“I imagine 2 realities in the same world, the separation of them is by levels of a video game; social classes are divided based on the level you are at. More than 50 is good, less than that is bad. People are natural resources since pollution saturated the planet. Poor people are half vegetables and without them there would be no way to live while the rich are electronic devices in themselves. People believe that they can move up a level but in reality it is a lie since without them. plant people could not continue standing. The homes in the virtual world are technological and architectural. In the plant it is all meadows and wildlife. Some are made up of screens, others of land and vegetation. The ways of relating of plant people are those of today, while in the virtual world there cannot be physical contact due to contamination. Everything is through telepathy; people send brain messages to each other. Therefore, to have contact there are no bodies but figures. The relationship with animals in the plant world is good while in the other world there are only helpful robots.” Catalina Sosa Buffarini

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.