Dreaming Up the Future of Patchwork Futures

So it can be also very interesting research instruments for designers and for people to be more immersive, how people live their life in a particular place, in a particular region or in a particular country. And it's also very interesting to have a look into the life of the others, just a user, just as consumer. So it also can be…like in international society of like story collection uh because uh i don't know if you familiar with uh like with jessica walsh design community so jessica walsh is a designer so you probably know her and she has a global community ladies wine and designand they have representatives throughout the world.

So girls are gathering together to discuss design, to have some wine together, to discuss design, to have some workshops, to share some knowledge, some ideas inside. So it's like a safe space forbuilding girls design community and to show the girls power in design. And I think like in the future, because it's also about like communication and empowering communities of people that are interested in sustainable futures and climate changes. It also can be some, you know, meetings of representatives to share some stories or to gather some stuff, to collect some stories. And it's very, very valuable.So I remember that Brothers Grimm, the writers, they were linguists and they were traveling through Germany to collect some words, to create a glossary of German words. So it was like their main topic.some stories and some tales for kids. It was additional because they were interested in the language and in some versions of words to go out to collect the very first German glossary, as I remember.

But the power of storytelling and the power of stories is more valuable just than the knowledge because knowledge can be updated.And stories, they're more valuable in the time frame. And I think like, I also was thinking about Audre Lorde. So we discussed her a lot. And she was showing her perspective of seeing things.And it's also very valuable for us to understand what was happening in a particular time frame, in a particular year, what were the concerns of society from different locations. And so I think it's a big...potential of like of a global communication of gathering people from around the world. It's also about climate justice, climate justice for all regions and share stories from all regions.So I think it's a very interesting concept, very powerful, because it's about feelings and knowledge. And I love the idea of patchwork. It's also about plurality for me.So I think it's very great and I hope that my additional thoughts how this portal could go into a real world, into some personal meetings of like-minded people, into global communication and like research platform, it's really great.

So it can be really interesting.if you can have, you know, that a capsule of time. It's like, I think, like in the Western society, people, like, create some messages for the future generations about, like, some ideas or, like, things that were connected with the past time. And I think, like, if you can put this website on, like,imagining never-ending system which can work after the, I don't know, if we don't have electricity, it will have some power to maintain this website. So it can be like an archive for the future generation, what was crucial for us as human beings now in 2025. And in 100 years after that, it can be like a really interesting platform forfor people of our future generations to look through this like a time frame when we were existing currently, why we are discussing this thing, how it works for us. Because after years and decades in the future, people will not understand the context of living of our current world.And it will help them to understand our climate concerns from the stage when we are currently now. So I think like if it's like impossible, like future perspective, it can be like never ending websites, like maintaining through centuries, like on some, I don't know, servers to be like a reminder of our climate concerns and stories.