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Nowadays, children are growing up in a highly unstable world. In our popular, shared narrative, ‘the future’ seems to have become a synonym for socioeconomic crisis and environmental disaster. In the hugely globalized and intercommunicated reality we live in, this is a story that children can hardly stay oblivious to. A European Union-wide survey showed that 1 in 10 young people between the ages of 11-17 experience mental health issues, with fear of the future being cited as one of their main worries (ChildFund Alliance et al., 2021). “What are you going to do when you are older?” The questions we ask children have become much heavier in recent times, as uncertainty renders their future more opaque than ever. This graduation project started from a very broad inquiry: how can we help children realize the power they have over what the future will be like, through a museum experience? In other words, how can we invite children to speculate about futures in a way that is empowering for them? These questions were posed by Nieuwe Instituut, the museum for architecture, design and digital culture of Rotterdam; they represent the ultimate goal of the Co-Learning Expo, which is currently in its early stages of development. This project’s goal was to provide design guidance on how to engage children in speculation about futures through an empowering, transformative museum experience. In order to do this, literature on futures, children’s development, children’s empowerment and participation in museums was reviewed, as well as case studies of cultural institutions who have co-designed exhibitions or other experiences with children. This allowed for a better understanding of the context that the Co-Learning Expo is seeking to fit into, and to position it as a co-designed participatory exhibition. To gain insight on how participation and futuring are approached in the field of design, several methodologies were looked into, such as Participatory Design, Speculative, Design for Interaction

[ES] Bombeta es una editorial especializada en la publicación de obra gráfica de jóvenes artistas, diseñadores e ilustradores valencianos. Este trabajo final de grado comprende el proceso de conceptualización de la empresa y el diseño de su identidad visual corporativa, de su página web y de material publicitario. Este último se desarrolla empleando técnicas de ingeniería de papel, dotando de tridimensionalidad a las piezas diseñadas., [EN] Bombeta is a publishing house that specializes in publishing graphic works by young Valencian artists, designers and illustrators. This dissertation encompasses the company's conceptualization process, as well as the creation of its corporate visual identity and the design of its website and promotional materials. These aforementioned elements are three-dimensional, having been developed using paper engineering techniques.