Ancient Futures is a female-led multidisciplinary design research collective. It operates within the modes of indigenous crafts, ancestral knowledge, design, and biotechnology to envision regenerative futures rooted in earth, ecology, and heritage.
By blending the worlds of the grown and the built, Ancient Futures creates culturally driven, lightweight, and adaptive forms that align with natural cycles and challenge conventional design paradigms.
Supported by: The British Council
Curated and Led by: Dana Molzhigit, Hana Cvelbar, Vladislav Sludskiy, Asel Yeszhanova, Altyn Mustafina
Partners: Eurasian Cultural Alliance (Kazakhstan), bioMATTERS (UK), MOC Hub (Uzbekistan)
Additional project partners include: Paritet Buro, Center Rog, Acies Bio, Tadiart, Urban Research Laboratory, Bio-ID, iGEM NU Kazakhstan, InBio, enabling cross-border collaboration and research integrating heritage and biotechnology.