low, both nations understood that survival—let alone prosperity—depended on something else entirely. On Kharg Island, that realization took physical form: sunlight captured and shared, knowledge exchanged without domination, an

This urban studies project employs various techniques to forecast a wide range of potential future urban environments. One technique involves extrapolations from historical trends and another involves analysis of emerging technologies. Another technique used is the Literary Method of Urban Design, which leverages literary works to forecast possible future urban scenarios. This blog post focuses on one urban setting in Estonia, that is, the city of Tartu.

Walk through a forest or a Mediterranean hillside and it appears silent, yet science increasingly suggests that this quiet is an illusion shaped by human limitation. Plants, once thought to be passive organisms, are now understood to emit and respond to subtle vibrations and acoustic signals that exist beyond the range of human hearing. These signals, often ultrasonic or extremely low-frequency, can emerge from internal processes such as cavitation in water transport systems,

The future of Brazil

In the year 2121, the city of Luxembourg City looked less like a conventional capital and more like a living forest threaded with streets.

The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow become super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future utopia of Katun in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia.