Many Lives Calendar is a proposal for an alternative consultation device for AI predictions, that wants to embody illegibility, multiplicity and an open future. It consists of a digital screen transforming real-life weather data from Milano into ambiguous words, superimposed by an automated curtain, opening and closing at random times during the day, based on confidence in the prediction. By doing so, users are forced to reclaim responsibility over the predictions they receive, and to actively engage with interpretation to get an answer to their questions. AI and algorithmic systems attempt to generate answers about the future, based on data gathered in the past, but the future is intrinsically unpredictable, therefore any prediction will be an uncertain one.
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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.