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- | ==== Culture | + | ==== Culture |
- | notes from [[scenario_design_201310]] | + | Notes from [[scenario_design_201310]] |
- | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/10190865095/}} | + | <html><a href="http://nationalmirroronline.net/ |
+ | In a world ravaged by climate chaos and perpetual economic, social and cultural upheaval fuelled by blinded (and blinding) neoliberal dogmatism, Future Fabulators emerge as a troupe of travelling storytellers, | ||
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+ | Their experiments fall on fertile ground. Fragmented, frustrated communities unable to see themselves in the optimistic rhetoric of the powers that be rise up and turn the stories into reality, the future forecasts into immediate action. Future Fabulators adopt the mantle of the oral storytellers of old – sharing tidings, skills and narratives about survival and survivalism; | ||
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+ | They travel slowly, using arcane means of transport, vehicles that are a bricolage of archaic and future technologies. Their troupe is distributed widely across Europe, and while they might meet only once every few years, most of the time they work remotely, connected through online storytelling systems and dust-swept archives. Along the way they participate in non-market-based sharing economies, local pockets of hope amidst much fatigue, disease and death. They help instigate and maintain new social and political movements, some of which originated in their own previous experiments. A sparkle of hope – but one you never know when or where might appear, before dissolving into darkness again… | ||
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