Words have the power to shape reality. Wor(l)ds for the Future is a set of map making tools to reimagine common landscapes. We invite you to delve into the materials and traverse the texts in any way you desire: by cutting and pasting the printed matter, or by unravelling the texts online. The choice is yours. You can reconstruct images and reinterpret wor(l)ds, to create Wor(l)ds for the Future. This project is a republication of Words for the Future (2017/18), a series of ten essays curated and edited by Nienke Scholts. In the 2020 version, XPUB (Experimental Publishing) students from the Piet Zwart institute reinterpret the original material through methods such as annotating and prototyping in Python (a coding language we used to analyse text as texture). The ten essays were cross-examined and mapped in order to find interconnections and links.

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