Future Beyond Repair ("FBR") is an independent research notebook about materiality, regeneration, tactics, openness, and futures.
I set up FBR in November 2024 as a subsection of my website, with an initial collection of recent texts. It was created to hold space for reconnecting with and going beyond earlier projects, in an attempt to overcome the limitations of our ways of seeing things in these turbulent times.
Have a read at the texts here, and feel free to contact me to discuss these and other ideas.
Felipe Schmidt Fonseca
Climate fatigue and convivial futures
Posted on
9th Dec 2024
The accelerated and unchecked pace of development of digital technologies is notably problematic. International Organisations like the United Nations are increasingly describing the ill implications of technologies to be as challenging as the effects of climate change. These are indeed intertwined m...
On openness, circularity, and spirals
Posted on
5th Dec 2024
We live in times of crises. Not a single crisis, but multiple, plural, and interconnected ones. Environmental degradation causing extreme climate events. The severance of social bonds, generating insurmountable polarisation – not only of opinion, but fundamentally of world-views – and leading to a g...