2059 Speculative Peculiars is an imaginary and visionary glance at the future of urban landscapes. It is an interdisciplinary program about the possible and the impossible, the politics, subcultures, developments and conventions that will govern and shape Amsterdam and Montreal 50 years from now.

Speculative Peculiars wants to explore how we will live, work and socialize in the future. What kind of places we would frequent and what kind of people we would meet. It wants to map how we would give meaning to our surroundings.
Speculative Peculiars invites all kinds of people from Amsterdam and Montreal to use the tools they’ve acquired on the job—writing, designing, art directing, inventing, strategizing, mapping or doodling—to express their time traveling, mind-altering vision on Amsterdam and Montreal in 2059.

Their ideas will be put out there for all to worship through monthly events open to public, fanzines, and the best ideas will be further developed in the laboratory. 2059 Speculative Peculiars consists of five public events where artists, writers, scholars, scientists, designers, politicians, etc. will give their impression of their cities in 50 years time from now. They are asked to research trends from today, something they see as important, or maybe even irreversible, and extrapolate these trends to the not-so-distant future. Their work will also be available in fanzines, through the Speculative Peculiars blog and the Sid Lee Collective blog. Read Less