The future is not imagined.

It is allocated

Building Our Future examines how energy, materials, land, and capital determine what actually gets built.

Season 1: Terraforming the Real World

How the physical world is being re-engineered — and what we’re mis-building today.

Season 1 establishes the physical grammar of the future— the hard constraints that shape what can be built before politics, ideology, or preference enter the room.

→ Explore Season 1

Listening Mode

Designed to be listened to in sequence.
Each episode establishes constraints the next cannot ignore.