TTF 2021 Future Premium

Future Premium, Предстоящая Выплата Nico Alexandroff (UK), Klára Peloušková (CZ), Alisa Silanteva (RU) Current technologies of abstraction allow for the past to inform present human actions in order to produce viable futures. However, the understanding of the future as uncertain and volatile doesnt match the way these technologies are deployed or the way climate related risks are approached. Future Premium explores the ways humanity has conceptualised the future, the technologies that made these ideas possible, and the tools and policies it designed to manage chance and misfortune. Specifically, it focuses on the technologies of insurance and computer modelling and explores their historical, presentday and possible future convergences. The project enquires whether when coupled with climate modelling, insurance can become a medium of climate mitigation and governance. The idea is based on the consideration that the future is deeply uncertain and therefore needs to be conti