Time Zone Generator

The Time Zone Generator is a collective experiment with rezoning the time zones, and unmapping the imperialist global time colonization project with a Black futurist lens.

An image, sound, smell or song that reminds you of your earliest memories.
Are there places in your neighborhood or community where you feel like you belong? Out of place? What about these spaces make you feel different?
Can we alter the past? Why or why not?
Create a future memory.
Do other aspects of your identity or culture play a role in how you view or experience time (i.e. gender, sexuality, age, race, ability/disability)? If so, how or why?
Do we or can we create or change the future? Why or why not?
Does your religious or spiritual beliefs (if any) play a role in how you view time and eternity? If so, how?
Growing up, how did you envision your future self? Is it different or the same as the person you became?
Has time sped up as you’ve gotten older? Has your time perspective shifted in some other way?
How do you define the concept of time? How is it similar or different from how your family or your community defines it?
How do you experience time?
How does Astrology influence your sense of time (if at all)? How does it influence your sense of Universal Time?
How far back are you able to trace your roots? What evidence or documents do you have?
How would you describe the pace or temporality of your neighborhood, community, or region?
If humanity were able to build a time machine, should we use it? Why or why not?
If you could create a new rule or protocol of time, or rewrite an existing one, what would it be?
Share an altered past event.
What ancestor would pull you back into time like kindred? Do you know why?
What are some of your earliest memories? What images do you remember?
What are songs and sounds that remind you of home? What are future songs and sounds of your neighborhood? What are songs and sounds that represent the history and/or past of your community?
What does it mean to be “On Time”? Is it similar or different to how your family, community, or culture would define it?
What evidence, artifacts, or documentation do you have of your ancestry?
What is an event on your personal timeline that you would change or alter slightly?
What is one event on the world timeline that you would change or alter, and why?
What kinds of thoughts or feelings come up for you when you think about the “PAST”?