Prometheus Protocol 🔥 in Barcelona
​The Morning After the Bubble Burst
​The AI boom just stopped booming.
​After years of extraordinary investment, the returns aren't keeping pace with expectations. Projects are being delayed, contracts reopened, and promises reconsidered.
​In your city, a major AI infrastructure project is under review. Public institutions are reassessing their commitments. Community organisations are discovering how much they depend on commercial platforms.
​But a crisis can also open a window.
​What does the city actually need? What does it already have, and wants to own? And who would need to come together to build something different?
​🎠Enter the Prometheus Protocol, a participatory rehearsal for exploring who gets to shape our futures.
​Step into possible futures, take on different roles, negotiate competing interests and experiment with different ways of organising.
​Discover overlooked assets, unexpected alliances and new openings. Freeze the scene, step in, and try changing what happens next.
​🔥 Together, we’ll explore:
​What did we actually need, and what can we let go?
​What assets, relationships and infrastructure can we build on?
​Where does power sit, and how might it shift?
​What alternatives could we make possible?
​Expect envelopes, negotiations, awkward trade-offs, shifting alliances and unexpected openings.
​No AI expertise is needed. This is a live rehearsal, not a debate, and there's no preset solution or required happy ending.
​And then?

​The rehearsal is a starting point.
​We're exploring how people across cities and localities might turn these insights into action: mapping collective assets, identifying real-world levers and organising around possibilities they want to make real.
​The Prometheus Protocol is an evolving public experiment by Collective Futures, designed to travel, adapt and help people rehearse ways of shaping the futures they share.
​Curious about hosting your own rehearsal? Get in touch.