Public Installation
Miradouro do Futuro
A rotating public installation first developed in Lisbon, inviting people to look at familiar places through possible futures.
Using speculative storytelling, AI-generated imagery, spatial design, and digital fabrication, Miradouro do Futuro transforms future scenarios from a private screen-based experience into a shared public encounter.
Rather than viewing possible futures on a personal device, visitors encounter them through a physical structure situated in public space, creating opportunities for collective reflection, discussion, and imagination.
AI + Fabrication
Speculative design
Interactive installation
Services
Speculative design, interactive installation, AI-generated imagery, digital fabrication
Supported by
FabLab Lisboa · Albatroz Engenharia
Presented at
Gentler Futures Festival (2024) TEDx Marvila (2026) Gentler Futures Festival (2026)
Project Overview
Miradouro do Futuro is a speculative public installation that invites people to stand within a real place and look into an alternative version of it.
Participants approach a physical viewing structure, interact with its rotating head, and encounter future visual scenarios connected to the landscape around them. The experience creates a window between the city as it exists today and the possibilities people may wish to imagine for it.
Rather than presenting a single prediction, the installation creates space for conversation: What should this place become? What should we protect? Which futures feel desirable, possible, or worth resisting?
The project combines speculative design, generative AI, spatial storytelling, public participation, and digital fabrication to transform future-thinking from an abstract exercise into a tangible public experience.
From V1 to 2.0
Design & Fabrication Process
Credits
Concept, Research, Design & Facilitation
Megan Ammari
Production Partner
FabLab Lisboa
Engineering Support
Albatroz Engenharia
Presented At
Gentler Futures Festival (2024)
TEDx Marvila (2026)
Gentler Futures Festival (2026)
Venues
Mouraria Creative Hub, Lisbon
Pátio da Galé, Praça do Comércio, Lisbon
Supported By
DGARTES
