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Latent Futures

Welcome to Latent Futures, A narrative-decisional board game for 2 to 6 people. During eight rounds, you will experience the key stages of adulthood, from ages 20 to 60, facing dilemmas that will affect your personal resources and the collective equilibrium.
The aim is to co-create a latent future, uncover hidden patterns and open conversations about how uncertainty shapes our lives and the lives of those around us.

Tutors

Carla de la Torre Maria Moreso José Manuel Paadin

We live in the most uncertain era in modern history, and because of that we have created perhaps the most isolated generation, lacking the informal networks of guidance that once helped young people navigate uncertainty, they are now slowly disappeared, replaced by algorithmic feeds and individualistic self-help culture.

Even when we make decisions individually, their impact extends beyond ourselves. Every choice, no matter how personal, contributes to the world we all share. We are building tomorrow with the choices we make today.

Latent Fututes is social game artifact that makes visible what has been invisible. It creates, visualizes, and compares the conversations we should be having with ourselves and each other, when making life decisions.

This is a game that reveals the unconscious patterns connecting our most personal decisions to the collective future we’re creating together, choice by choice, conversation by conversation. It transforms abstract dilemmas into tangible experiences, making visible the connections between individual choices and collective outcomes.

We’re revealing the invisible forces that shape our lives and exploring the space between who we are and who we might become, and these spaces for conversation are essential when facing crutial dilemmas.

It’s a game that helps people navigate uncertainty together rather than in isolation. It demonstrates how structured conversation can create insights that emerge nowhere else and how making invisible patterns visible can enable more conscious choice-making.

Latent Futures makes these truths tangible. It transforms abstract uncertainty into concrete decision points and isolated choices into collective futures. It reveals that the future has always been latent, waiting in the space between intention and action.

Players discover whether their choices align with dominant social patterns. They leave understanding not just their own decision-making patterns, but their relationship to the broader cultural context shaping those decisions.

Now we can see it taking shape. Now we can choose more consciously how we shape it. Now we can play the game we were already playing, but play it together and play it aware.

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