Tiroler Tagesstimmung
A speculative broadsheet newspaper from Innsbruck, dated 17 September 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 Tiroler Tagesstimmung, a speculative futures artefact from Innsbruck 2055. Created for Walk the Futures by Suzanne Whitby, it imagines a disciplined society where climate goals have been achieved, but at a cost.
Walk the Futures, an immersive, multi-sensory walkshop exploring alternative futures for Innsbruck.
About this artefact
Title:
Tiroler Tagesstimmung: The Voice of Tirol
Year: 2055 (imagined)
Artist: Suzanne Whitby
Created: 2025
About the Tiroler Tagesstimmung
The Tiroler Tagesstimmung is a sensory artefact from a possible world of Discipline: a future where sustainability targets have been achieved through surveillance, compliance, and social control.
Participants encounter the front page during the Walk the Futures experience, where it functions as a tangible prompt, something to hold, read, and discuss, to help make this future feel immediate and plausible.
Small textual and visual details embed key themes:
- The “FreiSein” movement, a rebel group resisting state control over sustainable living.
- Metrics on carbon compliance, rationing, and wearable-linked monitoring.
- Lifestyle fragments like “five low-carbon date ideas” and “protein futures” that normalise constraint.
- A tagline: Klarheit. Ordnung. Zukunft. This signals order and control as civic virtues.
This artefact invites participants to ask:
What do we trade for sustainability, and what freedoms do we keep?
Holding the paper in hand makes the world of 2055 feel oddly familiar, close enough to be credible, unsettling enough to provoke discussion about governance, trust, and responsibility.
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As part of our walks, walkshops, and workshops, we create custom-designed sensory artefacts for imagined futures, alternative presents, and speculative pasts. We work in collaboration with cultural institutions, festivals, and community projects.
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