About Playing Futures

This blog was intended to be about everything related to the ‘future’. More specifically, I was planning to write about ‘the futures multiple’, the ones we often fail to imaging and pursue, instead following the same old way of thinking, and of doing things. It was partly inspired by my work projects back then (or rather by my growing dissatisfaction with how we approached the ‘future studies’ in the office; I thought then, and still do think now that we have to apply much more creative and playful methods when exploring the possible futures. Therefore the word ‘playing (with) futures’ was coined.)

On the other side, I was always interested in whole range of other disciplines and practices, such as contemporary art, modern, postmodern and post-postmodern philosophy, psychology, design and other related things, so I thought this blog will give the space (and the reason) to write about all those.

Later this concept of ‘playing the futures’ became a founding principle and a working approach of my new company, called Summ()n. It even went to its slogan, ‘We summon the futures. For you to play with them now.’ But instead of propelling this blog further, the company’s activities depleted it, since I now tend to write more ‘serious’ thoughts about ‘playing futures’ in the company blog. This blog became a collection of more random musements and of visual associations related to the ‘futures’ of all sorts.

Also, and this is perhaps more important, this blog was always competing with my other, Russian-language blog I kept on Livejournal. Most recent disappointing developments with LJ (too long and too complex story to tell) discouraged me to write there, and so I started to write mostly here. Unfortunately, stand-alone blogs are much less entertaining to run, compare to the one in large blogging communities. But may be I need a bit of silence for a while.