THE TIME TRAVEL AGENCY

We help people build optimistic futures. 

The Time Travel Agency operates under the cover of a speculative design and innovation studio in the Nordics, the Americas, and online. 

Our studio is a response to hopelessness about the future. We aim to reach futures in which people possess agency and feel happy to be alive.
For organizations that need to survive, we help them to adapt.

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The Time Travel Transmissions

THE TIME TRAVEL AGENCY


We help people build optimistic futures.


░ SELECTED CASES
The Laboratory of Donated Dreams
August Wilson: Speculative Theater
MUNA Lab
Intended Collaborations
Assemble Pgh
Palindrome
The Laboratory of Future Sound / Futurofono
Future Headteachers
Petroterapia
The City of Remote Work
GROUND
The Walking City
DATTOPIAS
The Writer’s Game
Columbia College Chicago
The Laboratory of Optimistic Futures
SOMEONE BLEW UP THE BALLOONS: The BoostDAO
Antenna
Speculative Day of the Dead
Agendas
The Algorithm of Donated Dreams
Scenario design: MOVING DAY
Scenario Design: Bedtime Stories for Computer Dreaming II
Worldbuilding Collection I

░ WHY TRAVEL
░ ABOUT US

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The City of Remote Work 

A participatory investigation of the culture and future of remote work




After Spring 2020 caught us divided between our posts in Sweden and Denmark, unable to work in person, our peer agents inspired us to develop a study on the culture & future of remote work using our experience from working in the tech sector for a decade.



The scenario


No need to panic. We designed a remote city in 2060 and invited peers from all over the world to work online and build it together for an hour a week during two months.

People worked collaboratively using Miro, which proved even before lockdown that ideation and co-creation can happen, and even thrive, remotely. This Future can be visited anytime with the guidance of a time travel agent.


The artifacts aka Optimistic Speculations


Instead of focusing on tools or apps for remote workers, we developed scenarios that corresponded to the virtual needs that challenged this future society. We played with isolation, identity, richness, nature and sustainability in order to invent new spaces, rituals, and healthy work habits.

In The City of Remote Work there are spaces for leisure, learning, commuting, consulting laws and governance, inspiration, and fun.

There is a GIF(T) SHOP that any traveler can visit after touring the city and capture its favorite spots (using screenshots).  These are turned into postcards of the city that anyone can send via a postal service called Antenna.

The city is always open to visitors, and sporadic building sessions will keep happening. 

The process, experience, and outcomes are documented in the film below





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Famous sightings:



The Museum of Improvised Art





The Fountain of Inspiration







The Garden of Comfort







The Optimistic Self-Defense Classroom









The GIF(T) Shop







We thank all the courageous travelers who contributed to this investigation:


Gokul Nair
Clara Llongarriu
Natalia Santolaria
Marcus Bader
Viktor Lysell Smålänning
Rebecka Nilsson
Jenn Leung
Denise Thwaites
Anaïs
Thomas Romlöv
Staffan
Åsa Ohlsson
Mary Toreld
Albert Cañigueral