“What do you want to be when you grow up?” — the question gained new layers of complexity in the exhibition The Future of Professions, which was on display from August to November 2025 at the Exhibition Space of the Fiesp Cultural Center, in São Paulo. Free and interactive, the exhibition invites the public to imagine the possible paths in the world of work, in constant transformation. The initiative is from SESI Lab, in Brasília, which received 170 thousand visitors during the season in the federal capital, with conception and production by Expomus.
Research carried out by the Institute for the Future points out that 85% of the professions that will exist in 2030 have not even been created yet. “The speed and sophistication of technological innovations are responsible for this percentage that challenges the present to imagine what the future of work and professions will be like. Transformations in professions do not occur in a linear or homogeneous way. Some regional and social markers define much of what each one ‘will be when they grow up'”, say André Couto, Maria Carla Corrochano and Paulo Pontes, who sign the curatorship.
In the exhibition, it is clear that transformations do not occur equally – gender, race, class, territory and education continue to dictate who accesses certain professions. In times of technological advancements and global challenges such as climate change and pandemics, work becomes increasingly unpredictable — but also full of new possibilities.
Accessible and provocative, the exhibition articulates past, present and future, based on data, real experiences, digital interactions and informative content about professions that are disappearing, reinventing themselves or being born in the face of new technologies and ways of life.
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