#FutureisHere

The future is what will happen after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics.

Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist forever, or temporary, meaning that it will end. The future and the concept of eternity have been major subjects of philosophy, religion, and science, and defining them non-controversially has consistently eluded the greatest of minds.In the Occidental view, which uses a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the projected time line that is anticipated to occur. In special relativity, the future is considered absolute future, or the future light cone.

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be. Religious figures such as prophets and diviners have claimed to see into the future. Organized efforts to predict or forecast the future may have derived from observations by early man of heavenly objects.

Future studies, or futurology, is the science, art and practice of postulating possible futures. Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.

So, What’s future for us? Can we predict it? There’s only one possible future? How has architecture thought about future along history?

During this month we are trying to show you that, although we don’t know how is it going to be, in Alcalá we have a lot of ways to think about future. It could be virtual architecture or real architecture. Related with innovation or not. Maybe restoration or heritage.

We know some of them will become real, and other will remain as drawings, but even so these are our “futures”.

We are prepared to face whatever is coming.

We are ready. Future is here.

Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo

Future? – Florence Dome (Brunneleschi)

Future? – Walking City (Archigram)

Future? – Fun Palace (Cedric Price)

Future? – Tokyo Bay (Kenzo Tange)

Future? – Drop Chair (Arne Jacobsen)

Future? – Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Future? – Virtual Reality

Future? – Google Campus (Bjarke Ingels Group)

Author: Rotating Editor Alcala