Strelka Mag

14.08.2020, The Revenge of the Real

138,462 Carbon Pyramids

Karen Pinkus and Hans Baumann on the climate crisis, Keynesian “pyramid scheme,” and “viable planetarity.”

26.04.2019, Art & Design

Metropia 2042: Artists envision urban future in major 3D challenge

What will cities and urban life look like decades from now? Speculating about new and groundbreaking technology, artists from around the world tried to envision the future in a major 3D challenge.

09.04.2019, Speculative Futures

Post-human narratives from the heart of the Urals

A series of experimental short films produced by Strelka researchers after a field trip to the Urals speculates about a new age where the most strategic actors in the world are non-human.

11.07.2018, Speculative Futures

AI taking control of food chain

As automation is gradually transforming agriculture, what would happen if artificial intelligence learned to farm and cook?

27.07.2017, Art & Design

The New Normal: Urbanism of the future as visualized by Strelka graduates

Digital afterlife, Arctic currency, society ruled by AI: Seven projects presented at the New Normal showcase

01.06.2017, Art & Design

What is speculative architecture? FAQ by Liam Young

A theorist of architecture and storytelling explains the topic in seven points.

20.04.2017, Art & Design

No man’s land: The Arctic as seen by a lidar scanner

Liam Young and students of The New Normal program took a trip to Murmansk Oblast to speculate on the fate of Russia’s Far North against the backdrop of melting icecaps and the advance of global warming

21.12.2016, Art & Design

Post-truth: The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed

Algorithms, discourses and “patternocracy” – everything you were never told about “post-truth”

11.07.2016, People

Laura Fisher: “Land is a site for speculative thought”

Sydney writer Laura Fisher talks about deeper meanings of land art