--- title: "Work, Torus" description: "Talks, research and projects from thirteen years of work on time, with links." url: https://torus.eco/work language: en direction: ltr translation_status: original original_languages: [en, pt] updated: 2026-11-04 site_version: 35 publisher: Torus Ecosystems of Change license: Short quotations with credit and a link are welcome. See https://torus.eco/terms --- # Work Talks, research and projects. Thirteen years of work on time, with the links to check it. ## Cases ### Organizations that took back their own time. Foundations, NGOs, universities and cultural institutions arrived running on a calendar set by others. Each case shows what they asked for, what we did, and what changed in how they decide and how they keep their people. We publish a case only when the organization has read it and agreed. 2022 to 2024 #### Heritage innovation C4Education and the Heritage Innovation Lab, University of Jena, Creative Europe 1. 01 **Who arrived** The University of Jena, leading C4Education, a Creative Europe project of the Time Machine network, with partners in Austria and the Netherlands. 2. 02 **What they came with** A project built to create bridges between European technology startups and heritage institutions: galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Two worlds with different languages and different clocks. 3. 03 **What we did** Two years of coordination and business strategy across the partners, and the design of the Heritage Innovation Lab, the space where the two worlds could work together. 4. 04 **What they received** A working Heritage Innovation Lab and a public marketplace where startups and heritage institutions can find each other. 5. 05 **What changed** The two sectors gained a public place to begin from, which stays online after the project closed in June 2024. 6. 06 **The number** Two years, three countries, one public marketplace still online. 2024 to 2025 #### Ancestral AI AIxDESIGN, with the Creative Industries Fund NL 1. 01 **Who arrived** AIxDESIGN, a community working on design and AI, with support from the Creative Industries Fund NL. 2. 02 **What they came with** A question: what changes in AI when it learns from Indigenous and Afro diasporic ways of knowing, and how can that happen without taking the knowledge away? 3. 03 **What we did** Research lead for twelve months, from March 2024 to February 2025: the research frame, the interviews and the writing. 4. 04 **What they received** The Ancestral AI research, with its own public project page at AIxDESIGN. 5. 05 **What changed** The research did not stay on the page. It entered classrooms, in the Master in Design for Responsible AI at Elisava, and led to later work with Unearthodox. 6. 06 **The number** Twelve months of research, one public project page, and a classroom that kept the work. 2025 to 2026 #### Futures for nature Unearthodox 1. 01 **Who arrived** Unearthodox, which runs the Creative Futures for Nature programme and the Exploration Co Lab for innovators. 2. 02 **What they came with** A programme on science fiction, AI and futures for nature, and a cohort of innovators who wanted to think about time and temporality in their own projects. 3. 03 **What we did** Contribution to the Creative Futures for Nature dialogues in 2025, translation of interviews from Portuguese to English for Ancestral AI, advice for the 2026 programme, and a workshop on time and temporality for the Co Lab, built around experiments and dialogue on time, technology and the more than human. 4. 04 **What they received** A 120 minute online workshop for eight innovators on 24 September 2026, and the interview transcripts translated into English. 5. 05 **What changed** The innovators came away with new lenses: they built experiments, talked about time, technology and the more than human, and rethought how they act inside their own projects, not only in theory. Over two years, the work grew from translation and dialogues to workshops and advice. 6. 06 **The number** Eight innovators, a 120 minute workshop, and two years of work that kept growing. 2026 #### Horizons Instituto Toriba and Manos Visibles (AfroInova) 1. 01 **Who arrived** Instituto Toriba, in Brazil, and then Manos Visibles, in Colombia, which arrived through Toriba for its AfroInova programme. 2. 02 **What they came with** Toriba knew how to speak with philanthropy and wanted to turn its ideas into offers, with its own structure, price and model, for other audiences. Manos Visibles brought seven young Black Colombian leaders, most of them in technology. 3. 03 **What we did** Horizons, a journey of five meetings with the Toriba team and fellows: locate, understand, name, land and weave. For AfroInova, a version in Spanish: an immersion in Rio de Janeiro on 6 and 7 August 2026 and weekly online sessions until the closing on 6 October. The tools: a compass instead of a map, rhythm instead of speed, and three lenses (artist, leader and scientist). 4. 04 **What they received** For each meeting, a recording, activities and materials in a shared hub, and a group chat to continue between sessions. At the end, a closing session with what the group produced. 5. 05 **What changed** The Toriba team practised turning its work into offers. The format has now been delivered twice, in Portuguese and in Spanish, and the hub became the model for Toriba's own continuing course. 6. 06 **The number** Seven young leaders, five meetings, two languages, delivered twice. More cases are being written with the organizations that worked with us. [Ask for a reference conversation](https://torus.eco/work#inv) We introduce you to someone from a past project, with their agreement. ## Seen at Places where this work has been shared. The Conference, Malmö, 2024. **Future Days, Lisbon** 2024 Everything is Temporal **The Conference, Malmö** 2024 **MozFest House, Amsterdam** 2024 **What Design Can Do Live, Amsterdam** 2024 Facilitation **Casa Firjan, Rio de Janeiro** 2023 Festival Futuros Possíveis **KES Summit, Trancoso** 2023 Talk **TEDxRio** 2020 Talk, online **Fractal** 2016 to 2025 Protagonists of the times, with Perestroika ## Selected work, with links 1. 2026 ### [Paper "Temporal Obscuration", Temporalities of AI](https://www.biblhertz.it/events/45218/2631954) Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome 2. 2025 ### [Unearthodox, Futures for Nature](https://unearthodox.org/annual-report-2025-reimagine/) Science fiction, AI and futures for nature, in partnership with Unearthodox. 3. 2024 ### [Talk at The Conference, Malmö](https://videos.theconference.se/gustavo-nogueira-de-menezes-from) Video, 16 minutes 4. 2024 to 2025 ### [Research lead, Ancestral AI](https://aixdesign.co/projects/ancestral-ai) With AIxDESIGN, supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL 5. 2022 to 2024 ### [Coordinator, C4Education](https://marketplace.heritageinnovation.eu/about-us/) Heritage Innovation Lab, a Creative Europe project led by the University of Jena 6. 2024 ### [MozFest House Amsterdam](https://pretalx.com/mozfest-house-amsterdam-2024/speaker/8387NT) Mozilla Festival 7. 2024 ### [Facilitator at What Design Can Do Live](https://www.whatdesigncando.com/speakers/gustavo-nogueira-de-menezes/) Amsterdam 8. 2023 ### [Casa Firjan podcast, new relationships with time](https://www.casafirjan.com.br/podcast/lab-de-tendencias/42-experimentando-novas-relacoes-com-o-tempo-com-gustavo-nogueira) Lab de Tendências, Rio de Janeiro 9. 2023 ### [KES Summit, Trancoso](https://mitsloanreview.com.br/e-se-a-imaginacao-fosse-uma-tecnologia/) Covered by MIT Sloan Review Brasil 10. 2020 ### [TEDxRio talk, "Uma nova relação com o tempo"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaIE_JmjxY) Video --- Torus Ecosystems of Change · gust@torus.eco · https://torus.eco/work [中文](https://torus.eco/md/zh/work.md) · [Español](https://torus.eco/md/es/work.md) · [Português](https://torus.eco/md/pt/work.md) · [Français](https://torus.eco/md/fr/work.md) · [العربية](https://torus.eco/md/ar/work.md) · [日本語](https://torus.eco/md/ja/work.md)