ABSTRACT
Possible Greenland was the intriguing title of an exhibition held in 2012 in Venice at the Danish pavilion during the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, or Biennale, the most important of its kind. This chapter investigates the constitutive power of imagining the future by describing the stages of planning and holding the exhibition of Possible Greenland, Greenland’s largest nation branding endeavor ever, seeing it as a future-generating device (Bruun Jensen, 2010). Along the way, the chapter will address how the future is enrolled as part of transforming the present by showing how the world, or in this case Greenland, is represented and enacted through visions of the future. As will be clear, this is not a simple procedure, but rather a cohort of complex and controversy-ridden “futuring acts”.
