Abstract

Long Time, No See? is a crowd-sourced project that asks people to reflect upon what kind of long term future they would each like to promote. It is an evolving experiment in the social practice of ‘everyday futuring’. To participate download the Long Time, No See? IPhone APP that gently guides you during a short walk, encouraging you to experience new places, sensations and thoughts in your locality. At nine stages along that journey you donate ‘field notes’ as images, texts, sounds and ‘themes’, offering a unique opportunity to reveal possible pathways towards more sustaining futures. The APP records the shape of your walk on the ground and draws an island on the ‘map’ shown here, populated by your nine sets of responses. The themes you have chosen then connect your island into an evolving ‘world’ map of connections and possibilities, which you can then explore at your leisure. In these ways, Long Time, No See? doesn’t ask you for lofty visions or ask you to lay out a program of action, but instead asks you to consider what is around you today, steering your eyes, ears and embodied experiences towards new futures that demonstrate your ‘care’ for what comes after you. Please use the contribute tab below to learn how to add your voice! **PARTICIPATE** To contribute 1: Download the APP {[bit.do/ltns]}, iPhone/iPad is supported right now. 2: Register a ‘walker name’. 3: Take a leisurely walk and contribute image, text, sound and themes when asked. 4: Wait while we verify and upload your walk 5: View your contributions via your ‘walker name’ and discover how it relates to others, here at the Cube and at [www.long-time-no-see.org]. NB You can undertake each walk over more than one day if that suits. You may even drive, cycle or move by other modes. DOWNLOAD THE APP: [bit.do/ltns] FIND OUT MORE [www.long-time-no-see.org]