How can we imagine what is possible in these troubled times?
How can we inhabit a future that is presented to us as increasingly uninhabitable?
What role can poetry play in encouraging autonomy in the face of feelings of powerlessness?

This inverted time capsule, a message shared by the humans of 2244, takes the form of a diptych combining a sound creation and paper objects offered to participants at the symposium ‘Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias’ organised by CRITS in November 2025 in Ottawa and Gatineau.

This project, in collaboration with Bob Grumiau, is the result of a reflection on poetry as a way of connecting with the pluralistic terrains of the worlds to come. ​

Project design: Alice Baude, Bob Grumiau
Sound creation and mixing: Alice Baude
Paper object design and video recording: Alice & Louise Baude
Proposal adapted for the 2025 CRITS conference.
Thank you to the participants for writing and reading their powerful texts.