Future Design Lab Cymru is an initiative started to create a creative and playful atmosphere to explore different concepts of the future. The future is a contested place, with different drivers, narratives, and images swirling around in the media, within our communities, and within our imaginations. The aim of Future Design Lab Cymru is to create an open up an ‘awyrgylch’ (a mood, atmosphere, literally translates from Welsh as ‘an circle of air’), a place for dialogue about the future between different generations.
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Each Future Design Lab Cymru session will involve a specific creative methodology for interrogating the future, themed specifically in line with the Celtic calendar, helping to blend craft, play, and futures methodology. The first two workshops will focus on:
- Imbolc/Gŵyl Forwyn, the first day of spring (Saturday January 31);
- Beltane/ Calan Mai, the beginning of summer (Saturday May 2nd)
For Imbolc / Gŵyl Forwyn, we will be learning briefly about the background into future studies, playing a futures scenario game where we imagine and create possible future artefacts, and lastly, reflect on futures thinking, while celebrating the ligh coming back through the crafting of Brigid’s Crosses.
Each two-hour workshop will be based in Urban HQ – a short walk from the Swansea train station and 12 minute walk from the train station. If turnout is good, we hope to celebrate Lughnasadh (August 1) and Samhain (October 31) together too!
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The convener of Future Design Lab Cymru is Tatiana Bodnar, a final year PhD student at Swansea University studying creative placemaking in South Wales, where she works alongside Urban Foundry.
Her practice involves exploring methods for playful inquiring with the past, present and future. Previously, she was the co-creator of the collective Fluke , that worked to create playful creative public interventions with futures methods where she lived previously in Stockholm This programme is apart of her Future Generations Leadership Academy Change plan, where she hopes to bring futures methods into the public conversation.
Working with Hwb Dyfodol, we hope to provide anyone the opportunity to embrace civic imagination and provide a physical space for futures literacy. This event is open for anyone interested in the future in Wales and beyond, now and for future generations.
Each ticket is 5 pounds and the ticket price includes tea/coffee. You are to welcome to join the group after for lunch at Urban HQ’s kitchen.
