Tomorrow’s Myths - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Soik Jung, Kyong Park

Contributors Hyewon Lee, Alice Bucknell, Yunjeong Han, Eman Abdelhadi, M. E. O’Brien, Serang Chung, Federico Campagna

Myths are relatively simple stories that, through the use of metaphor and other narrative devices, cut to the core of what it means to be human. By providing wider narratives that everyone can relate to, myths teach us about ourselves, about each other. Myths allow us to imagine another time, another way of being and living, and create bridges from the here and now to the there and then.

Tomorrow’s Myths is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and “2086: Together How?,” the Korean Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia curated by Soik Jung and Kyong Park.

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7 essays

The Perfection of Mythology

Federico Campagna

Thus, Ibn Tufail claimed, all true philosophers are born: by looking around and inside themselves, and then translating their observations into practical abstractions that can guide their lives.

A Story of Eight Cities

Serang Chung

In 2086, without precedent, a great, discretionary power was granted to the organization for the Decarbonization Initiative. People from all walks of life united by a shared vision temporarily put aside their main professions and sat down at the roundtable.

Sharaner Maash, or a haunting from the time before

Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien

I’m on Fire Island, and I met a ghost. I had to tell you, and apparently the only way to do so is a handwritten letter! They cut off our phones and augs. This is such a bizarre format, but here we are.

Ecological Communities

Yunjeong Han

If there is any civilization remaining on earth in the year 2086, it will be an ecological civilization. An anti-ecological industrial civilization that exceeds the earth’s capacity will likely still exist on a much smaller scale than today, but we will no longer call it “civilization.” People in regions that fail to adapt to the rapidly changing conditions on earth or fail to build an ecological civilization will live lives like scenes from disaster movies, constantly pressed for survival.

Synthetic Loopholes

Alice Bucknell

The body sought out what it could no longer sense, but the brain couldn’t stomach that absence. It was as if the reduction of the senses also shut down the sense of self, negating one’s existence in the world.

The Declaration of Innocence

Hyewon Lee

There is an abundance of data, predictions, and signs that the climate crisis is on the verge of catastrophe. However, I do not want to imagine a future without humans. Even in the very worst case, I don’t want to give up hope that a small number of people, living close to the land in a small corner of the earth, will survive.

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Soik Jung, Kyong Park, and e-flux Architecture

Tomorrow’s Myths is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and “2086: Together How?,” the Korean Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia curated by Soik Jung and Kyong Park.

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Architecture, Futures, Futurism, Fiction, Science Fiction, Mythology

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Soik Jung, Kyong Park, and e-flux Architecture Editorial
Hyewon Lee The Declaration of Innocence
Alice Bucknell Synthetic Loopholes
Yunjeong Han Ecological Communities
Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien Sharaner Maash, or a haunting from the time before
Serang Chung A Story of Eight Cities
Federico Campagna The Perfection of Mythology

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