A Cultural Innovation Hub for Worlds We Want
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
How can we build a future we cannot imagine?
A sanctuary for protopian storytelling
Where academia, culture, government and enterprise gather to dream, and build new civic infrastructure through AI, immersive technology and community-sourced data.
We are living through an imagination crisis
Only 8% of cultural stories are set in the future. By adulthood, 98% of our creative capacity is gone. 78% of Americans don't believe their children will be better off.
2200
Our trajectory
8%
Future stories
78%
Pessimism index
98%
Creativity lost
A living lab in three pillars
A journey through three stages: what is, what if, and what could be…
Activations
Experiential futures environments built from real intergenerational visions — VR, AR, projection mapping, 360° rooms.
Education
Futures literacy workshops and the proprietary AI x imagination curriculum, K–12 through university and beyond.
Enterprise
Regenerative company cohorts, prototyping lab and a retail surface for artifacts from imagined futures.
D.R.E.A.M.
One framework for the cultural infrastructure of the futures we want.
D-DEEP NATURE WISDOM
R-RESTORATIVE TECHNOLOGY
E-EMBODIED BELONGING
A-ARCHITECTS OF AWE
M-MUTUAL ABUNDANCE
Why 2200?
Because that is sEvEn gEnErations from now — honoring the indigenous principle of long-term responsibility to those not yet born.
Read our AI ethics framework.
Created Through Collaboration
About Our Partner Conscious Futures
Conscious Futures is an independent collaborative studio led by Kate Barranco. Born from years of work at the intersections of imagination, systems change, and care, Conscious Futures exists to design pathways toward futures that are both more protopian, creative and grounded in possibility .
Digital Resources
Explore the Sandbox
We're building an open learning hub where AI + imagination tools, practices, and resources are shared globally—accessible to all who seek them, not gatekept.
Bring the Sandbox to Your Community
Universities, museums, civic agencies, foundations and innovation teams — we co-design activations, exhibitions and curricula tuned to your community's questions about the future. Let's start a conversation.