#thefutures

Did you know?

Research, animation / award competition (2016)

together with Adrijan Karavdic.

“Did you know?” takes you on a tour around the world and presents three origin stories of currencies from the future. Set in a post-apocalyptic scenario  (neither dystopian, nor utopian), the tales explore new possible ways of understanding money in societies starting from scratch.

Inspired with experiments in currencies from the depression era, historical ethnographic accounts on local economies in remote areas, current developments in alternative economies as well as the possibilities of virtual currencies, the short documentary questions assumptions and certainties.

These are screenshots are from the video that was awarded the second prize in 2016, Future of Money Award. Topic: Origins of Money.

Full video: https://vimeo.com/164972688 - “Arguably there has been no greater time of financial uncertainty than today and no greater need for fresh ideas and imaginative insights which help inform, suggest and question our current technological, social and cultural direction. Whatever the true origin of money is, all monetary origin stories, true or false, inform our understanding of currency.

The task of the Future of Money Award 2016 competition was to create a new origin story surrounding a monetary artefact or theory. We are looking for monetary origin stories that challenge the way we think about the nature of money. Therefore, all current or past monetary artefacts can be used as a starting point. For example, gold and silver, coins, paper notes, credit cards, binary code, NFC (Near Field Communication), Chip and Pin, Bitcoin, big stone blocks and everything in between.”