Human+: forecasting our future

April 18, 2011 | Source: New Scientist Culture Lab
Human Plus

Human+ exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin (credit: Embryo III © Steve Barrett 2019)

The premise underlying Human+, an exhibition that opened April 15 at the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, is that the future is knowable.

Science Gallery director Michael John Gorman and his team have put together a fascinating array of objects, creations, and schemes, each of which explores some aspect of our engineered future.

Human+ is organized into five categories: “extended ecologies,” “authoring evolution,” “augmented abilities,” “non-human encounters,” and “life at the edges.”

Human+, which marks the 300th anniversary of Trinity College Dublin’s School of Medicine, is supported by the Wellcome Trust. It runs until June 24.

HUMAN+ Image by Steve Barrett, Embryo III