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future_fabulators:culture_as_nature [2013-10-25 13:03] – nikfuture_fabulators:culture_as_nature [2013-12-17 12:31] – Links to future_fabulators:scenario_design_201310 changed to future_fabulators:future_fabulators_legacy maja
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 +As climate chaos ravages the globe, progressive developments in culture and society have paradoxically heralded an era of growing social stability, connectedness, and enlightenment amidst natural and human-made calamities. Humans now mainly live underground and in glass cupolas which range in size from that of houses to vast cities. Long tunnels connect these population centres, and enormous dams have been constructed to prevent flooding. Continuous storms rage across the earth's surface, and almost nothing survives for long above ground. Humans can make only brief, heavily protected expeditions above ground. Agriculture is difficult and expensive, animal and plant life everywhere endangered and on the brink of complete extinction.
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 +In these extreme conditions, Future Fabulators have become one node in a collective social tissue that works to maintain and evolve connections between culture, nature, science and art within and between communities. Their task is challenging, but the circumstances have actually brought people together to face hardships in solidarity, and the importance of FF's role in this collective is universally recognised. They are closely involved in connecting and translating between several newly emerging institutions and sciences whose focus is the natural world and the rediscovery of ways to live in harmony and equilibrium with ecosystems. School curriculums are centred on ecology, and plant and animal narratives are taught from the earliest age. Communication between plants, animals and humans is becoming a reality. Future Fabulators work to entwine these threads in narratives that connect, inspire and evolve communities, ensuring their resilience and creativity while working towards a better future.
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 **Earth planet, Spring  2050** **Earth planet, Spring  2050**
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 Communication among humans on the plated is till possible. A new currier of information bits has been harnessed: the wind. As nothing else more consistent that wind particles would hold the continuous storms that beat the surface of the earth. Humans now live mainly underground. Long tunnels connect the cities, and big powerful dams prevent floods to infiltrate the inhabited zones. Nothing or almost nothing survives on the surface for very long. We can only go out to the surface without protections for short trips. A few days maximum, and those days out on the open air, are extremely dangerous situations. We survive longer times under our super strong glass cupolas on the crust of the earth. Some are as small as houses, some are as big as cities, some are so many and so close together and form nations. But life is hard in this way. Agriculture is expensive, and animals and plants are at stakes. Only humans seem to be resilient and creative, surviving in every condition and trying to bring the rest of the plant through this into a better future.  Communication among humans on the plated is till possible. A new currier of information bits has been harnessed: the wind. As nothing else more consistent that wind particles would hold the continuous storms that beat the surface of the earth. Humans now live mainly underground. Long tunnels connect the cities, and big powerful dams prevent floods to infiltrate the inhabited zones. Nothing or almost nothing survives on the surface for very long. We can only go out to the surface without protections for short trips. A few days maximum, and those days out on the open air, are extremely dangerous situations. We survive longer times under our super strong glass cupolas on the crust of the earth. Some are as small as houses, some are as big as cities, some are so many and so close together and form nations. But life is hard in this way. Agriculture is expensive, and animals and plants are at stakes. Only humans seem to be resilient and creative, surviving in every condition and trying to bring the rest of the plant through this into a better future. 
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