Abstract
This chapter deals with a basic question: which kind of memories does the future need? The answer dictates the paragraphs’ succession: we will begin with discussing the interplay between memories and the public discourse; we will focus on the relationships between spaces of experience and horizons of expectations; and we will discuss the meaning of ‘working through the past’. After some notations on autobiographical narratives and the meanings of nostalgia, as well as on the specific impact of the media and the ‘new media’ in shaping our representations of the past, we will arrive to the notion of ‘memories of the future’, that is, the examination of the ways by which remembering and criticizing some futures we imagined in the past may be useful to renew present actions. At the end, an answer will be consigned to the following chapters: what designing the future needs is that kind of memory which consists of the capacity of transforming the past in experience.
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