In the framework of the symposium by Cybioses - Life in the Future Imperfect*, which run from 2nd-5th of March and delved into the thematic of slow futures, Constant organised a SPLINT game night at Au Jus on Friday the 3rd of March. It was open to everyone who wanted to play some speculative rounds about what a slow SPLINT future might look like.

The SPLINT card game was recently developed by Constant as a tool to speculate and find language for what SPLINT - Speculative, Libre, Intersectional Technologies might look like. On this occasion we combined this tool with the premise that Cybioses was looking into this spring: what if we imagine a future that is not accelerating, but rather slowing down? Bringing the potential of such slow futures to the foreground undermines the premise that speed is characteristic of technological change and that constant social pressure underpins technological disruption, economic growth, and an ability to be detached from its impact on material worlds of great complexity.

*Cybioses – Life in the Future Imperfect is a study group which is part of the Nordic Summer University, a migratory non-hierarchical group of international researchers.