Opening
Welcome to Over the Future, the exhibition of the future, by the future, for the future.
How is the future portrayed within popular culture?
Through the exhibition, you will be able to get several images of the future and your own answers to the question above. You are more than welcome to unleash your imagination and forecast how the future will be different from the world we live in today.
How It All Began
We, exhibition planners were all fascinated by the Black Mirror series and we fixed our topic as “Future Life”. We connected it with the popular culture, and narrowed it down to promotional videos, movies and television series. After collecting resources, we categorized them into negative and positive aspects. In detail, we categorized our resources to three different sections, City Life, Artificial Intelligence, and social problems. These three sections were created after the themes that were most frequently adopted for the description of future within pop-culture.
Why Popular Culture?
Films, TV series, and commercials about the future are the results of our generation’s imagination. We found out that many of what people have imagined about the future have been achieved, which suggests that recent imaginations portrayed in the popular culture can also be realized. In 1999, Bill Gates wrote a book titled “The Speed of thought” and his predictions about the future became reality now like smartphone or home-monitoring device. <Over the Future> started from the idea that the popular culture functions as a prophet about the future.















