The Platform

Building Our Future is a platform about how civilisation-scale systems get built — and who decides.

The future is not imagined.
It is allocated — through land, infrastructure, capital, and governance.

Each season examines a different layer of how the future is allocated — from physical constraint to political choice, conflict, and repair.

What the future is made of
Energy · Compute · Materials · Food · Cities · Capital

Question addressed:
What are the real constraints shaping the physical future?

Who decides when systems collide
Governance · Consent · Planning · Capital committees

Question addressed:
Who has the authority to choose between competing futures?

When co-operation breaks
Energy security · Strategic materials · Infrastructure as power

Question addressed:
What happens when cooperation breaks and resilience matters more than efficiency?

What we got wrong, and what we do next
Stranded assets · Dead typologies · Adaptive reuse · New ownership models

Question addressed:
How do we redesign systems without starting from zero?