In Drawing Futures, the authors engage with the contemporary globalised, interconnected and interdependent world and its future making. To make sense of the complexity, Adam and Oliver explore the intangible realms of time and the future as they are lived, approached, used and abused. They delve into those realms with words and drawings, abstracting and extracting essences in their efforts to make invisible change-processes visceral, drawing on lived experience, drawing out new meanings and drawing in their readers.

An adventure incommunication this book invites readers to participate in the sense-making as they explore, meander, dream and meditate on Oliver and Adam’s collaboration in visual art and theory.

“Drawing Futures by Barbara Adam and Seth Oliver masterfully bridges the precision of decades-long research on time with the evocative ambiguity of artistic expression.

This remarkable collaboration does not merely explore temporalities and futures— it enacts them, inviting readers into a richly layered dialogue where theory and image converge to reveal the unseen rhythms that shape our shared existence.” Frederic Hanusch, Professor of Planetary Change and Politics, Giessen University, Germany.

“Abstraction for these authors equals Mystery. Not foggy trips but Mystery of the enlightening and positive kind where you go through something and come out changed. What the two make themselves into, maybe we all could be? Hope made manifest.” Matthew Collings, artist, art historian, broadcaster

"Such a lovely and special event to launch the beautiful ‘Drawing Futures’ by Barbara Adam and Seth Oliver. The book was born of a rich collaboration between Barbara and Seth, between image and text, between art and poetry, so it was only fitting that the launch should comprise an exhibition, films, music, dance, pictures, and spoken word. " Professor Peter Madden, OBE