Future You Revisited

FutureYou Revisited is a futures-thinking workshop, open to people of all ages and stages, where you can design your personal time capsule while engaging in academic research in a practical and fun way.

This is an opportunity to think about how the future can be authored in the present, making positive change for individuals, communities, and the environment.

This event offers a welcoming and inclusive space to explore themes of change, self-reflection, and the passage of time. Part of Oxford Brookes’ Think Human Festival, it celebrates the humanities’ power to shape how we see ourselves and the world.

This workshop builds on a long-standing art-research project. Between 2017 and 2019, as part of the FutureYou research-art exhibition, hundreds of young people (aged 12–18) wrote letters to their future selves. These letters—carefully preserved and unopened for up to 7 years—have now been returned to their writers, offering a unique opportunity to reflect on personal growth, change, and generational thinking about the future. Following this pattern, you will have the chance to record your own audiovisual or written artefact to enter the time capsule where it will be kept for 1 year before being returned.