THE FUTURE IS ARRIVING
FASTER THAN WE CAN
MAKE SENSE OF IT.

Timescaping is where people make sense of it together. During a live session, participants step 100 years forward together, not to predict anything, but to think beyond what is already familiar.

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THE MOMENT WE'RE IN

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU IMAGINED THE FUTURE WITHOUT IT COLLAPSING INTO DOOM OR UTOPIA?

The systems we live inside are transforming at a pace that outstrips our collective ability to process what is happening, let alone imagine what comes next.

This creates a specific kind of disorientation. Not lack of information. Not lack of intelligence. A lag. Between how fast things move and how slowly humans integrate change emotionally, ethically, imaginatively.

We reach for familiar responses. We extrapolate the present. We collapse complexity into doom or inevitability. Not because we are passive. Because we don't feel permission to explore another way.

THE PRACTICE

100 YEARS
FORWARD.
TOGETHER.

Participants step 100 years into the future together. Using scenario cards built around specific themes, from android rights to climate restoration to the meaning of work, participants engage in conversations with each other and learn how to build nuanced speculative scenarios.

The 100-year distance is a device. Far enough that nobody has the right answer. Far enough that expertise stops being a shield. Far enough that the stories we tell ourselves about what is inevitable start to loosen.

Participants using Timescape scenario cards during a session in the Netherlands

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE IMAGINE TOGETHER

TWO PEOPLE READ THE
SAME TIMESCAPE CARD.
THEY DO NOT REACT TO
IT THE SAME WAY.

What we imagine reveals who we are now. What we fear. What we value. What we cannot yet conceive. Most people, asked to picture the future, land on doom or utopia. Timescaping opens the space in between.

People discover assumptions they didn't know they were making. They find unexpected common ground with someone who sees it completely differently. They leave looking at the present differently.

SOME OF THE THEMES EXPLORED:

AMORTALITY ANDROID RIGHTS CONSCIOUSNESS UPLOAD CHALLENGING AI INEVITABILITY NEW SOCIAL CONTRACTS CLIMATE RESTORATION ROBOT PETS

And many others, across technology, society, relationships, and what it means to be human.

Close-up of Timescape scenario cards spread on a table during a session

"Even two weeks later, I still find myself reflecting on the conversations we had. They really stayed with me."
- Eva Beunk, Composer and Educator

"It helped us zoom out from the daily grind and shift into long-term thinking. A perfect primer for the meaningful work that followed."
- Siemen Brinksma, Co-founder, Biosphere Solar

THE PERSON IN THE ROOM

CRISTIAN
BOSCHERI

In the room, he knows how to read a group, hold it, and take it somewhere it wouldn't go on its own.

He is a former engineer and theater maker who has spent twenty years working across very different worlds. He also founded and ran an organization for nearly a decade.

Based in Rotterdam · Sessions across the Netherlands · Available abroad on request

Trusted by

TinQwise Biosphere Solar DAIEC University of Twente Mestieri Lombardia CultureHub Ockham ArtEconomy

THE CAPACITY TO IMAGINE
THE FUTURE IS A SKILL.
IT CAN BE TRAINED.

WHO THIS IS FOR

THIS IS FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS COLLECTIVE IMAGINATION MATTERS.

→Cultural spaces and arts organisations

→Public engagement programs

→Universities and research institutes

→Futures events and conferences

→Social innovation and civic programs

Timescaping session with community participants at a public event

Timescaping is also available for corporate teams and strategy sessions.

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THE FUTURE IS ARRIVING FASTER THAN WE CAN MAKE SENSE OF IT.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU IMAGINED THE FUTURE WITHOUT IT COLLAPSING INTO DOOM OR UTOPIA?

100 YEARS FORWARD. TOGETHER.

TWO PEOPLE READ THE SAME TIMESCAPE CARD. THEY DO NOT REACT TO IT THE SAME WAY.

CRISTIAN BOSCHERI

THE CAPACITY TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE IS A SKILL. IT CAN BE TRAINED.