What No One Saw

Four rooms diagnose the same failure and none of them says forecasting. 7 Sentidos de Futuro starts from the claim that at the root of every crisis lies a crisis of perception. Cartografia Afetiva asks you to slow the gaze. Conselho de Todos os Seres takes the human off its pedestal for ninety minutes. And Janissek-Muniz's sensemaking holds that to anticipate is to build interpretations out of weak signals.

What no single session says: the forum treats anticipation as a sensory problem, not a statistical one — which is why it teaches exercises rather than models.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 3, leaving 3 out of reach — 4 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: Slowing down is a technique · Futures are read in weak signals · What the machine cannot do is what counts

The education panel names it without hedging: a crisis of the social imagination, the loss of any capacity to picture possibilities worth looking ahead for. Carlo Franzato, at Ecotopias, calls the ecological crisis a crisis of design and of imagination alike. Reimaginação Radical and the passage from future-phobia to future-topia attack the same point from opposite directions.

What no single session says: the programme does not treat scarcity of data as the problem. It treats scarcity of desire — and proposes imagination as public infrastructure.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 2 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Future-phobia is a social symptom · Whoever teaches decides the possible · The colonial print can be rewritten

Cartografia Afetiva invites you to slow the gaze and notice what usually goes unnoticed. Conselho de Todos os Seres sets aside ninety minutes to inhabit another perspective on life. Amazônia viva fills the atrium for nine hours with the Tapajós in 360°. Vivência do Tambor and Banho de Didgeridoo ask the same thing of the body instead.

What no single session says: slowness appears here with scheduled duration and a method of its own. It is not the gap between activities — it is one of the techniques the forum teaches.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 1 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: Perception precedes prediction · The body learns before the concept · Affect is information

Glaucia Guarcello, author of Menos Forecast, Mais Foresight, proposes leaving the logic of prediction and control for a mindset of anticipation. Jogo Futuros Possíveis, from Firjan IEL's trends lab, hands the group signal cards to choose between. Janissek-Muniz places the same gesture inside anticipatory strategic intelligence. Scenarios Planning and Future Thinking drill the reading itself.

What no single session says: a weak signal only becomes a trend once somebody decides it matters. The programme teaches an interpretive competence and calls it method.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: A scenario is not a forecast · Foresight is also an executive product · Perception precedes prediction

The education panel opens with a blunt question: why are so many young people losing the ability to imagine desirable futures? ESPM's research with secondary schools measures the same thing. Carlos Piazza asks what is left of us between carbon and silicon. Carreiras Climáticas answers from the other side, with young people leading green work.

What no single session says: paralysis before tomorrow appears as a collective-health phenomenon with an age bracket — not as individual pessimism.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: The crisis is of imagination, not data · Youth is not audience, it is party · Whoever teaches decides the possible

Conselho de Todos os Seres opens with a question: what future can you imagine while seeing yourself as separate from the life that sustains you? PUC-Rio's Casa Comum organises its teaching around the recognition that everything is interconnected. Das Ecosofias às Ecotopias and Visão Integral repeat the move in a systems register; Futuro Multiespécie does it in a legal one.

What no single session says: the ecological crisis is treated as an error of cognition before it is an error of management. That changes what counts as a solution.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: The social contract needs other species · Everything is connected — as a design criterion · Inhabiting another point of view

Cartografia Afetiva holds that our experience of territory is shot through with affects, memories, sensations and tensions that no map records. Augusto Carminati, after five years of research, treats subjectivity as the thing technological capacity has yet to reach. Mosaico de Memórias and Olhar Narrativo, at MUHCAB, gather exactly that material with collage and paint.

What no single session says: the programme's art workshops are data-collection instruments. They simply are not called that.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 5 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 3, leaving 2 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: Latin America is an emotional reserve · The hand thinks · Slowing down is a technique

Banco de Saberes Oceânicos puts participants to work training an AI by making ethical decisions that shape a speculative future, deliberately mixing scientific, traditional and affective knowledge. Tatyane Ramos calls her workshop Handmade Datasets and Digital Inheritances. Túlio Custódio insists AI must widen human intelligence rather than merely widen the old mistakes.

What no single session says: choosing what enters a dataset and choosing what a generation repeats are the same act of curation, with the same consequences.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: The body learns before the concept · Cultural transition precedes technical transition · Cognitive sovereignty is the next dispute

Vivência do Tambor is billed as hands-on introduction to Afro-Brazilian drums and rhythmic fundamentals. Vivência de Capoeira teaches basic movement, musicality and historical context in the same house. Fundamentos do Samba does the equivalent at João de Alabá, and Samba di Jardim stretches the practice across six hours of open garden.

What no single session says: none of them hands out notes. The content is the repetition and the assessment is keeping up — a complete curriculum that never becomes text.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 4 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 3 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: A dataset is a lineage · The hand thinks · Samba is infrastructure, not folklore

Estamparia Artesanal offers the hand-stamp as a route to more sustainable fashion. Abayomi stitches ancestry out of offcuts. The photography-embroidery workshop is called When Thread Meets Memory. The biomass workshop hands people sugarcane bagasse so they discover for themselves how one raw material yields many products.

What no single session says: in every case the conclusion arrives through the hands before it arrives through speech. The object leaving the room is the argument, not a souvenir of it.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 7 sessions spread across 4 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 3 out of reach — 3 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: The body learns before the concept · The colonial print can be rewritten · Affect is information

The study Túlio Custódio presents looks, in its own words, at the cultural transition that must precede the technological one. Mônica Pereira crosses digital innovation with regenerative thinking. Juliana Proserpio asks what organisations become once intelligence stops being exclusively human. The Ecossistemas track doubts technology alone can produce regenerative futures.

What no single session says: four rooms conclude the tool comes second. Adopted first, it merely accelerates whatever organisation was already there.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: A dataset is a lineage · Regeneration is not better decarbonisation · The machine took a seat

MUHCAB's panel is explicit: memory, ancestry and Afro-diasporic knowledge operate as social technologies for confronting racism and opening new horizons. The guided visit presents the agency and resistance of Black Brazilians as its subject. Circuito Herança Africana runs three hours of open-air class through the port district.

What no single session says: the archive here does not store the past. It is operated in the present, with a declared function and a defined audience.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: Pequena África is a futures laboratory · The ancestor votes in the present · Not all knowledge becomes text

The education panel wants to know what school can do to rebuild the capacity to imagine. ESPM's research applies futures literacy with secondary schools in order to democratise access to scenario-planning tools. Ludmyla's workshop works through the five dimensions of futures consciousness and closes on a Map of Seeds.

What no single session says: if imagining is a teachable competence, then not teaching it is a decision — and it has already been taken almost everywhere.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 5 sessions spread across 2 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: The crisis is of imagination, not data · Youth is not audience, it is party · Future-phobia is a social symptom

Guiamento Cidade Terreiro runs two and a half hours with no handout. Circuito Herança Africana promises a genuine open-air class. The Ecoclima visit presents the territory's environmental solutions by walking through them, meeting at a supermarket on Avenida Brasil. The youth track makes a technical visit to Providência.

What no single session says: these are the programme's longest activities and its shortest descriptions. What they transmit will not fit in the abstract — hence the walk.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 5 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 3, leaving 3 out of reach — 4 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: Memory is social technology · The periphery is a design starting point · The body learns before the concept

The Long Game describes itself as a strategic-imagination studio drawing maps for worlds that do not yet exist, and argues that decisions are born of the futures we choose to rehearse before building. Futures Served stages the rehearsal in thirty minutes of play. Design Especulativo projects concept products for 2035. Banco de Saberes Oceânicos simulates 2045.

What no single session says: the forum barely uses the lecture format to handle the future. It stages it — and treats the staging as evidence.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: The game is decision infrastructure · To speculate is to design · Fiction is evidence

In Jogo Futuros Possíveis, teams gather around a board to pick the cards carrying signals, then argue how those unfold over twenty years. Banco de Saberes Oceânicos lays out paradoxes on seabed mining and ocean governance. The Tech&Touch hackathon gives three hours and a problem. Cartas Multiespécies shuffles who gets to speak.

What no single session says: a board forces disagreement into the open. That is precisely what the slide deck was designed to avoid.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 3 venues across 3 days.

Related ideas: Rehearse before building · Inhabiting another point of view · The prototype starts in your own day

Rafael Bittencourt proposes speculative approaches and radical collaboration as strategic tools, drawing on fieldwork in Vila Elizabeth. Design para o Pluriverso moves from denouncing contemporary hyper-imperialism to announcing possible worlds, with design becoming a politics of enchantment. Bernardo Senna investigates the materials that will compose tomorrow's objects.

What no single session says: speculation here is not a fiction exercise. It is the design phase where the world, and not merely the product, is still up for choosing.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: Design with, not for · There is a community counter-foresight · Rehearse before building

Guarcello proposes widening the capacity to explore different possibilities rather than trying to predict a single likely scenario. The book Cenários Brasil 2045 sets out four possible trajectories for the country, not one. The workshop derived from it practises transposing national scenarios into local territorial planning and action.

What no single session says: a scenario only works in the plural. Collapsing it to the most likely undoes the very thing the method exists to produce.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 5 sessions spread across 3 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Futures are read in weak signals · A national scenario exists only when it lands · Foresight is also an executive product

Conselho de Todos os Seres invites people to step off the human pedestal and inhabit, briefly, another perspective on life. Futuro Multiespécie brings the Earth Species Project's global quantitative data to a table on sentience and law. Cartas Multiespécies corresponds with those who cannot write. Banco de Saberes Oceânicos puts the participant in the system's place.

What no single session says: switching viewpoint appears as a research protocol with an expected result. It is not an icebreaker.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: The social contract needs other species · Separation is a perceptual error · The ocean holds knowledge of its own

Ludmyla's workshop asks each person to design one small experiment to begin in the present, gathering the actions into a Map of Seeds: the path is individual but does not end with the individual. Do Negócio ao Território uses Doughnut Economics to start concrete projects. The regenerative-anticipation workshop works on creating the conditions for other realities to emerge.

What no single session says: the entry scale is deliberately tiny. That is what separates futures literacy from strategic planning.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 3, leaving 3 out of reach — 3 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: The game is decision infrastructure · Territory is the business unit · Perception precedes prediction

The Long Game treats entertainment as a strategic tool for bringing possible futures into the present. Globo's Cultura no Espelho research examines how data, creativity and cultural production build narratives about Brazil. The Síntese exhibition, from the Itaú collection, holds art and technology in one sentence for eleven hours a day.

What no single session says: the programme accepts narrative as proof about collective desire — a kind of data none of the forum's own quantitative research can produce.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Aesthetics bound the possible · Soft power starts from below · Rehearse before building

The Futuro Multiespécie study begins from the premise that seeing animals as property or urban scenery no longer holds, and summons law, architecture and culture to address pacts of survival and citizenship in the Anthropocene. Conselho de Todos os Seres rehearses the same pact with no lawyers in the room.

What no single session says: widening the social contract is a legal problem and an imaginative one at once — and the two rooms never meet.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 2 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Separation is a perceptual error · Nature is already a capital manager · Inhabiting another point of view

Ricardo Mastroti asks what would happen if capital managers learned from systems that have worked for 3.8 billion years, and sums up the principle: nature does not maximise, it optimises; does not extract, it circulates; does not centralise, it distributes. He offers this as a real alternative to extractive capitalism. The biomass workshop demonstrates the same thing at the scale of sugarcane pulp.

What no single session says: it is the most concretely anti-capitalist proposal in the programme, and it arrives dressed as an investment framework.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Someone has to pay for regeneration · The social contract needs other species · Regeneration is not better decarbonisation

Banco de Saberes Oceânicos, from the OCEANICO project run by RITO, builds paradoxes around seabed mining, biotechnology, coastal communities, climate adaptation and ocean governance, ending by feeding a hybrid collective intelligence. Amazônia viva does the riverine equivalent in 360°, with Raquel Tupinambá on stage.

What no single session says: the sea enters as an interested party, not a resource. That reorders who must be at the table before the decision is taken.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 3, leaving 3 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: The social contract needs other species · Inhabiting another point of view · Climate is answered locally

The Futuro Ancestral track proposes displacing the future as linear progress and control of tomorrow, understanding it instead as continuity, communal care and responsibility — with Morena Mariah on Brazilian Afrofuturism, Renata Tupinambá on Indigenous cosmologies, and Gracy Mary, a descendant of Tia Ciata, on community organisation in Pequena África.

What no single session says: swapping progress for continuity changes a project's success criterion. It stops being what advances and becomes what endures.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 5 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 3 venues across 3 days.

Related ideas: Memory is social technology · Pequena África is a futures laboratory · A dataset is a lineage

Juliana Proserpio asks what organisations become once intelligence stops being exclusively human and starts being distributed across people, agents and systems — concluding that we will have to design new ways of thinking, deciding, learning and coordinating intelligence at scale. The AI and Brand debate addresses the impact on identity, authenticity and the very notion of human value.

What no single session says: if intelligence is distributed, governing it becomes organisational design. And nobody in the programme claims that design.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 4 venues across 3 days.

Related ideas: What the machine cannot do is what counts · Cognitive sovereignty is the next dispute · Cultural transition precedes technical transition

The youth track appears three times across three venues, one of them a technical visit structuring territorial assets in Providência. Carreiras Climáticas brings young people leading the futures of green work. ESPM's research asks secondary students about the future instead of talking about them.

What no single session says: the programme alternates between treating young people as the symptom of a crisis and as the ones who resolve it. It never settles the ambiguity.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Whoever teaches decides the possible · Future-phobia is a social symptom · There is a community counter-foresight

PUC-Rio's Casa Comum exists to promote integral ecology as the organising principle of how its students are formed, starting from the recognition that everything is interconnected. The Mesa das Cátedras connects knowledge, cooperation and action across futures studies, education and planetary health. ArteCompostagens takes the principle into organic matter.

What no single session says: interconnection here is a design rule with curricular consequences. It is not a values statement at the end of the document.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: Separation is a perceptual error · Cultural facilities are infrastructure · Nature is already a capital manager

The workshop derived from Cenários Brasil 2045 applies strategic foresight at municipal level, practising the transposition of national scenarios into local territorial planning. Caio Esteves closes his talk by handing back the question: if the future is a collective construction, where does that construction happen if not in places? The Governos track discusses institutionalising this inside the state.

What no single session says: the national scenario is an input, not an output. It becomes a decision only once it descends to the scale where somebody answers for it.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Foresight wants to become state policy · A scenario is not a forecast · Climate is answered locally

Do Negócio ao Território asks what happens when the lens shifts from business-centred to territory-centred enterprise, using Doughnut Economics to read the place and the REconomy Canvas to design. RegeneraRS built models of coordination, financing and implementation at state scale. Ecoclima does the same inside Maré.

What no single session says: changing the unit of analysis changes the balance sheet. Economic, social, cultural and ecological value start being counted together.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 5 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Someone has to pay for regeneration · The creative economy is an ecosystem, not a sector · The prototype starts in your own day

Caio Esteves describes the Place Strategic Foresight© circuit, which starts from the identity revealed by place branding, projects futures out of it, and returns it as experience through placemaking. The Mantos Carioca workshop turns the football shirt into a visual manifesto of carioca soft power. The Casa Aberta print workshop does the same with tote bags.

What no single session says: place identity enters as designable raw material with a circuit of its own. The club shirt and the master plan work the same substance.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: The colonial print can be rewritten · Soft power starts from below · Aesthetics bound the possible

Rafael Bittencourt asks how radical a futures process must be when a community imagines the reality it wants to live in, and proposes the periphery as a design starting point, drawing on Vila Elizabeth and treating speculative design as a vector of post-catastrophe hope. Pequena África Viva convenes those who build the territory daily.

What no single session says: in these cases the community is not consulted about a project. It is the origin of the method that produces one.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: There is a community counter-foresight · Design with, not for · To speculate is to design

Pequena África Viva presents the territory as a living space producing knowledge and possible futures. MUHCAB works in direct dialogue with it. The Caminhos de Ciata tour walks the formation of samba through the same perimeter. The Valonguinho Afro market fills ten hours of street, and Pagode da Gigi six and a half.

What no single session says: memory, economy, research and celebration happen here on the same blocks and often on the same day. That density is what makes the place a laboratory.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 5 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — 2 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: Memory is social technology · Samba is infrastructure, not folklore · The ancestor votes in the present

The RegeneraCultura-curated panel asks how museums and cultural centres can act in regenerating territories, gathering practices in agroecology, permaculture, climate education, local knowledge and collective cultivation. Territórios do Samba treats cultural facilities as assets to be made visible. MUHCAB's panel binds culture, education and territory in a single phrase.

What no single session says: the museum appears as a climate-resilience system. That is a reclassification of function, not a compliment.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Everything is connected — as a design criterion · The creative economy is an ecosystem, not a sector · Pequena África is a futures laboratory

RegeneraRS reports two years as a catalytic philanthropic fund for the resilient reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul after the 2024 floods, with work in education, housing, business support and urban solutions. Ecoclima implements circular economy inside Maré. The SEBRAE panel treats regenerative agriculture as a simultaneous answer to climate, economic and social challenges.

What no single session says: not one of them proposes a national target. All propose multi-sector governance in a named place.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 4 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: A national scenario exists only when it lands · Someone has to pay for regeneration · The ocean holds knowledge of its own

Augusto Carminati starts from the claim that in an ever more objective world, the need for subjectivity — still absent from technological capacity — grows ever more evident, and locates the region's great contribution in the subjective collective intelligence common to Brazil and Latin America. The research O Brasil que o Brasil quer ser maps society's aspirations and tensions.

What no single session says: this is a comparative-advantage thesis. The asset is precisely what the region never managed to industrialise.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 5 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: What the machine cannot do is what counts · Affect is information · Soft power starts from below

The Futuros do Estilo circle shows how Rio's club shirts crossed the stadium boundary to become symbols of cultural influence and urban soft power. Globo's research examines how creativity and cultural production widen the country's global influence through soft power. The Valonguinho market and Pagode da Gigi are the thing itself, happening.

What no single session says: the research quantifies at the Museu do Amanhã what the street market produces outdoors, on the same weekend.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 5 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 3 venues across 3 days.

Related ideas: Samba is infrastructure, not folklore · Latin America is an emotional reserve · Place identity is raw material

Territórios do Samba starts from samba as a transformative cultural force: a Brazilian language able to gather people, preserve histories, create belonging and generate symbolic impact — then asks how design can activate new possibilities for territories marked by its history. Fundamentos teaches the grammar; the Ciata tour shows the network it sustained; Pagode da Gigi runs six and a half hours.

What no single session says: together they describe memory, economy, circulation and bonds — the four functions of an infrastructure.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 5 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 1 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: The body learns before the concept · Pequena África is a futures laboratory · Soft power starts from below

The Casa Aberta workshop starts from the Toile de Jouy in the O Brasil na Garrafa exhibition and proposes re-signifying the imaginary and aesthetics of colonial prints, creating new representations for Rio's futures — an applied exercise in futures design. Design para o Pluriverso makes the same move at national scale, beginning from Brazil's formation as a colonial enterprise.

What no single session says: decolonisation enters here through the surface, literally. Stamp and cloth are the instrument.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 7 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 2 out of reach — 3 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: The hand thinks · Aesthetics bound the possible · The crisis is of imagination, not data

The Futuros do Estilo circle ties carioca pride, music, icons, vintage revival and the city's way of living to the direction of global fashion. The Olhar Narrativo workshop starts from naïf art, urban art, territorial graffiti and Black art as a repertoire of expression. Bernardo Senna treats materiality as a choice that redefines our relations with the world.

What no single session says: what counts as beautiful now bounds what will count as possible later. Aesthetics operates upstream of politics.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Fiction is evidence · The colonial print can be rewritten · Place identity is raw material

Janissek-Muniz and Marroni Borges argue that as AI widens data processing and pattern recognition, it becomes essential to consider what remains irreducibly human: making meaning, imagining futures and steering decisions. They propose an augmented intelligence in which technology amplifies without replacing. Carminati reaches the same place through subjectivity.

What no single session says: both tables defend the same human reserve in incompatible vocabularies — one epistemological, the other affective.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: The machine took a seat · Latin America is an emotional reserve · Perception precedes prediction

The Economia Criativa e Território table promises a dialogue on memories, innovations and possible futures, anchoring creation in place. The creative-economy scenarios panel and the ABEDESIGN prize handle the sector structurally: circuit, recognition, continuity.

What no single session says: creativity only becomes futures capacity when a network sustains it between one project and the next. The programme speaks at length about creation and very little about that network.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 7 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 2 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Territory is the business unit · Cultural facilities are infrastructure · Someone has to pay for regeneration

The Governos track states its object plainly: a panorama, challenges and solutions for institutionalising foresight inside the Brazilian state, with strategy beyond the short term. The Cenários Brasil 2045 workshop practises transposition to the municipality. The Mesa das Cátedras brings academic institutions into the same discussion.

What no single session says: institutionalising anticipation means a post, a budget and a deadline. None of the sessions gets as far as naming who would lose power in the process.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 1 venue and 1 day; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Foresight is also an executive product · There is a community counter-foresight · A national scenario exists only when it lands

Glaucia Guarcello runs strategic foresight for leaders and executives, strengthening leadership's capacity to decide under uncertainty. Túlio Custódio handles AI adoption in corporate work. Juliana Proserpio speculates on the next decade's organisational models. The Long Game sells strategic imagination to leaders, brands and organisations.

What no single session says: it is the same method as the community track, with a different buyer. The technique does not change; who pays for it does.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 2 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Foresight wants to become state policy · There is a community counter-foresight · A scenario is not a forecast

Bittencourt proposes the periphery as a design starting point. The Futuros Comuns circle asks what emerges when design serves the commons, and argues for designing with communities rather than for them. The cooperativism panel treats the cooperative as a technology for building futures. Pequena África Viva speaks through its own leaders.

What no single session says: four rooms claim the method without passing through the consultancy — and not one of them happens on the day the state and the market convene.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: The periphery is a design starting point · Design with, not for · Foresight is also an executive product

The Ecossistemas track asks outright whether technology alone can produce genuinely regenerative futures, answers that regenerating is not merely decarbonising, and demands that the development models which produced the crisis be questioned. The SEBRAE panel, the same day, proposes turning Brazil from an agricultural power into a world reference in regenerative agriculture.

What no single session says: the programme hosts both sides of this dispute without staging it. One room critiques the model the other intends to optimise.

What was missed: This is one of the few ideas that could be followed in full: its 6 supporting sessions fit into one schedule, crossing 2 venues across 2 days.

Related ideas: Someone has to pay for regeneration · Nature is already a capital manager · Cultural transition precedes technical transition

The session on cognitive sovereignty and the right to reality brings Eduardo Saróm, Vanessa Mathias and Thulio Custódio together to close the day. The panel on heritage and digital security treats autonomy as a concrete question of assets. Tatyane Ramos, in Handmade Datasets, shows that training an imaginary is a technical operation. The ethics, governance and data table closes the circuit.

What no single session says: perception appears as contestable territory. Whoever defines the real defines, in advance, the field of the decidable.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 5 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — 1 time clash between different venues.

Related ideas: The machine took a seat · A dataset is a lineage · What the machine cannot do is what counts

The Futuros Comuns circle invites shared listening on what it means to design with communities rather than for them, and on how situated practices can seed more just futures. Cartografia Afetiva builds collective reflection out of provocations, accounts and situated experience. Territórios do Samba treats its projects as exercises in learning, listening and creation.

What no single session says: displacing authorship displaces the success criterion with it. The project stops being judged by whoever commissioned it.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 4 venues and 3 days; the best possible schedule could reach 4, leaving 2 out of reach — 2 time clashes between different venues.

Related ideas: There is a community counter-foresight · The periphery is a design starting point · To speculate is to design

RegeneraRS operates as a catalytic philanthropic fund and presents models of coordination, financing and implementation. Mastroti translates biomimetic principles into practical ones for impact investing. The cooperativism panel and the Do Negócio ao Território workshop deal with structures that sustain projects after the initial enthusiasm.

What no single session says: these are four answers to the money question in a programme with dozens of sessions on regeneration. The disproportion is the finding.

What was missed: No one saw this idea in full. It rests on 6 sessions spread across 3 venues and 2 days; the best possible schedule could reach 5, leaving 1 out of reach — because of overlapping schedules or travel time.

Related ideas: Regeneration is not better decarbonisation · Nature is already a capital manager · Territory is the business unit