Looking to the future: FUTURO 50/50

Research news - Nanotechnology, robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence - how will today's technologies change the world of tomorrow? Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are now presenting seven future scenarios as part of the FUTURO 50/50 exhibition running until March 18, 2018 at the Pinakothek der Moderne. The results will presented there on Tuesday, March 6, at 6 p.m. Finnish architect Matti Suuronen constructed the FUTURO exactly 50 years ago. These transportable, UFO-shaped buildings were the world's first plastic houses. Visitors can currently admire and explore a restored Futuro at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. However, this vision of the future, popular in the 1960s, is now history itself. How will current technologies influence the world of the future? How will we live and work in 50 years' The curators of the Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum asked TUM researchers for their input on the matter. A team of 28 students from the Industrial Design and Architecture master's degree programs conducted research in various faculties as they developed different forward-looking scenarios.