Shipments from the Future: Exercises in Latin American Speculative Design.

MAZ presents Shipments from the Future. Exercises in Latin American Speculative Design, a group exhibition curated by Karla Paniagua and Paolo Cardini.

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous for those who benefit from the way things are, because it has the power to show that things are neither permanent, nor universal, nor necessary." —Ursula K. Le Guin

According to James Dator, the future cannot be predicted because it doesn't exist, but the fact that we can't know what will happen opens up a spectrum of possibilities that require our maximum capacity for agency.

Faced with this, design fiction presents itself as a highly useful technique for thinking about alternative futures. The combination of design and science fiction allows us not only to imagine future scenarios but also to provoke critical reflections on the present.

This exhibition seeks to demonstrate how design fiction can support students and citizens in the challenging effort to question what we consider an inevitable destiny, confronting our beliefs about the official future and opening fissures in the apparent solidity of the present.

Sent from a possible (but perhaps not desirable) future, these speculative objects warn us about the consequences of our decisions and invite us to treat the future as something fragile and precious, to be managed with care and built in a participatory manner.

The exhibition consists of a selection of objects developed at the Global Futures Lab Mexico observatory at CENTRO University, founded by Paolo Cardini (2017-2025); the Soundscapes of the Future laboratory founded by Leonardo Santiago (2019-2025); as well as the work of Mexican creators Shiro Beta, José De la O, Anni Garza Lau, Amor Muñoz; Diego Trujillo, and Israel Viadest. We invite you to explore each of these submissions from the future, some hopeful, others unsettling. All of them share the common message of recovering the future as a space for situated narratives, not as a distant, universal abstraction.

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Participants: Bruno Alcántara, Alfredo Amaya, Camila Anaya, Hussein Arellano, Mercedes Baltazar, Jaqueline Barreda, Shiro Beta, Matilde Breña, Carlos Carmona, Jorge Cejudo, Paulina Corral, Elena Cruz, José De la O, Andrea De la Peña, Gary Dueñas, Fernanda Enríquez, Alejandra Enzáztiga, María Renée Estrada, Edgar Flores, Alexa Garduño, Diana Georgina García-Rojas, Diana García, Francisco Raúl García, Anni Garza Lau, Raúl Gonzalez, Iván Hernández, Karla Guadarrama, Camila Guerrero, Ivonne Lonna, Adair López, Arturo López, Patricia López, Bertha Martínez, Daniel Martínez, Vicente Martínez, Amor Muñoz, Francisco Javier Mesa, Analy Miranda, Paola Morales, Karla Denisse Muñoz, María José Olvera, Juliana Ordóñez, Miguel Ortíz, María Fernanda Otálora, Cecilia Palacios, Andrea Ponce, Eduardo Peñafiel, Sebastián Quiroga, Vera Rábago, Eugenio Ricárdez, Alejandra Rosillo, Frida Ruiz, Miriam Ruiz, Lizbeth Saavedra, Alan Sáenz, Leonardo Santiago, Gabriela Salinas, Lourdes Serrano, Natalia Silva, Emilio Sosa, Diego Trujillo, Amalia Vásquez, Beatriz Vega, Karina Vega, Israel Viadest, Martha Vilchis, Johann Weigend, Elena Yepes, Emanuel Zámano, Lizette Zavala, Diana Zendejas, Patricio Zepeda, Elizabeth Zuñiga, Encuadernación Aatzin, Taller Vilab.