Remembering the Future — Design that projects memories in a non-linear time.
- marisolhdiaz
- Aug 18
- 2 min read
Each line and every form contain shadows of the future.
Since childhood, I carried a strange certainty: sometimes I would tell myself “I don’t have this memory.” And in that instant, I knew with total conviction that what I feared simply would not happen. It wasn’t a premonition or an illusion, but the certainty that the future did not contain that reality.
Today, I think maybe it wasn’t imagination. Perhaps what we call “memory” does not always come from the past, but from a fleeting access to another temporal coordinate.
Physics already gives us hints: quantum mechanics shows us that particles exist in superposed states until they are observed; in other words, all possible futures coexist in the present. Relativity, on the other hand, reminds us that time is not linear: gravity can bend it, bringing past and future together like two surfaces that touch.
The hypothesis I propose is that memory is not only tied to what has already occurred, but also to traces that the mind captures from those future states—like anticipated echoes in the fabric of time. Perhaps science and data do not yet fully explain it, but modern physics offers us a framework to imagine it.
Design, then, can be the laboratory for this theory. Every space not only preserves memories of the past; it also announces memories of the future. A wall is not a limit: it is a surface where what has not yet happened already casts its shadow. A lamp does not only illuminate what is—it contains the vibration of what will come.
Thus, the act of designing is also about formulating hypotheses on time. We create portals where linearity breaks, where we inhabit infinite circles. Perhaps that is what I always intuited as a child: that remembering the future is neither an error nor an illusion, but another way of existing in this quantum universe.
In this way, the past reveals itself as future, the present stretches toward what is to come, and design becomes an act of materialized prophecy. It is not about decorating a place, but about building a portal where time ceases to be linear and becomes a living, infinite circle.
Marisol H. Díaz
Directora Creativa
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