Co-Creating Tomorrow's World
Art for FuturesSustainabilityTransformationHumanity
The future is a sea of possibilities within a space of exploration and imagination.
Dive deep into our projects or fly high to be inspired.
• The mission •
What does Art for Futures Lab do?
The Art for Futures Lab explores probable futures with the aim of spreading knowledge about social and technological innovations. IT aims at developing sustainable practices and lifestyles through co-creation.
This open and participatory project aspires to convert dialogues into a collective imagination. We promote holistic personal and social growth, higher quality of wellbeing, and cooperative responsibility.
“If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up people to gather wood, assign tasks and divide up the work, but teach the people to long for the vast, endless sea.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Aim •
What is the reason behind the project?
Due to the complex socio-economic, cultural and ecological challenges, strong images and value-based visions are needed to convey confidence and to be able to steer towards positive, sustainable futures.
Central to the Art for Futures Lab is the aim to change social interaction to facilitate progress for common goods. The lab relies on creative, decentralized and socially supported solutions to cope with global challenges within the framework of planetary boundaries.
• future prototyping •
What do our cities look like in the futures?
We work with methods that have been modified from world-building, design-thinking, re-gnosis, speculative design and future prototyping. Based on an interdisciplinary process scenes for the year 2045 or 2050 are developed.
These are based on utopian futures trends such as the "Technotransformation World" (relies on solutions through technological progress) and the "New Greening World" (relies on nature-based solutions and concepts such as bioeconomy or circular societies).
• Co-creation •
Upcoming Events
MAR
01 - 07
NOV 23
A collaboration project between SRH Berlin and D2030 e.V.
SRH Berlin, Germany
• The Utopians •
Project Coordinators
Prof. Angelica Boehm
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Angelica Böhm is a qualified interior designer and production designer for cinema, TV and theater. She has been a member of the German Film Academy since 2013, and is a professor for scenography at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Her production design has been implemented for numerous national and international film productions.
Nicole Loeser
The Institute for Art and Innovation
Nicole Loeser, Board Director at the Institute for Art and Innovation, is an art and innovation manager, and serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in cross-sectoral collaboration with institutions and corporations worldwide. Her work is grounded in her interest in artistic and scientific research, as well as in social innovation theory and practice.
• Our Partners •
