Mission

The re:future lab's strength lies in its ability to merge avant-garde discourses and practices in art, design and architecture with futurology, science and technology. It helps individuals, business and institutions cope with the unknown, uncertainty, fragmentation and complexity.

Our team of experts, joined by hand-picked faculty and artists, exclusively share their vision and applied research, focusing on the stakes and threats facing arts and culture leaders, strategic managers, startups, and creatives. Hope provides the impetus; scalable solutions emerge in the process.

Our modus operandi is a discursive program aimed at provoking critical debate and exploring how to surf complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty through the prism of art, interwoven with the most advanced fields of hard and soft disciplines (architecture, design, biology, anthropology, philosophy, political science...).

In addition to internal programs and external services, EMBARK! is an artistic research project by Madeleine Schwinge, published by the re:future lab. It gives a voice to change agents shaking the norms and status quo, and dealing with some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Artists and experts from a wide range of disciplines answer the same 5 question interview: What role could art play as a catalyst? Is there still hope? What impact might transdisciplinarity have? How does narratives feed imagination? What are your personal creative strategies when entering a new process?

The result is a corpus of the most forefront visionaries, literally crafting a new epoch.