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A Philip Johnson House, Transformed Into a Community Hub for the Future

Story collections on the Reasons to be Cheerful website.

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful Cheers Us Up

A clear bottle of Air Co. vodka.

A Carbon-Negative Vodka Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Storyline

Steinway player piano (Courtesy Steinway & Sons)

Steinway Brings Live Recitals to Your Living Room, Piano and All

An illustration from Night Sky featuring the Virgo constellation.

This App Brings the Cosmos into Your Pocket

A large analog synthesizer covered in Christmas lights.

MIDI 2.0 Expands the Digital Music-Making Toolbox

A man doing bicep curls with a Forme home gym.

Get Your Home Gym (and Yourself) Into Shape With These Solutions

Courtesy Chelsea Green Publishing

Hannah Lewis on the Burgeoning “Mini-Forest Revolution”

Michael Pinsky's Pollution Pod domes, with people inside and out.

Artist Michael Pinsky’s Climate-Action Plan: “Pollution Pods”

Pedro Gadanho. (Courtesy Actar Publishers)

Pedro Gadanho on How Architecture Must Adapt to Our Ecological Emergency

Electronic musician Yoko Sen in the hospital

An Electronic Musician’s Quest to Reimagine Hospital Soundscapes

A map of the world with red dots and forms drawn over it.

Rem Koolhaas Brings the Country to the City With a Guggenheim Show

Olafur Eliasson’s “Tell Me About a Miraculous Invention” (1996). (Photo: Ernest Sackitey. Courtesy SCCA Tamale)

A Multi-Venue Exhibition in Ghana Seeks to Shift Perspectives Through the Lens of Time

Vertical split screen of a woman wearing a face mask and a man wearing a space helmet

Designer Lydia Cambron Makes a Quarantine Version of the Finale of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

CW&T’s Time Since Launch clock. (Courtesy CW&T)

A Brooklyn Studio Whose Creations Alter Our Perspectives on Time

Cecilia Bembibre in a blue shirt, leaning over a table with a book.

Cecilia Bembibre Is On a Mission to Save the Scents of History

The “Urban Sun” installation at the Solar Biennale, designed by Studio Roosegaarde. (Courtesy the Solar Biennale)

An Energy Summit in the Netherlands Imagines a Solar-Powered Future

A screenshot from House Party featuring some of The Slowdown team.

The App That Everyone Is Going to Be Using During the Covid-19 Quarantine

The Three Best E-Bikes on the Market

A white Light Phone in grass.

A Smartphone Alternative We Can Totally Get Behind

A large tray of compost heading into a white container surrounded by plants.

Why Human Composting Is the Future of Death Care

Courtesy MSCHF

MSCHF Highlights the Absurdities of Modern Consumerism—and Makes Money Doing It

Crypto Island podcast cover art

PJ Vogt’s Crypto Island Podcast Explores the Wild Wild World of Digital Currency

Our New At a Distance Podcast Takes a Good Look at the Big Picture

Filmmaker Grace Boyle tracking sensory data in the Amazon. (Photo: Fábio Nascimento. Courtesy Greenpeace)

This London Studio Draws on Smell-O-Vision as a Tool for Promoting Social and Environmental Advocacy

A FarmBot waters a bed of herbs and vegetables.

Plot an Edible Home Garden With This Automated, Open-Source Bot

A Podcast Covering the Vanguards of the Sustainable Food Movement

An astronaut on the moon, with a dome reflected in their visor.

Fish Scales and Lunar Dust May Hold the Key to Building on the Moon

A tin of 4ever mints in peppermint flavor.

Fix Your Bad Breath With These Minty Solutions

Rendering of Drift’s indoor drone performance, “Social Sacrifice” (2022). (Courtesy Drift and Aorist)

In Venice, “CodeX” Offers an Optimistic Take on the Future of Art and Technology

Cover of “Worlds Without End” (2023) by Chris Impey. (Courtesy MIT Press)

Chris Impey on the New Space Race and Exoplanet Habitation

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli

MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Pandemics and Protests

Paper bag on a table with food

How the Too Good to Go App Aids in the Fight Against Food Waste

A bowl of yellow squash and tomatoes.

This App Will Help Get Your Green Thumb Going

Lidewij Edelkoort. (Photo: Thirza Schaap)

Lidewij Edelkoort Starts Up a New Master’s Program in Sustainable Textile Production

Vollebak’s Indestructible Puffer. (Courtesy Vollebak)

From an Indestructible Puffer to 100-Year Pants, Vollebak Makes Clothes for the Future

Meet NASA’s “Nasalnaut”

The cover of the book "Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts" by Jonathan Chapman.

How to Break the Cycle of a Throwaway Society

The cover of “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility” (2023). (Courtesy Haymarket Books)

In “Not Too Late,” a Vital, Kaleidoscopic View on the Climate Crisis

A man in virtual reality playing an exercise game, floating on a disk above a lake.

Break a Sweat to Supernatural, a Home Gym With a VR Twist

Manitoga house designed by Russel Wright

An Exhibition Posits How Design Can Be a Steward of Nature and the Future

A blue, brown, and translucent sculpture by Neri Oxman.

Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight

Tatiana Schlossberg smiling next to the front cover of Inconspicuous Consumption.

Environmental Journalist Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Media Diet

Hands holding the threads of a white roll of fabric.

Using Ancient Craftsmanship, Angel Chang Designs Clothes for the Future

NASA's Eau de Luna perfume next to a pile of moon rocks.

NASA’s “Eau de Space” Fragrance Recreates the Smell of Outer Space

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson looking out over green mountains from a patch of trail.

These Climate Podcasts Focus on Stories, Not Statistics

The Workspace of Tomorrow cover art, featuring a white cube and text on grey-green background.

Introducing Our New Podcast About the Future of Work

Petit Pli clothing

Pleated Clothing Designed to Grow With Your Kid

Dr. Uma Valeti in a still from the documentary “Meat the Future.” (Courtesy “Meat the Future”)

This Documentary Follows a Start-Up Taking Animals Out of Meat Production

Beatrice Galilee writing in a notebook with her laptop before her.

Beatrice Galilee’s New Architecture Conference Takes a Whole-Earth Perspective

A crinkled green tote bag on a white plinth.

A Waterproof, Washable Bag That’s Actually Environmentally Friendly

A submersible robot traveling below the Thwaites Glacier.

This Video Footage of the Thwaites Glacier Shows the Sea Levels Rising Before Our Very Eyes

Black and white photo of a woman jumping rope

How the Pandemic Has Altered the Way We View Everyday Objects

The Future Library Forest. (Photo: Rio Gandara. Courtesy Helsingin Sanomat)

At a Library in Oslo, the Books Can’t Be Read Until 2114

Alien Listening Book

Why Aliens Could Be Able to Listen to NASA’s Golden Record—Even If They Don’t Have Ears

A black bottle reading Saunders & Long.

Saunders & Long’s Ingenious 5-in-1 Grooming Solution

Curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi

At the Armory Show, an Exhibition Where Artists Share Visions of the Future

An orange and white handout from Black Mountain College.

Black Mountain College Is About to Come to a Screen Near You

Sarah Socia. (Courtesy OVR Technology)

The Real-Life Benefits of Augmenting the Metaverse With Scents

“Me + You,” an A.I.-powered installation by Suchi Reddy

This Sculpture Wants to Know How the Future Makes You Feel

The Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway

Bjarke Ingels on Creating Extraordinary Environments for Today and Tomorrow

A split avocado in bright, moody lighting.

Miguel Gonzalez, AKA Davocadoguy, on the Perfect Avocado

Edn's home garden with an assortment of herbs.

A Low-Maintenance Home Garden for the Botanically Challenged

Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

A Radiooooo illustration with a woman with red hair and blue skin.

Avoid Algorithms With the Incredibly Refreshing Radiooooo

Sagmeister 123’s Progress Shirt and Opinion Coat. (Courtesy Sagmeister 123)

With His First Clothing Line, Stefan Sagmeister Visualizes Positive Global Trends

A man wearing an army green face mask.

These Masks Bring New Meaning to “Facial Expressions”

The Earth on a black background

What We’re Reading on the Internet Archive

The classic “Blue Marble” image of the Earth, taken by the Apollo 17 crew on Dec. 7, 1972. (Courtesy NASA)

Marina Koren on Rethinking the “Overview Effect”

Stefan Sagmeister. (Photo: Victor G. Jeffreys II)

Stefan Sagmeister Finds Optimism in the Long View

A trigeminal-based temperature illusion device developed by Jas Brooks, Steven Nagels, and Pedro Lopes. (Courtesy Jas Brooks)

What Will the Metaverse Smell Like?

author and environmental anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva

Environmental Anthropologist and “Feasting Wild” Author Gina Rae La Cerva’s Media Diet

Angela Glover Blackwell looking into a microphone, in front of a blue background.

Angela Glover Blackwell’s Great, Galvanizing Podcast

At a Distance book by Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman

Introducing The Slowdown’s First Book, “At a Distance: 100 Visionaries at Home in a Pandemic”

A hallway in AORA’s virtual gallery. (Courtesy AORA)

These Virtual Exhibitions Draw on the Real-Life Health Benefits of Art

A large crowd protesting for Black Lives Matter in New York City.

Lawyer-Turned-Photographer Cindy Trinh on Documenting New York City Protests

Photo: Andrew Zuckerman

A Start-Up Is Monitoring Space Junk to Enable a More Sustainable Space Economy

Landscape's Stereo Field, a yellow and gold synthesizer.

These Compact Analog Instruments Pack a Punch

Dr. Brian Fisher smiling and examining a pinned wasp.

Entomologist Dr. Brian Fisher on Why Edible Insects are Good for Your Health

Overlapping copies of “No Finish Line.” (Photo: Weston Colton. Courtesy Nike)

Nike Imagines the World 50 Years From Now

Plush, knitted lights in multiple colors with a hand squeezing them.

These Knitted Kinetic Lights Take Playtime Seriously

Daniel Humm. (Photo: Craic McDean)

Daniel Humm’s Giant, Thought-Provoking, Plant-Based Pivot