Saúl Baeza, Juan Ezcurra, Photo: Yosigo
Font: Fraser Muggeridge
There is a broad consensus that we are living at the end — of the democratic system, liberalism, capitalism, a healthy planet, the Holocene, civilisation as we know it. What if we consider radical futures and visions of coming justice emerging from Generation Z? What are their realities materialised in experimental visual cultural practices, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements? The narratives of current Western design are discouraging, dominated by stories centred on technology. They are expressed in products and scenarios that celebrate consumption, progress, and economic growth, ignoring the impact on the planet, people, and other species, and the potential ecological ruin and the promise of a technologically mediated era. All of this is so widespread that it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine other possibilities.