Each year, the VLC identifies a topic of urgency and resonance that becomes the subject of various public programs – Speculating on Change is the annual theme for 2009-2010, in response to the Obama call for “change we can believe in.” The discussions probe perceptions, descriptions, measurements, and meanings of change that inform collective action, whether political, scientific, or cultural. Speculating on Change also entails projection, prognosis and risk, and embodies the fluid and divergent time space continuum of contemporary existence. The programs are tied to the previous cycle on democracy as an eternally deferred state. Both program cycles received the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.