What if our visions of the future would decompose before the future itself arrives? Would that open your mind for really different future scenarios? In the second session of our series Future Proof, we explored the concept of alternative futures: the ones that are not meant to come true per se, but are designed to challenge our thinking. 

In collaboration with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, Loes Damhof and Elles Kazemier, members of the UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, we organised this experiential workshop on reframing, using the ‘Biodegradable Time Capsule’: a tool that doesn’t pretend to capture the times we are in, but collects our futures visions instead.