The Future Starts Here
100 projects shaping the world of tomorrow
This show is stimulating, inspiring, exciting and challenging
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This exhibition is now closed at V&A South Kensington
From smart appliances to satellites, artificial intelligence to internet culture, this exhibition brought together more than 100 objects as a landscape of possibilities for the near future.
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The Volkswagen Group is a proud partner of The Future Starts Here at the V&A. In aiming to become a world-leading provider of sustainable mobility and driver of digital transformation, we know that innovation needs inspiration. The arts and culture are integral elements of a vibrant society and generate perspectives for its continual development. Therefore we support the arts in unfolding their power to inspire creativity worldwide.
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About The Future Starts Here exhibition
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Interview with DeepMind – Google's AI research lab
Teaching artificially intelligent 'agents’ to play classic 1980s Atari videogames

Project focus | Adrian Lahoud: Climate Crimes
Visualising the flow of aerosol emissions and its subsequent impact on rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa

Designing futures: an ethics of the possible by Arjun Appadurai
What is the role of design in shaping peoples' futures?

Project focus | Cryonics: who wants to live forever?
Freezing human bodies to be re-awoken in the future when we have 'solved death'

Project focus | Miranda July: 'I'm The President, Baby'
Using smart curtains as storytelling devices

Project focus | Jonas Staal: New World Summit – Rojava
Developing parliaments with and for stateless states, autonomist groups, and blacklisted political organisations

Big Glass Microphone digital commission by Stamen Design
Discover a world of fascinating detections through the Big Glass Microphone

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Teachers’ resource: The Future Starts Here