“The Spanish Meteorology Agency estimates that summer has become ten days longer each decade since the 1980s.”

Summer is the concept at the heart of “Scenes 01: Summer Days Are Not Over.”

Summer provides a break from our obligations and a momentary release from our daily routine; it invites us to focus our time and energy on the things that matter most, outside of work. Technology, politics and the economy remain suspended in air, so as not to break the holiday magic.

Instead we talk about the places we visit, the people we meet and the novels we enjoy, feigning ignorance of the political, economic and social factors that make these choices possible.

Summer is associated with a series of specific ideas. Holidays, beach, sun, ice cream, sightseeing… However, these archetypes are but a few decades old, and in the future, summer may be quite different from today.

What will summer be like in the year 2100? In this soiree, we used the idea of summer and its imagined reality as tools to explore a future that is neither utopian nor dystopian. We examined current conversations about summer and its cross-cutting issues, work, economics, leisure and food, to understand the emerging changes that could redefine how we experience the summer season.