The ini­tial­iza­tion project FTRS aims at estab­lish­ing new and expand­ing exist­ing  knowl­edge and research land­scapes between var­i­ous fields in design and the social sci­ences through three inter­wo­ven areas:   stud­ies, research, labs. For­ward-look­ing the­o­ret­i­cal, method­olog­i­cal, and ped­a­gog­i­cal approach­es as well as ways of teach­ing and research are par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant in the process of devel­op­ing the over­all project.

The project is con­ceived as inter-insti­tu­tion­al coop­er­a­tions with local, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al aca­d­e­m­ic and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions which togeth­er form a peer-net­work. We delib­er­ate­ly choose FuTuReS in its plur­al and the asso­ci­at­ed ambi­gu­i­ty and mul­ti-tem­po­ral­i­ty, which the par­tic­i­pat­ing dis­ci­plines nego­ti­ate in dif­fer­ent ways in rela­tion to futures and futu­ri­ty (of mate­ri­al­i­ties, bod­ies, spaces, ecolo­gies, etc).