DAY 2

A FUTURE EVENT

Creative Media 2026, IM A&IC, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Enrique García-Alcalá

TODAY

01

The canvas

Brief, concepts, what we expect

02

Make it look

CSS, images, video

14:00

Advising

Optional, come with questions

16:00

Presentations

In the room and online

YESTERDAY

01

The future is built

Montfort, Estridentismo, Felguérez, Nortec

02

Some futures get lost

Bifo, Fisher, slow cancellation

03

The cone

Probable, plausible, possible, preferable

THE BRIEF

A cultural event in 2050. You invent it

A story happens inside it, from one perspective

Teams of 3–4, one Twine per team

Festival

Party

Concert

Museum

Exhibition

Theatre

Library

Opening night

Fair

Heritage site

Ritual

REMOTE TEAMS

Working from a distance

01

Remote students team up only with remote students

02

No hybrid teams

03

Follow these slides, same canvas, same Twine

04

Present online at 16:00

05

Send your .html file and your canvas to egarciaa@tec.mx

SIGNALS

Things you can already see today

Summers too hot for open air

Ticket prices going up

AI in music, images, curation

Too many tourists in some cities

Less public money for culture

Noise rules, fewer clubs

Everything filmed and streamed

Energy is more expensive

Only examples. Bring the signals you see in your own work

YOUR ENDING

Imagine three, choose one

Probable

trends continue

Plausible

one more change

Preferable

what you would fight for

Possible

out of the brief

WHOSE EYES?

One person tells the story

Someone who attends

The producer, on the night

An artist on stage

Security or cleaning

A neighbor

The sponsor

The system that runs it

Someone who could not get in

STRUCTURE

START

Arrival

MIDDLE

A problem

CHOICES

Different paths

END

Your ending

10–12 passages

The paths can be different, the ending is the one you chose

ONE SENTENCE PER BOX

FUTURE EVENT CANVAS

01 THE EVENT

Name, what it is, where

02 SIGNALS

What we already see today that leads there

03 WHAT CHANGED

The world of the event in 2050

04 WHO RUNS IT

Who organizes, who pays

05 WHO IS IN

Who comes, who stays out

06 WHAT SURVIVES

One thing from today that is still there

07 WHOSE EYES

The person who tells the story

08 THE LOOK

Colors, typefaces, images

09 ENDINGS

Write the three, choose one for your Twine

PROBABLE

If today’s trends continue

PLAUSIBLE

If one more thing changes

PREFERABLE

The one you would fight for

EXAMPLE

EL FESTIVAL INVERNAL

THE EVENT

A music festival that only happens on winter nights

SIGNALS

Heat waves, summer festivals cancelled

WHAT CHANGED

Summer is for staying inside, winter is for going out

WHO RUNS IT

A cooperative of small venues, with city money

WHO IS IN

Residents with a culture pass. Tourists pay double

WHAT SURVIVES

Dancing in the street, together

WHOSE EYES

The sound technician of the main stage

THE LOOK

Cold blue, breath in the air, flashlights

PROBABLE

An energy company buys the festival. Shorter, more expensive

PLAUSIBLE

A blackout. The festival moves into the metro stations

PREFERABLE · CHOSEN

Free stages in every neighborhood, run by local associations

ATTENDUS

What we will look at

01

Every link leads somewhere

06

The reader understands what changed since today

02

The story happens inside your event

07

The canvas and the Twine tell the same story

03

The ending sits in the probable, plausible or preferable

08

“Created by” and every name, inside the Twine

04

One clear perspective

09

Presented at 16:00, in the room or online

05

A style of its own

SIGN IT

In the first passage of your Twine

Created by
Name Surname, Name Surname, Name Surname

No names, no grade

THE LOOK

Same passage, two worlds

CYBERPUNK, 1980s · OFTEN PROBABLE

In 2050 the festival starts at sunset. The stage is a parking lot.

Follow the music

Go home

SOLARPUNK, 2010s · OFTEN PREFERABLE

In 2050 the festival starts at sunset. The stage is a parking lot.

Follow the music

Go home

Twine 2 editor: a map of linked passages and a passage being edited

STYLE IT

The look is part of the world

Story › Stylesheet

One CSS file for the whole story

tw-story

the whole page

tw-passage

the text box

tw-link

every link

tw-sidebar

the undo and redo arrows

CSS RECIPES

Colors and links

tw-story {
background: #0e0d14;
color: #e6e6ff;
}
tw-link { color: #ff2bd6; }

An image behind everything

tw-story {
background: url("URL") center / cover;
}

A Google font, first line of the stylesheet

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/
css2?family=Space+Mono");
tw-story { font-family: "Space Mono"; }

A box to read on

tw-passage {
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
padding: 2em;
}

MEDIA

Inside any passage, if you want

Image

Video

YouTube

Right click on an image, copy image address. The YouTube ID is the part after watch?v=

FILL THE CANVAS

20 MIN

Canvas first, Twine after

One sentence per box

Start with signals, finish with the endings

Choose your ending, then open Twine

BUILD

PRODUCER

Canvas, coherence, time

WRITER

Passages and links

DESIGNER

Stylesheet and images

First goal: you can play from arrival to your ending

ADVISING

14:00 · OPTIONAL

Come with questions

Bring your canvas and your Twine

BEFORE 16:00

01

“Created by” and all your names in the first passage

02

Play it from the start, every path

03

Build › Publish to File

04

Send the .html and the canvas to egarciaa@tec.mx

team-names_event.html

PRESENTATIONS

16:00 · IN THE ROOM AND ONLINE · 5 MIN PER TEAM

01

Your event and its signals

02

Whose eyes, which ending

03

Play one path, live

DOES THE FUTURE STILL EXIST?

One word each

MERCI

Enrique García-Alcalá

egarciaa@tec.mx