TIME’S UP
Time’s Up is a Linz, Austria-based laboratory that constructs experiential models of possible futures to explore contemporary and emerging sociopolitical issues.
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Their practice centers on creating interactive situations that invite audiences to engage in playful, experience-driven exploration, both individually and collectively. Drawing on tools from the arts and design, sociology, mathematics, cultural studies, science, and technology, Time’s Up investigates how we might imagine and inhabit alternative futures. Since 1996, they have exhibited and collaborated with partners across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Australia.
Instead of Solutions: Tools for Navigating Uncertain Seas
LECTURE + PANEL
The talk introduces material counter-poetics as a critical framework for design practice. It centres materiality as a site that bears both the afterlives of extractive capitalism and the conditions that can support collective flourishing.
Through a series of projects that sit with and within damaged ecologies, To Re-enchant Contested Grounds explores practices that engage with the toxic, the residual, and the submerged not just as conditions to be analysed, but as grounds from which to collectively mobilise and rehearse other worldings.
By fostering fabulations rooted in situated material knowledges, design’s role is rethought as an act of re-enchantment—a fiction committed to imagining and sustaining possible futures and enabling practices that support intersectional, intergenerational justice from within the realities of the now.