Subject to Futures

Dr. Derek Woodgate
consulting futurist, educator, writer, speaker, and curator

The keynote by Derek Woodgate draws from his upcoming book. It explores progressive culture, hidden in invisible studios and clandestine labs, and integrates transdisciplinary sciences with cultural conflicts to challenge conventional boundaries. The keynote focuses on how progressive culture redefines concepts, values, identity, and aesthetics, offering new paradigms. It also examines how secret research and DIY experimentation impact future topics, including species hybridization, cyborg technology, transgenic bodies for surveillance, and the quest for levitation and teleportation by future tribes and superpowers.