Future Mirror
The Future mirror allows everyone to turn lo-fi physically constructed prototypes into fantastic images. A free online tool, a workshop format and an approach at crossing boundaries between AI generated images and physical crafts.
A dynamic workshop and digital tool that transforms physical crafty prototypes into speculative images of the future while respecting their physical composition, encouraging playful learning and hands-on experimentation. The Future Mirror is a tool and workshop format that uses playful (machine) learning and hands-on experimentation to spark the imagination and inspire optimistic and positive visions of the future. It invites you to build low-fi physical prototypes of futuristic objects. Once built, these prototypes are transformed by the application into more realistic, yet speculative inventions, each accompanied by a poem that creatively describes and gives life to your innovation. The process is straightforward and engaging:
Join us for a futuristic poetry slam and share your creations with the world using #thefuturemirror.
Read more about the project or download workshop materials. The Future Mirror is developed by Andreas Refsgaard, Nicklas Larsen and Jasmin Cramon, and made possible by Centralbibliotekerne, Innovation Lab, Poul Due Jensens Fond and the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
Try it via desktop or your phone at futuremirror.vercel.app futuremirror.vercel.app
The Future Mirror workshop builds upon the Futures Bazaar by Stuart Candy and Filippo Cuttica. The tool currently uses Stable Diffusion XL, t2i-adapter and gpt-3.5.
