Foundation for Future Aesthetics
Mission
The Foundation for Future Aesthetics curates, promotes, and supports optimistic and realistic visions of the future expressed through the arts and sciences.
The aesthetics of the future shape the future itself. The images and stories a civilization circulates about its tomorrow influence what it discovers, what it creates, and what it builds. We’re funding the writers, artists, and scientists making a better one.
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We’re building the home of optimistic, realistic, sci-fi.
Science fiction worth emulating. Original short stories of tomorrow. Nonfiction companion essays from working scientists. Artwork commissioned from a variety of creators.
We’re looking for contributors across every role: writers, artists, field experts, partners, donors, and friends of the project.
Learn more →What We’re Building
Our Initiatives
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Possibilia Magazine
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Possibilia is the foundation’s literary magazine. Original short fiction set in believable, recognizably better tomorrows, paired with companion essays by working scientists and original artwork commissioned for each piece. We publish in print and online, and we commission the writers, artists, and researchers telling the stories that will shape and inspire our reality.
Possibilia is the foundation’s literary magazine. Original short fiction set in believable, recognizably better tomorrows, paired with companion essays by working scientists and original artwork commissioned for each piece. We publish in print and online, and we commission the writers, artists, and researchers telling the stories that will shape and inspire our reality.
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OURS: Exhibition & Salon
August 2026 · NYC
A one-night exhibition and salon in New York that puts speculative artwork on the walls and the people building it into reality at the lectern. Scientists, philosophers, artists, and builders give short provocations. Original work hangs around them, available to take home. Guests from a broad spectrum of fields fill the spaces between, because the future is shaped by everyone. Venue [TBA], NYC. August 2026.
A one-night exhibition and salon in New York that puts speculative artwork on the walls and the people building it into reality at the lectern. Scientists, philosophers, artists, and builders give short provocations. Original work hangs around them, available to take home. Guests from a broad spectrum of fields fill the spaces between, because the future is shaped by everyone. Venue [TBA], NYC. August 2026.
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Industrial Garden
Summer 2027 · Proposal Exhibit
A gallery-style mixed-medium art exhibit of design plans for Industrial Garden, the foundation’s proposed maker space in New York City. The space pairs local craftspeople with hard-tech founders, sharing professional-grade equipment and workspace under a self-sustaining model that subsidizes the smaller side from the heavier. We’re seeking founding funders to back the venture from the exhibit forward into reality.
A gallery-style mixed-medium art exhibit of design plans for Industrial Garden, the foundation’s proposed maker space in New York City. The space pairs local craftspeople with hard-tech founders, sharing professional-grade equipment and workspace under a self-sustaining model that subsidizes the smaller side from the heavier. We’re seeking founding funders to back the venture from the exhibit forward into reality.
Possibilia by Dylan Weiler
Resources
Where to next?
Manifesto: forging our future through optimistic science fiction
Why we believe the stories we tell about tomorrow shape the world we actually build. The visionary case for an optimistic, realistic memetic infrastructure.
Submit work to Possibilia
We’re commissioning fiction, nonfiction companion pieces, and original artwork. Read the guide, then send your pitch. We respond within four weeks.
Support the foundation
Be a modern Medici — back the artists, writers, and researchers building a better century. We’re a 501(c)(3); fully tax-deductible.
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