Dear friends,
We hope you are all doing very well these days leading up to the new year!
Almost without realizing it, we’ve reached the sixth consecutive year of 2084 Imagined Futures from the South! We believe this is a true achievement that, since those tense pandemic times, we’ve accomplished together.
So, with our usual joy, we share with you this year’s progress, in which we continue expanding spaces for meeting, creating new collaborations, and exploring ways to collectively imagine and discuss possible futures from our region.
In challenging times globally, these initiatives reaffirm the importance of collective imagination and discussion of fair and inclusive futures. We continue to believe in the enormous potential of activating the imagination of futures! And, as we say every year at this time: Our program’s commitment continues to grow!
Below, is a SUMMARY of the ACTIVITIES of 2025, carried out thanks to the commitment, enthusiasm, initiative, and participation of many of you.
- ACTIVITIES THAT EVOLVE AND EXPAND:
The project Planetary Futures for the Care of Life, which we mentioned in last year’s newsletter, was successfully executed. It was led by our colleague Eliana Martínez Herrera and coordinated by Kamila Giraldo Quintero with the collaboration of Juan David Castro Quintero. It has the support of the University Bank of Extension Programs and Projects (BUPPE) Climate Action (University of Antioquia, Medellín) within an agreement between the National School of Public Health and The New School. This project was co-created by the Museum of Life of the Faculty of Medicine, the Climate Change Adaptation Plan from Environmental Health for Antioquia, the Scouts Association of Colombia (Antioquia Region), and OLA. Collectively designed activation strategies, between August and November 2025, involved different leadership levels and Scout groups (Cubs, packs, families, troops, etc.), deploying great creativity and commitment from the entire community. Currently, an exhibition of material results and process records is being prepared, which will take place in three rooms of the Museum of Life, La Naviera building, Medellín. Likewise, digital versions of the future imagination processes will be published in our Museum of Futures. Given the success and results of the activities, the commissioners and Scout leaders who participated in the design and implementation of this project have proposed taking this project to other regions of the country.
We continued with Academic Credit Internships at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA). This year we increased the number of interns to five students from FADU UBA, coming from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina. They creatively joined the program’s activities through the alliance with the Advanced Research Project: Digital Library of Latin American Futures, directed by our ally Adriana Guevara. This project, as well as the internship, is supervised by Margarita Gutman and coordinated by Martín Gromez, media coordinator of 2084. For 15 weeks, the interns immersed themselves in the 2084 project, attended theoretical support classes, participated in the International Seminar-Workshop UN CUYO, accessed specialized bibliographies, and prepared analytical papers on readings. They also uploaded imaginations to the Museum of Futures, created their own imaginations, and developed five guided tours that are now available in our Museum of Futures.
This year our website www.2084imaginedfutures.org was visited from 123 countries, had more than 11,000 new users, and the average engagement time was 1 minute!
The Museum of Futures grows: Today we have 732 published 2084 imaginations and more than 250 in the process of being included. They are the result of the efforts of colleagues and friends in various educational, cultural, and social institutions who have found the 2084 program to be a trigger and stimulus for their activities. Come and visit the 2084 Collection!
As anticipated, Guided Tours are now available! You can enjoy ten tours created by colleagues and interns from 2024 and 2025 (Andrea Giacobone, Juan Manuel González Scobie, Montserrat Romero Aversa, Camila Molina, Paula Plantey, Luz Eberle, Laura Brito Carett, Guadalupe Alonso, Dilan Cardozo Rodriguez, and Katherin López Vega).
- NEW ACTIVITIES
We collaborated in the International Seminar-Workshop UNCUYO: “Imagining Alternative Futures from the Global South. Contributions from Latin American Social Sciences for Other Possible Futures” (August-November 2025). It was organized by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of Cuyo, with contributions from prominent national and international institutions. The goal was to stimulate critical reflection and collective discussion on possible futures, based on a transformative perspective from historical and social viewpoints of the Global South. In particular, the workshop was framed within our program 2084 Imagined Futures from the South; and a selection of its results will soon be uploaded to the Museum of Futures.
We also collaborated with the International Zonas de Compensação 11 ZONAS11, linked to São Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil), focusing on the theme Vectors of Immersion and Shortcuts to Imaginary Worlds from the perspective of contemporary art. In October 2025, Juan Manuel Gonzalez Scobie, Amanda Jorri, and Martín Gromez presented our 2084 program and interacted with organizers and the online audience. They particularly highlighted how imagining diverse and everyday futures and discussing them collectively and inclusively is a political act aimed at democratizing our ways of thinking about tomorrow.
We reflected a lot: We worked intensively to understand what is being done regarding the imagination and discussion of futures, as well as analyzing the implementation of future imagination exercises. We share two new documents prepared by Juan Manuel Gonzalez Scobie: Guidelines for Futures Imagination Exercises and Work Strategies.
We were invited to other prominent events:
We were invited to other prominent events:
- Buenos Aires. TEDX Río de la Plata, November 9, 2025 (in person). We presented our 2084 program at the Buenos Aires Convention Center (CEC) during the 15th anniversary of TEDx Río de la Plata, dedicated to the theme of Time. Margarita Gutman was invited to the opening segment “The Science of Time” curated by Diego Golombek. She presented three programs: Buenos Aires 1910: Memory of the Future; Buenos Aires 2050; and 2084: Imagined Futures from the South. She concluded by inviting everyone to imagine the future to transform the present. Four other speakers participated in the segment: Gabriel Mindlin, Teo López Puccio, Ariel Zylberberg, and Nadia Carolina. There were more than 1,700 attendees in the huge conference space; it was also streamed online, the video is available here.
- FADU UBA, June 4, 2025 (in person). Martín Gromez presented the 2084 program in the TRANSVISUAL course at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, invited by professors Karina Basile and Elizabeth Vergara, before a group of about 40 undergraduate students.
- FADU UBA, November 19, 2025 (online). In the Urban Project Specialization Course (CEPU), directed by architect Berardo Dujovne, Margarita Gutman interacted with students and teachers about numerous imaginations from the Museum of Futures, after presenting in detail the orientation and activities of our 2084 program.
- LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026
We are exploring possible new partnerships and new ways to activate the imagination of futures with the following organizations:
Secretariat of Social Integration of Bogotá, which formulates and designs population policies, with special emphasis on vulnerable populations. They expressed interest in carrying out 2084-type exercises in neighborhoods within the framework of the existing Community Care Networks Program, currently active in the Subdirectorate for Older Adults.
Arte Acción Colombia, a non-governmental organization focused on developing artistic, cultural, and educational practices aimed at building an active and participatory cultural democracy. They have already incorporated an initial future imagination workshop with a group of children in the first semester of 2025, and the idea is to integrate this perspective more systematically into activities in 2026.
Contradatos, an initiative by Bogotá-based designers who, through the design and construction of devices of different kinds and the use of data and questions, seek to promote public reflections and dialogues around various topics. They expressed their intention to design and carry out joint exercises in Bogotá during 2026.
Secretariat of Culture, Recreation, and Sports of Bogotá: In November 2024, Juan Manuel González, representing 2084, participated in the launch workshop of this institution’s Futures School. We have received interest from the Futures School in coordinating with the Secretariat of Social Integration to develop 2084-type actions and exercises through joint efforts in 2026
4. 2084 OLA TEAM
This year we were unable to continue the valuable collaboration with our dear colleague, architect Andrea Giacobone, to whom we extend heartfelt thanks for her significant contributions. Her dedicated work in the Museum of Futures, her ideas, approaches, and documentary contributions have greatly enriched and elevated the program and the OLA.
And finally:
We remind you that the Future Columns and Guided Tours sections are always open to receive contributions from our entire community of allies and friends. Don’t forget to visit, many new imaginations are published every day. The invitation remains open to all of you!
Finally, we invite all of you, dear allies, friends, and activators to continue proposing dialogues, projects, and/or activities with your communities, so we can keep our conversations about imagining diverse futures and the possibilities they open—toward a collective construction of desirable, inclusive, and possible futures.
With affection and gratitude,
A big hug to each and every one of you, and a super Happy 2026!
Marga, Michael, Juan Manuel, Martín, Rebecca, Mafe and Amanda.
