ReservasdelFuturo (Reserves of the Future) was born from a simple yet urgent idea: life is sustained by networks of relationships that need to be kept in balance. When a species disappears, when a territory is fragmented, or when a natural cycle is interrupted, it is not just one part that is altered: the functioning of the whole changes. Ecosystems thrive on mutually reinforcing connections, and understanding this web is essential to imagining a livable future.
This program seeks to open up precisely that perspective. We work with students because the future is not an abstraction, but a continuity that is being built right now. Future generations will have the task—and the capacity—to repair links, restore balance, and activate new forms of relationship with the territory. And art, as a sensitive and critical tool, offers a space where these questions can arise, transform, and even become action.
At each meeting, students approach the thinking and work of Nicolás García Uriburu as a starting point for looking at the world in a different way. Workshops with artists, visits to the studio, and experiences at El Potrero Reserve allow this reflection to take shape: in materials, in processes, in questions that return again and again to the same themes—how do we care for what sustains us? What bonds do we need to rebuild? What futures are we capable of imagining?
The name of the program indicates its purpose: to create reserves, not only of territory, but of sensitivity, awareness, and possibility. Spaces where future generations can learn to read the environment, to listen to what is alive, to understand that the future depends on collective decisions that honor that interdependence.
Reservas del Futuro is, in short, a place where education and art come together to cultivate something essential: the ability to imagine continuity, balance, and care.
Because what comes next—what we can sustain, regenerate, or transform—will be in the hands of those who today are beginning to discover that the world can also be thought of in terms of sensitivity.
🌱 We are deeply grateful to the artists who accompanied this edition:
Faivovich & Goldberg, Lucila Gradín, Teresa Pereda, Irina Kirchuk, Luis Terán, and Pablo Lapadula.
