The European Collaboratorium on Anticipatory Dynamics
Research and design on emergent processes through which Anticipation is enacted
critical anticipation sPACE
Welcome to the Critical Anticipation Space (CAS), a vibrant flow where avant-garde artistry meets scholarly audacity, all in the spirit of playful subversion. At the heart of CAS is the Salón de Anticipación, a gathering ground to frolic within the burgeoning realm of Critical Anticipation Studies. Join our Catastrophic Anticipation Supper Club aiming to cook up mind fucks that are as intellectually unsettling as they are gastronomically challenging. Not to be outdone, the Counter Anticipation Unit (CAU) employs guerrilla-style performances to cheekily unmask and challenge the hegemonic narratives scripting our futures. Anchoring this whirlwind of activity, our nifty nerdy anti-bloggers prevail as the analytical nucleus, meticulously dissecting the evolving field of anticipation and offering reflective insights and research on all collaboratorium endeavors.
KITCHEN OF FABULOUS FUTURES
Welcome to the Kitchen of Fabulous Futures where we cook with time, talk in taste, and serve up the possible with a wink. There is no recipe book. This is flavour-as-futures-thinking, food as aesthetic sabotage, and the stove as the oracle. Here, we:
🥄 Simmer speculative soups
🍠 Mash memory with imagination
🌶️ Spice the present with what-could-be
💋 Lick the edge of expectation
We believe Futures are fermented, not forecasted. Everyone brings an ingredient. Taste is collective sensing. Mess is essential. No dish is ever truly finished.
We welcome the fabulous, the feral, the foraged. We gather around stoves, fields, sidewalks, screens. We feed the future one divine bite at a time. Pull up a chair. Bring your contradictions. And something to stir with. This isn’t a kitchen you leave the same as you were.
CONFLUENCE.BLUE
ANTICIPATING THE SYMBIOCENE THROUGH SENSONOMY
In Confluence Blue, we explore the intersection of sensory experience and anticipatory dynamics, creating a transdisciplinary flow where our senses become instruments for perceiving, designing, and enacting possible futures within the Symbiocene—a term coined by Glenn Albrecht describing an epoch of deep ecological reciprocity.
Through multisensory experimentation, we engage with the future as an anticipatory practice, shaping new ways of knowing and feeling through touch, scent, taste, sight, sound, and shared experience. Emotion research and design, alongside media, culture, and speculative storytelling, play central roles in crafting immersive, emergent experiences that reimagine our entanglements with ecosystems, organisms, planets, and communities.
PILOT PROJECTS
COOK SOMETHING UP WITH US (-:
We are currently developing five complementary KOFF (Kitchen of Fabulous Futures) ideas, each with a clear identity and poetic pull:
Gastro-Ecological Cycle (San Sebastián, Spain) – Gastronomic futures lab Where gastronomic mastery becomes a futuring method.
Table of Integrity (Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, England) – Ritual, sensing, and regenerative ethics Can we sense the future we want to live in?
Cook Your Future (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) – Community growing and eco-relationality The future grows in our gardens and gathers at our tables.
Haute Futurine (Paris, France) – Fine dining and speculative luxury futures What does the exquisite taste like in the age of collapse and renewal?
Catastrophic Anticipation Supper Club (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Neighbourhood meals facing shared fears and fantasies. Facing the unthinkable, one dish at a time.
