What if all jobs were hypercreative? What if all work was seasonal? What if you only worked on what you loved? What if you could access more layers of your mind?

From September 19th, the Museum of Tomorrow, managed by Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Gestão (IDG), opens its new exhibition, Ofisuka 2068 – Imagining a Future of Work, and invites visitors to discover a possible future for professional life 50 years from now. This future, in particular, was imagined by designers from the European Institute of Design (IED), the team at the Laboratory of Tomorrow's Activities | LAA, a space presented by Santander, and young people who will likely witness this future, in which an estimated 65% of children currently in primary school will engage in activities that do not yet exist.

"We sought inspiration in a sort of preferable future, among the many possible paths. We started from the premise that 50 years from now, the most obvious economic and social issues will have already been addressed, and we bet on the emerging trends that depend on the choices we make as a society," explains Marcela Sabino, curator of the exhibition and director of the LAA. "The exhibition is, above all, a provocation to imagine and create a tomorrow beyond the narratives of extreme automation and technological unemployment that dominate today's headlines. The exercise we undertook combined creativity and science to construct an idea of the future of work that was more positive than those we see in movies and science fiction," she adds.

At the exhibition, visitors are greeted by a large Ofisuka (a word meaning home office in Japanese), a versatile environment that combines work and social interaction in a collaborative way, which the exhibition's curators believe will be very popular in 2068. In contrast to the trend of excessive virtualization, Ofisuka is a workspace where people can move for seasons to develop specific projects, works or ventures.

"We ask ourselves: what would be the role of human beings in a society where issues like minimum income have already been addressed, and technology will continue to redefine standards of comfort, efficiency, precision, and productivity? Perhaps our place is to develop more creative work. We imagine that in 50 years, people from all over the world will organize themselves through temporary projects in spaces like Ofisuka to develop new organizations, initiatives, research fields, or to create scientific, technological, or artistic activities, for example," he concludes.

The methodology used to create the exhibition was based on the discipline of "Futures Studies," which assists in the development of strategies, public policies, and new products and services to influence possible futures. The exercise involved analyzing signs of change and their implications over time and at various social, cultural, environmental, and business levels.

The exhibition will showcase potential new professions, such as Oneironaut (miners of raw dream matter) and Pensigner (thought designers), who facilitate the hypercreativity of a future marked by the union of technology, people, nature, and society, enabling new ways of organizing, interacting, and consuming. Thus, knowledge in design, psychology, mathematics, neurobiology, philosophy, and meditation will be important for future professionals.

The narrative journey will also showcase possible patterns of work 50 years from now: hypercreativity, which unites individuals with technology; chimeras, new hybrid organizations between humans and non-humans that will live as families; and artificial people—capable of managing their own resources and establishing exchange relationships. In the exhibition, visitors will be able to see tools and equipment that will be used in 2068, such as the gel refrigerator, 3D printers that will create furniture and exoskeletons, food printers, visualization masks, and sleep pods. People will be able to enter the Capsules where the Oneironauts mine raw material from dreams, interact with an augmented reality prototyping tool in Projectum, enter meditative states in Dream Pods, and manipulate dream scenes in the ComumSonho - Prototyping Studio. The exhibition Ofisuka 2068 – Imagining a Future of Work, in partnership with designers from the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), will be on display until January 2019.