Wishes of Tomorrow: The Transformative Potential of Wishes

Speculative Futures Berlin is initiated by Ellery Studio.
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Why wishes?
What would we have wished for yesterday and what do we wish for today?
Which wishes hold the future?

Not everyone is skilled in developing desirable futures to shape the world of tomorrow. However, we all have wishes. They can be very personal, but still affect us all. Wishes bare hope and can be the impetus to make a difference.

In this workshop we are going to approach the different layers of wishes collected from citizens in five regions in rural areas of Germany. Together we want to explore the following: What questions hide behind our wishes? Which sciences offer answers? What has to change for our wishes to come true? What ideas for the future can be deduced? And what steps do we have to take?

About the project
The project "Wishes of Tomorrow" goes on a search for wishes and ideas for the future from citizens in five regions in rural areas of Germany. Different perspectives, moods and topics that move people are recorded to be passed on to local and national politics. Through participation stations in everyday places, such as market squares, parks or retail stores, as well as in workshops, spaces for encounter and exchange are created. Everyone is invited to contribute their ideas and wishes for the future.

The project is funded as part of the "Wissenschaftsjahr 2022 - Nachgefragt!" by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Science in Dialogue.

Who should be there?

• People who are interested in the transformative power of wishes.
• People who want to get to know new participation formats.
• People who want to exchange ideas with us about interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of shaping the future.

More details about the speaker below.

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Access to the zoom conference:
Date: 16.06.2022
Digital doors open at 18:25 CET.
Begin is at 18:30 CET.

As part of providing a safe experience you need to RSVP with a valid MeetUp account. On the day of the event we will send an email with the zoom link. Please join the event with a valid zoom account and your full name. In case we need to launch a new event due to zoom bombing or other technical issues it would be really helpful if you could provide your email address to avoid the new link being sent to your spam box.

The workshop will be held in English. By joining the event, participants give their consent that we may use the recording for potential social media purposes. Digital doors open at 6:25pm CET. Please be punctual as spots are limited to 100 people and it's first come first served regardless of when you registered on Meet Up.

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Jantje Meinzer (YOUSE) has spend several years in customer relations and online marketing in the Berlin start-up scene after-which she completed a master's degree in future studies. Today, she is looking for new challenges in the participatory and sustainable design of futures because there is no such thing as one future. Curiosity and the question of how we want to live tomorrow drive her to develop new ideas and consider possible future developments, integrating as many individual perspectives as possible in a solution-oriented way.

Jannis Hülsen and Stefan Schwabe (Matter & Meta) both hold degrees in design and are involved theoretically and practically with transformation processes, participation, science communication, innovation processes, imagining the future and encountering the new. They have led the interdisciplinary research project "Farming the Uncanny Valley" at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) between 2018 and 2021 and are currently collecting wishes in rural regions of Germany for the project "Wishes of Tomorrow".