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Davis Square,
2014: Porter Square-style red sculptures used as cleverly-disguised
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Page last updated 3/1/11. March 1, 2011. Thanks everyone! We're shutting down now-- but the website will remain up. See you in the future! --- February 16, 2011. We'll be giving a talk at the Somerville Public Library this coming Wednesday, at 7pm. It'll be at the Main Branch at 79 Highland. Hope you can make it. (Note: The Weekly Dig lists this as the Daily Dig for Wednesday!) --- February 15, 2011. The very excellent Shareable.net, which focuses on community and sharing, asked us to write a story on this project! Take a look at the article, and their website if you get the chance. --- February 12, 2011. The Somerville News and the Somerville Journal both wrote very nice pieces about our art show at the Nave. And the News put their article on the front page! Here's the Journal's article, and here's the New's article. Thanks guys! --- Feburary 8, 2011. The show at the Nave Gallery went down swimmingly. Here's some photos. Take a look! --- January 23, 2011. This just in! Very glad to announce that futurist Seth Itzkan will give a short talk on Feb. 5th, as part of our show at the Nave Gallery-- and that Adam Schutzman will play the theremin afterwards! --- January 15, 2011. We've finalized the details for the art show and the book reading, and we've also printed copies of our book. Book Art show There will be an opening reception from 6-9pm on Saturday. At the reception we'll be hosting Future-aoke! Visitors will be able to step up to the mic, and share their thought on the future. The Nave is located at 155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville. Hope you can make it! Book reading --- January 7, 2011. The future is here again! We've compiled all of the predictions we received between February 2009 and December 2010 into one history of the future. They are here on the website (in the Timeline & findings section, and in the Participants section)-- and as a free PDF in the Book section. We're also working on a print version of the book, which will be available soon. On February 5-6, we'll be having an art show at the Nave Gallery in Somerville. And on February 23, we'll also be giving a book reading and Future Information Session at the Somerville Public Library. Check back for more details. Thanks! --- September 2, 2010. We had a busy summer! We had our Future Information table at a few festivals, and interviewed over 20 people about the future. We updated the timeline again to include these newly discovered facts. Take a look! --- April 12, 2010. We updated the timeline section of our website to include the predictions we received recently. Take a look! --- February 26, 2010. Meghann Ackerman wrote a very nice article about this project for The Somerville Journal. Thanks Meghann! --- February 16, 2010. We finished the first version of the book. This book presents what we've found by talking to Somerville community members about the future. In it, you'll also find official government plans, think tank vision statements, and various ideas and concerns about the future from various other sources. The Timeline
section of the book presents this material as a single timeline.
In the Predictions Archive section, you'll find the actual predictions
that community members made. To download a free PDF of this book, click here. --- January 25, 2010. Welcome to the future! We've just launched the new website, which has all of the predictions we've received so far on it. Take a look! They are organized by year in the "Timeline & findings" section above. The original predictions are also in the "Participants" section. We've extended the deadline for predictions to the end of this year. However, any predictions we receive after Jan. 1, 2010 won't make it into the free PDF book we're working on right now. --- December 7, 2009. The future is (almost) now! The final deadline for predictions about 2010-2100 is coming up soon. Please send along your predictions by December 31, 2009. We look forward to hearing from you! --- August 14, 2009. I'll be giving a powerpoint lecture about some of my findings as part of the SAC's Somerville...in shorts event in Union Square at 8pm. Stop on by! Here's the poster, designed by Jef Czekaj. --- July 22, 2009. Auditi Guha talked about this project, in an article about Artbeat in the Somerville Journal. Here's the article. --- July 18, 2009. I gave a lecture about the future in the Somerville Theatre, and manned a Future Information Table in Davis Square, as part of the Somerville Arts Council's 2009 Artbeat Festival. --- July 13, 2009. Julia Fairclough mentioned this project again, in an article about Artbeat. Here's the article. --- June 9, 2009. Julia Fairclough was nice enough to have me on Somerville Cable Access's "Somerville Art Matters" talk show, to talk about this project. The show was about chronology in art, and also features Nancy Anderson and Dana Mueller. The show aired twice a week through the month. Here's the show. --- May 16, 2009. Julia Fairclough was nice enough to write an article about this project for the Somerville News. Here's the article. --- April 18, 2009. The Somerville News wrote a couple paragraphs about this project in an article about the SAC today. Here's the article. --- March 29, 2009. The Boston Globe mentioned this project in the news in brief column of the City Section. --- March 10, 2009. Doug Holder was nice enought to have me on his Somerville MA talk show, "Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer." Here is a partial transcript of the interview, which includes some information about this project. --- February 27, 2009. "The history of Somerville, 2010-2100" is live!! I hope you'll decide to participate!
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