FUTURES Closed July 6
Meet Your Future Guide
What do you see when you imagine the year 2050? What will the world look like? Where might we live? How will we feed ourselves? How do we care for a future that we can’t even imagine? Lots of questions, but who can answer them? Introducing Your Future Guide—a first-of-its-kind digital museum interactive combining technology with Smithsonian storytelling to invite you on a tour of the year 2050 with a citizen of the future.
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Exterior Installation
Contemporary artist Soo Sunny Park’s “Expanded Present” is an ethereal portal of iridescent material designed to inspire and delight.
A Shimmering Gateway from Soo Sunny Park
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Online Residency
The FUTURES Futurist in Residence program invited innovators to think creatively about the future and develop new content to spark delight and conversation.
Futurist In Residence
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Founding Futurists
DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN
JOHN & ADRIENNE MARS
JACQUELINE B. MARS
Major Sponsors
KEVIN S. BRIGHT & CLAUDIA W. BRIGHT
ROBERT KOGOD
Supporting Sponsors
JOHN BROCK III
SUZANNE NORA JOHNSON & DAVID JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Contributing Sponsors
WENDY DAYTON
CHARLIE AND NANCY HOGAN
Additional special and in-kind gifts provided by:
ACCESS SMITHSONIAN
JOSH & SARAH EASTRIGHT
GOODBY SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS
LG DISPLAY
RESEMBLE.AI
IVAN SELIN
BOB AND JOAN CATELL
THE GANDHI FAMILY
JESSIE KELLEY
MARVEL STUDIOS
MARTY RODGERS
SILMAN
THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN & THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL BOARD
VIN DI BONA
GENSLER
KUKA ROBOTICS CORPORATION
DR. JORGE G. PUENTE & DR. PATRICIA MATOS-PUENTE
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FUTURES RECEIVED FEDERAL SUPPORT FROM THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN INITIATIVES POOL, ADMINISTERED BY THE SMITHSONIAN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CENTER