Collective Futures is an initiative by Investigations of the Future.
IF – Investigations of the Future is a non-specific institution whose field of interest revolves around listening practices as a driving force for actions that bring together community-based architecture, cooperative urbanism, sound art, and visual poetry, among other disciplines that shape its identity. Guided by the motto Sonus et Veritas – Sound and Truth – these disciplines find common ground in the act of listening, which serves as the starting point for the development of their projects.
With its physical headquarters located in Villa Lynch – a boundary town between the city of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan outskirts – IF operates out of a former industrial building. Its flexible and diverse configuration allows for work on various scales and dimensions, the exhibition of projects both indoors and outdoors, and the hosting of IF Sessions, IF Radio, and numerous in-person gatherings convened by its community.
IF / Collective Futures Team
Roger Colom is a poet. He worked in theatre for 25 years as an actor, director, designer, producer, and playwright in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. He was the founder of La Internacional Melancólica (2001–2007), an experimental comedy group dedicated to exploring the limits of the laughable. He has lived in Argentina since 2007. In 2011, he founded the Biblioteca Popular Ambulante, a conceptual poetry project – a total and unending poetic work.
Gustavo Diéguez and Lucas Gilardi are architects and founding members of a77. Their projects blend art, architecture, sociology, and urbanism, with a particular focus on the reuse of industrial waste in experimental housing, the creation of ephemeral institutions, the activation of social dynamics in public space, and the self-management of cultural venues. They lead the Taller a77 at FADU-UBA, the Project Experimentation Workshop, and the Technological Experimentation Lab at IA-EHyS-UNSAM. They were awarded the Platinum Konex Award for Public Space Design for the decade 2011–2022. Their works have been realized in Buenos Aires, Brasília, São Paulo, Valparaíso, Barcelona, and New York, and have been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications.
Eugenia González holds a degree in Arts from the University of the Republic of Uruguay (UdelaR). She pursued a Master’s in Visual Arts Curatorship at the National University of Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires). She earned a Postgraduate Degree in Community-Based Cultural Policies at FLACSO (Argentina) and a Diploma in Editorial Policies and Cultural Project at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires. She is the artistic director of MACMO – the Montevideo Contemporary Art Museum (Civil Association) – and co-editor of MUSEO magazine, a documentation platform of MACMO.
Leonello Zambón is an artist based in Buenos Aires. His work explores moments of translation, instability, and malfunction in technological and social devices. In his Dyslexic Machines and Provisional Habitables, architectural practices and sound research intersect to form hybrid environments and inexact tools. He teaches Image Workshop I and II in the Electronic Arts degree at UNTREF and is part of the Visual Arts faculty at the Mauricio Kagel Institute of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM).