KINWORK.tirol: the Future Jobs portal (Innsbruck, 2055)
A speculative employment booklet representing a Transformation future in Tirol, 2055. Created as a sensory artefact (visual, tactile) for the Walk the Futures: Innsbruck Edition in 2025. Artist: Suzanne Whitby.
Overview
This Field Note showcases a speculative employment booklet created for Walk the Futures: Innsbruck Edition, representing a Transformation future. This is a world where work, purpose, and care are redefined through deep collaboration between humans, AI, and the more-than-human world.
Walk the Futures is an immersive, multi-sensory walkshop exploring alternative futures for Innsbruck.
About this artefact
Title:
KINWORK.tirol: Connecting people, intelligences, and ecosystems since 2043.
Year: 2055 (imagined)
Artist: Suzanne Whitby
Created: 2025
About KINWORK.tirol
This tactile booklet presents job listings for a society that has shifted from extraction to regeneration, from hierarchy to kinship. Its tone is familiar (professional, practical) yet its roles reflect profound systemic change.
Participants can browse openings for Memory Gardeners, Ecological Grief Counsellors, GAIAI Treaty Liaisons, and Sound Weavers, positions that blend science, empathy, creativity, and interdependence.
On reading the booklet, you might notice:
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Everyday realism: The design mimics a local job circular, complete with URLs, contact details, and “advertise with us” copy, making the imagined world feel credible and lived-in.
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Values embedded in language: Words like kinship, care, adaptation, and coexistence appear where we might expect efficiency or growth.
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Reversal of priorities: “Success” here is measured by restoration, emotional literacy, and planetary wellbeing — not productivity.
When sharing this artefact, we notice an sffective response: Participants often say, “I want these jobs to exist.” That longing is the work: a felt realisation of what transformation could mean.
In Walk the Futures, this artefact represents the culmination of the journey, a tangible, optimistic future. Handling the booklet sparks joy, curiosity, and grief for the present. It’s not utopian; traces of complexity remain. But it offers a hopeful reimagining of how humans, AI, and ecosystems might coexist in 2055.
As with all senstoryscapes artefacts, its function is to reduce psychological distance, inviting participants not just to imagine change but to feel its possibility.
Overheard: “I want to apply for this job.”
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