Still sitting with this conversation from Creative Days Barcelona…
A few days before, I was in Berlin with Futurity Systems, talking about the future of heritage, culture, and how we design experiences that don’t just preserve the past… but help people imagine new relationships with it.
Then, a few days later in Barcelona, I found myself on stage with Cecilia MoSze Tham, moderated by Manel González-Piñero, speaking about creativity, entrepreneurship, AI, cities, and the strange human ability to imagine futures before they exist.
It felt like one continuous conversation.
From Bauhaus to AI.
From heritage to simulation.
From cities to cognition.
From creativity as craft… to creativity as a way of synthesising possible futures.
For me, this is also deeply connected to what we are building at MidBrain.
The human brain is not just a machine for remembering the past. It is constantly simulating. Predicting. Combining fragments. Testing possible futures before they happen.
Imagination is not an escape from reality… it is one of the ways we prepare reality.
And maybe that is why simulation, design, art, science, and entrepreneurship are so connected. They are all ways of asking:
What could happen?
What should happen?
What kind of future are we rehearsing into existence?
It was also very special to finally meet Cecilia in person after so many years of talking, exchanging ideas, and building in parallel… and to visit her lab in Barcelona.
Some collaborations begin long before people are physically in the same room.
And when they finally are, you realize the conversation was already alive.
Thank you Creative Days Barcelona, Tech Barcelona, Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation, Entrepreneurship, Manel, Cecilia, and everyone who joined the discussion.
The best conversations don’t end on stage…
They keep moving between people, places, and the futures we are still learning how to imagine.