Future Ancestral Technologies (2018-ongoing) is a series of creative interventions by Cannupa Hanska Luger that harness science fiction’s power to shape collective thinking, serving as a conduit to imagine the future on a global scale. TIPI: Transportable Intergenerational Protective Infrastructure (We Are Live III) expands on the series’ ongoing narrative in which Indigenous people apply sustainable technology to live in deep attunement to land and water. The customary form of the tipi, a Northern Plains nomadic shelter, is designed to be contrary to notions of permanence, highlighting adaptation to seasonal conditions with minimal impact on the environment. This architectural design has been engineered and maintained for thousands of years through an innovative cultural continuum. By foregrounding Indigenous technologies developed through borderless societies, such as with the tipi, the artist asserts the critical role of cultural knowledge which has survived nomadic peoples worldwide. In this installation, the tipi’s skin is constructed from a high visibility retroreflective material outstretched in a brilliant display of illumination to celebrate the tipi’s form and to highlight Indigenous knowledge systems as critical for the survival of the human species in an uncertain future. With this installation, Luger compels us to confront human movement and depleting resources while foregrounding innovative solutions for an adaptable lifestyle to live with the land, rather than exploit it. Placing the past and the future in dialogue through speculative fiction, Luger points out that technology is not the mechanism, but the ideas carried throughout time.