Miguel Alcubierre, Vivette García Deister, Raph Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Geert Lovink, Michael J. Montoya, Ryuta Nakajima, Luis Ortiz-Catedral, Ned Rossiter, Nina Valkanova

Since antiquity humankind has tried to domesticate uncertainty by embodying it in a topos or extrapolating it into known systems of belief.

Every object, system or belief, even dreams and visions, speaks volumes of the context in which was created, the people and the ideology that crafted it, and more important, its function and symbolism through time. Modelab seeks to draw a cartography of future knowledge: a sort of prospective archaeology.

Departing from their own disciplines and fields of study, we asked diverse specialists to imagine what could be useful and desirable (or abhorrent and thus avoidable) for their field of knowledge.

Modelab asks why that imagined particular idea would be useful, and how? How its performance will be measured? Who will use it and for what purpose? To what degree current laws or cultural norms and beliefs should be breached to permit its existence? How will we acknowledge its effectiveness?

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