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What do you think of when you think of the future?

FUTURES is the first building-wide exploration of the future and spans 32,000 square feet inside the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building. Opening November 20, 2021, and on view until July 6, 2022, FUTURES is your guide to a vast array of interactives, artworks, technologies, and ideas that are glimpses into humanity’s next chapter. You are, after all, only the latest in a long line of future makers.

Smell a molecule. Clean your clothes in a wetland. Meditate with an AI robot. Travel through space and time. Watch water being harvested from air. Become an emoji. The FUTURES is yours to decide, debate, delight. We invite you to dream big, and imagine not just one future, but many possible futures on the horizon—playful, sustainable, inclusive. In moments of great change, we dare to be hopeful. How will you create the future you want to live in?

FUTURES Part exhibition, part festival, FUTURES presents nearly 32,000 square feet of new immersive site-specific art installations, interactives, working experiments, inventions, speculative designs, and “artifacts of the future,” as well as historic objects and discoveries from 23 of the Smithsonian.....

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Join our new experiential workshop Tangible Memories on Monday, 14 June at 10:00 PT, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CET

In this workshop, the artists Margherita Soldati and Alice Héron will guide you in a series of sensorial exercises that will reconnect you with your body.

Save your spot! Register in our link below!

Tangible Memories with Margherita Soldati and Alice Héron Sensorial workshop exploring memories, feelings and sensations

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Unbore Advisory Board Member Anna Dumitriu will be presenting a talk with UCLA ArtSci Center on her collaborative projects "Fermenting Futures" and "Biotechnology from the Blue Flower".

Exploring emerging future uses of synthetic biology, Dumitriu's talk will focus on notions of the natural and unnatural as well as how these technoscientific potentials could offer solutions to climate change and food security.

Check out the link below for more information and be sure to attend the talk on the 12th May 2021 at 9:00 am PST.

The Unnatural, That Too is Natural: Artistic Explorations in Synthetic Biology | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab Anna Dumitriu will discuss her collaborative projects "Fermenting Futures" and "Biotechnology from the Blue Flower", which focus on the potential of synthetic biology to offer solutions for existential issues such as climate change and food security. She will discuss the methodologies of yeast and p...