How might creative disciplines serve as gateways to forge new ecological possibility - to prototype alternative realities at the fringes - to frame slices of complexity? What role can the designer and artist of the 21st century take to reimagine our relationship to nature - to work beyond medium - as collaborator? G. Mazzetta

"Until futurology provides scientifically verifiable methods, ethics depends on artists, philosophers, and other speculative minds to radically think this future through for us [...] it continues to depend on the power of imagination and fiction created in the present, based on the empirical certainties and historical knowledge we presume are valid today."

—Pascal Gielen, Situational Aesthetics