In recent decades, we have seen a constant increase in uncertainty about the future and the world around us: from great technological advances to outbreaks of economic, social and health crises. Suddenly, we begin to be more aware and to perceive more seriously that the world changes very quickly, and not always in the desired direction. The challenges we face in our environment seem impossible to solve, and the fact is that they are indeed complex problems: from climate change to population decline or people's rights. These challenges are increasing every day and are driving the world, as we know it, into an impasse.

If we want to be resilient in the face of uncertainty and move towards livable futures, we need to rethink how we manage our environment, be brave and start talking from vulnerability, asking ourselves difficult questions and exploring diverse answers; possible and impossible, utopian and dystopian, to end up making decisions with an eye to the future. We need a shift in favor of long-term strategies, and that's why it's important to rethink what questions we ask ourselves on a day-to-day basis.

How can social security and health care be guaranteed? How will the industry be restructured, given the global labor shortage? How can we transition to a zero-emissions future while ensuring everyone's well-being? And how would we live there? How will education adapt to the constant uncertainty and rapid evolution in knowledge? What mobility bets should we make for the next 20 or 30 years? What will family structures look like in 2050?

These and many other questions are just the beginning of an inquiry into the future we desire and want to realize. A process where one issue can lead to another, and another, and a discharge; where we ask ourselves "and why not?" with every idea. Whether small or fat, apparently good or bad, complacent or radical. Simply because it provides us with dreams and goals to work for or defend. Or because it helps us know what we want and what we don't, and above all, how we want to make it possible. A process that should allow us to communicate the future we want and make decisions.

The Institut pel Futur was born to energize this process of inquiry through tools and strategies for prospective futures, design and co-creation, from democratic radicalism. We want to facilitate discussions and debates that produce new shared imaginaries about the future, that allow us to make long-term decisions, collaborate to make these imaginaries a reality and disseminate them. From the institute, we therefore want to accompany decision-making with a systemic, long view, all the while illuminating beacons that guide us on this journey through the darkness of uncertainty towards the best possible future.