Crie Futuros: Movimento para criação de futuro desejáveis

Create Futures: a Movement for the creation of desirable futures

Why?
As we look at the past of the future, it becomes clear that much of what exists today has been previously dreamed of: from the 20’s throughout to the 40’s there are many images of video-conferences, notebooks, cars, cities that lack a human scale, home theater, drive through, fast food, video-surgery, machines to cash money, microwave ovens, etc.

Nowadays, the images of the future that mass media disseminates are scary, sad, hostiles.

It is necessary to dream and plant seeds of images and ideas of desirable futures that can inspire innovation and orientate choices, above all aimed at the change of models that we need for a better, desirable and possible world.

Having this in mind we created the IberoAmerican Create Futures Movement that develops methodologies and digital platforms to facilitate the creation of desirable futures. One of these is the www.criefuturos,com, a multimedia encyclopedia of desirable futures which already has an important collection of created futures.

Create Futures wants to motivate and mobilize, inspire choices and identify opportunities for innovation. Through meetings and on line activities, it invites people, communities and institutions to answer the question: “If everything was possible, which future would you wish for?”

Em 2009 o Movimento avançou bastante, graças ao apoio da Agência Espanhola de Cooperação Internacional ao Desenvolvimento (AECID) e ao Programa Novos Brasis/Oi Futuro. Passamos a ter Nodos Iberoamericanos no Uruguai (Traful), Espanha (Transit),Republica Dominicana (Revista Lengua), Peru (Realidad Virtual), Chile (Mosaico Cultural), Argentina (Centro de Expresiones Contemporâneas). No Uruguai o trabalho segue com bastante força e Crie Futuros foi considerado de utilidade pública. http://www.traful.org.uy.

• In Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina with Las Américas, touring exhibition to celebrate the Bicentennials of Independence  - more info at http://wiki.lasamericasexpo.com/
• In the FILE, International  Electronic Languages Festival, http://www.file.org.br, with  an installation that allows the public to create futures in text, drawing and audio which are published in the wikifuturos becoming accessible to others to access, get to now, and edit.