PRIMER
Where the Speculative Futures community came together to practice, debate, and imagine.
PRIMER was not a conference about the future.
It was a conference about how we make the future —
through design, speculation, and the kind of thinking that refuses to accept
the world as it is.
Eight editions across North America and Europe.
Hundreds of practitioners, educators, and provocateurs in one room.
One question that never got old: What’s the work for?
San Francisco
Grey Area · Mission District · “Emerging Pathways”
San Francisco
Near Future Lab · Chapters across LA, Austin, NY, Berlin, London
Helsinki
2018 · First European edition
New York
Design, technology, cultural studies · 29 speakers
Madrid
2019 · Second European edition
Atlanta — Virtual
Activating Futures · Six themed days · Global reach
San Francisco — Virtual
Expanded international network · 35 speakers
Guadalajara — Virtual
Final edition · The practice continues
The people who shaped PRIMER — eight editions, two continents.
PRIMER
will return
The practice continues. The conference will too.
