Future Fair

Creative direction and curation for Next Nature Museum, Eindhoven (NL). This exhibition (400m2) translates present-day research into future scenarios. Rather than predicting the future, these “attractions” aim to spark dialogue by visualizing scenarios that prompt reflections on the kind of futures we actually want.

Future nostalgia

Future Fair is part of the inaugural exhibition RetroFuture. Fueled by nostalagia and inspired by current scientific affairs, this exhibition brings together 10 artists to reinterpret research as interactive installations that capture the spirit of funfair attractions. Highlights include a carousel ride to a distant future, a shooting gallery featuring pig-organ xenotransplants, a food corner serving microbial snacks, a photobooth that appropriates your likeness, and a cat café run by an AI masquerading as a cute kitten. This format invites audiences of all ages to engage with (bio)technological advancements in an engaging, playful way. 

Big Future

The exhibition’s centerpiece offers a carousel ride into the far future—not just decades or centuries, but billions of years ahead. Enter Big Future, an interdisciplinary narrative that looks at the future of the universe from the present day to the moment the sun runs out. Where Big History asks “how did we get here?” Big Future asks “where would we be going?” Blending science, philosophy, and imagination, this VR experience contains a hydraulic system that lifts visitors into the air, transporting them through time and space.

Scientist-in-residence

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Design-Driven Construction for Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium. She is a pioneer of “living architecture” an ecological, technological, and life-centered approach to design that responds to a world in flux. Her work explores how buildings can participate in ecosystems, which comes to life in the House of Mirrors, where visitors share space with living mycelium networks, blurring the line between the biological and the built.

Organ hunt

Remember Nintendo’s Duck Hunt? This Organ Hunt, a light gun shooting game that chronicles the controversial science of xenotransplantion—cross-species organ transplants. The game imagines a future in which engineering and transplanting animal organs into human recipients has become widely accessible. It asks: If you could engineer a pig heart, would you accept it?

Thank you

  • • Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
    • Provincie Noord-Brabant
    • Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven
    • Brainport Eindhoven
    • Fonds21
    • BPD Cultuurfonds
    • Het Cultuurfonds
    • Mondriaan Fonds

  • Emma van der Leest, Entangled Others, Floris Kaayk & Koert van Mensvoort, Joeri Woudstra, Mark IJzerman, Maze de Boer, Pinar Yoldas, Rachel Armstrong, Rob Schröder, Roos Groothuizen, Tamiko Thiel, Tria Amalia Ningsih.