What should the future look like?

From 23 March until 4 April you can experience not only spring but the student exhibition 'Preferred Futures 2092' in the Geographical Garden's Greenhouse in Kolding, as 1st year MA students from Design School Kolding present artifacts from their course 'Preferred Futures'.

In the 1950s gardener, plant expert and founder of Kolding Geographical Garden Aksel Olsen made speculative fabulations around how Kolding would present itself in 2020 as a green city.

For the exhibition Design School Kolding students have taken on this method of future speculation and developed a number of future artifacts anno 2092 that bring Aksel Olsen’s green heritage into both the present and the future.

The function of the future artifacts is to open up for speculation and debate about what the relationship between humans and other species could – and maybe should - look like in the year of 2092.

The students are in the Design for Planet programme, which specialises in sustainability and design.

Please note: the exhibition will be taken down 4 April at 15.00.

Spring opening on 1 April
If not before, you can enjoy the exhibition on Friday 1 April when the Geographical Garden celebrates spring with a speech by the Mayor of Kolding and the opening of another exhibition: 'PlAntepiOnerens Verden' inside Aksel Olsen's home - the place where the initial idea of the Geographical Garden was born.