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The Future Starts Here
100 projects shaping the world of tomorrow
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.
This exhibition is now closed at V&A South Kensington
This show is stimulating, inspiring, exciting and challenging
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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.
Exhibition highlights
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Anthropocene spike, a golden spike driven into a rockface to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene geological era. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Superflex, Aura-powered bodysuits, Yves Behar. Courtesy of Superflex -
Aerocene Explorer, launch at White Sands Natural Park, 2015, Tomás Saraceno. Courtesy the artist; Pinksummer contemporary art, Genoa; Tanya Bonakdar, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, Esther Schipper, Berlin. © Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2015 -
Technology in Bed, Hanif Shoaei, 2014. Courtesy of Hanif Shoaei -
Body Code Animation, Drew Berry, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. © E.O.Wilson Biodiversity Foundation -
Protei, autonomous sailing ship that cleans up oil spills, Scoutbots LTD, Cesar Jung-Harada, 2014 -
Radical Love, DNA portrait of Chelsea Manning, Heather Dewey Hagborg, 2015. Courtesy of Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Fridman Gallery, New York City -
betamodel, Bento Labs. © Bento Bioworks -
Shooting Stars project, Ale and Co Ltd, 2016. © ALE Co. Ltd -
Luchtsingel, pedestrian bridge crowdfunded by citizens, ZUS, 2011 – 2015, Rotterdam. Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode. © ZUS -
Living Network, dummy antenna around fake tree, Jalila Essaidi. © BioArt Laboratories -
Masdar City, the world’s first carbon-neutral, zero-waste city, Foster + Partners. Photography by Eteienne Malapert, 2006. © Etienne Malapert, The city of Possibilities, Ecal
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Features
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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
Teachers’ resource: The Future Starts Here
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The Future Starts Here
Background image: The Future Starts Here, 2018. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London