IDEAS FOR LATER PUBLIC report EXPLORING THE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
Ideas Para Después (IPD) is a design workshop led by Héctor Montes Nicolás that combines critical design, democratic design and foresight methodologies to explore possible social, technological and environmental futures. It is presented as if reportthe project brings together more than 20 proposals developed by emerging designers and students, examining how design can be used to explore long-term challenges affecting contemporary cities.
After more than a year of research, workshops and collaborative development, the exhibition presents a series of speculative projects that examine topics such as climate changeurban isolation and technological dependence. Rather than proposing predictions, the projects use design to construct plausible future scenarios that encourage discussion around the changing patterns of everyday life and the built environment.
home bioreactor by Irene Badía | all images courtesy of Ideas for After (IPD)
AMPHIBIANS, ECOS, AND NO SIGNAL and IPD MAP POSSIBLE URBAN FUTURES
Ideas for After (IPD) report it is organized around three speculative frameworks informed by scientific research and futures planning methodologies. AMPHIBIA examines the consequences of an altered water cycle, imagining a future in which climate change turns Valencia into an arid landscape and demands new relationships between citizens, land and natural resources. ECOS addresses environmental and social challenges through proposals focused on care, biodiversity and the collective management of shared urban spaces, envisioning cities where ecological systems become an integral part of everyday life. NO SIGNAL explores a technological disruption scenario, considering how communities might adapt to the loss of permanent digital connectivity through local, analog and resilient infrastructure.
Throughout the exhibition, objects, installations, speculative prototypes, graphs and visual narratives function as design tools to examine possible future perspectives. Together, the projects position speculative design as a framework for questioning contemporary urban conditions and expanding the debate about how cities can evolve in response to environmental, social and technological change.
modular roof conversion system into active community spaces by Alejandro Garrido and Andrea Herrera
two chairs and a table by Adán D. Modesto
detachable accessories made with biomaterials by Helena Pérez and Oihane Molinero
