Tomorrow's Sky

British think-tank Tomorrow's Thoughts Today has recently opened the exhibition Under Tomorrows Sky: Speculative Visions of a Future City at the MU artspace in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. TTT front man Liam Young is the "pivot in an extensive network of mad scientists, literary astronauts, speculative gamers and enlightened minds," and in this comprehensive project, he attempts to bring the city of the future to life.

TTT's multiple-faceted practice and visions of the future link up contemporary, and in particular future-oriented thought on nature, urbanism, technology and culture, into inspiring and bizarre stories that tell us as much about the future as about the present day. In all of TTT's work, they try to expose the fashionable cult around "innovation". According to TTT, the guise of innovation often simply shrouds a lack of historical awareness, a pitfall into which we ourselves would not like to fall. Freely and humorously switching between our late-modern past, present-day archaisms and retro-projections of the future, they denounce this shortcoming in a visual way.

The idea is that this model of a city will serve as the décor for stories created by writers, film makers, artists, game developers, philosophers, designers, and of course the public, on urban life in the future.

Previously, TTT has contributed to the Great Babylon Circus at MU, with the intriguing Landscape of unnatural history, and conceive the luminous drones that performed an interactive choreography over the river Dommel during GLOW.

Through 28 October
Under Tomorrows Sky: Speculative visions of a future city
MU Artspace
Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven
The Netherlands