Exhibition: Repairing the future

From Jules Verne, who wrote ‘The Ideal City’ in 1875, based on a dream of Amiens in the year 2000, to Elon Musk, who plans to colonise Mars, people have always dreamt, imagined and even fantasised about new places to live. While science fiction goes beyond reality, foresight is a discipline firmly rooted in reality.

Faced with the upheavals of the future, the first step is to imagine new scenarios. To do this, foresight is a way of thinking about, sketching out and telling the story of the future... or rather of futures. The aim of this discipline is to explore what is possible in order to guide and enlighten political and societal choices, and to prepare the future of territories and their inhabitants over the medium and long term.

Here and in many other urban, suburban and rural areas, this future is being called into question in the face of climate and ecological change. This exhibition is an opportunity to retrace the history of foresight and, above all, to question the contemporary challenges of regional planning.

As a long-term science, foresight enables us to think before we act, to make a better future more likely, one that we want and build together. In foresight, the future is already here. It is being built with everyone, here and now.