Oona Strathern
Thursday 19 February 2009, 6:30pm
The Weird and Wonderful History of the Future: how we learnt to predict how we would live, love and work.
Modern architecture has a long-standing preoccupation with the future. But the future, too, has a history. This lecture charts the predictably eccentric, ‘weird and wonderful’ territory of vision, desire, prediction and futurology, from Greek oracles to present-day scientific approaches.
Oona Strathern is a journalist and futurist who currently lives in Vienna with her German futurist husband and two sons. She now works as a writer and consultant for Europe’s leading future and trend consultants the Zukunftsinstitut. www.strathern.eu
