“My drawing represents a futuristic city in which nature does not exist due to large urbanization. Consequently, the buildings present decorations of false nature. Topics such as caring for the environment are frequently communicated on large screens located on the streets and on the television. In addition, technology plays a very important role since there are robots to take care of tasks such as cleaning. Holograms, flying cars and electric trains travel through tunnels in the air to take advantage of space. Finally, it is normal for humans to maintain love relationships with certain robots that are very similar physically and have senses.” Martina Luna Butler

This imagination is part of the pedagogical proposal of the Ecenarro Turrillo Chair, Introducción al Conocimiento Proyectual 1 (ICP 1), Ciclo Básico Común (CBC), Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA. It corresponds to the initial sketch exercise of the first semester of 2022, linked to the Program 2084 Imagined Futures from the South.

Students were invited to dream and develop utopias with the precept of traveling to the future, the year 2084, and propose imaginations/transformations, understanding that design and its project disciplines are tools to improve contemporary and everyday living, with a sustainable commitment.

The teaching team was composed by Graciela Ecenarro, Andrea Santangelo, Silvina de Gennaro, Juan I. Cabello, Florencia de la Quintana, Natalia Naredo, Luciana Quartaruolo, Santiago Ortí, Andrea López y Natalia Ardissone.

Note: given that some of the imaginations have been delivered without titles, from the editing area of 2084 Futures Imagined from the South, we decided to give them a title with the intention of matching them with others that do have, helping to distinguish them.