Science meets Fiction 2022
2022-09-26 - 2022-10-09
From September 26 to October 9, fictional visions of the future from the science fiction genre were juxtaposed with scientific findings in numerous events. Climate. Changes. was the common theme of all festival contributions to Science meets Fiction 2022. This was to focus on the climate crisis, the biggest global challenge of the already very near future. But the festival also addressed changes in the political and social climate; after all, it’s not just temperatures that are rising.
More info: https://sciencemeetsfiction.org/

General Meeting and Annual Conference of the Network for Futures Research
2022-10-27 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online-Veranstaltung
On October 27, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., we will hold our annual digital meeting this year, with numerous reports on the exciting activities of the past year and inspiring reflections on how we can move the network forward together.
Within this meeting, the election of the members of the Steering and Decision Board (Vereinsvorstand) will also take place. Members are still invited to become candidates for this until 18.10.2022 – 6 pm.
We look forward to your numerous attendance!

Founding of the Bavarian Foresight Institute
2022-11-11 12:30 - 18:00 | Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Esplanade 10, Ingolstadt, 85049, Deutschland
On November 11, 2022, the first Foresight Conference of the TH Ingolstadt and the founding ceremony of the Bavarian Foresight Institute will take place at the Ingolstadt University of Technology. The key data for the event can be downloaded here. The event is open to all interested parties and free of charge. The conference language is German. Event registration

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NTA10 conference «Digitisation and culture»
2022-11-14 10:00 - 2022-11-16 15:00 | Kursaal Bern, Kornhausstrasse 3, Bern, 3013, Schweiz
Digitisation and its diverse features have set major societal transformations in motion, and the impacts are felt in all areas of life – also in the cultural sphere. Here, the term “culture” is used in a general sense that covers locations, artists and cultural professionals, cultural formats and expressions, as well as persons and institutions involved in cultural mediation.
This shift to a virtual world is raising complex questions about society, democracy and government. How is digitisation changing culture in terms of the ways in which we experience and grasp “world”? And not least with regard to culture itself, how is digitisation affecting the essence of cultural expression along with our understanding of what “culture” is? How is the relationship between audience and artist changing? What opportunities and risks arise regarding participation? What consequences does the digital transformation have for how an audience engages with the world through a cultural lens, and what are the related implications for self-reflection? What does it mean that commercial platforms are increasingly used in cultural mediation – both for cultural diversity and for artists and cultural professionals? What changes are seen in places of cultural creation and in how material and immaterial goods are preserved? How do these developments bear on state-funded cultural promotion? Are there differences in German, Austrian and Swiss cultural promotion strategies?
These are some of the questions addressed at the 10th NTA conference in Bern, on 14–16 November 2022.
Registration period extended until Monday, October 31, 2022
For further information and to register, please visit:
Gestreamt, gelikt, flüchtig – schöne neue Kulturwelt? | TA-SWISS

Futurological Breakfast: Our hopes, our fears, our future - insights from the hope barometer
2023-01-19 09:00 - 10:00
At our first Futurological Breakfast in 2023, Dr. Andreas Krafft will present and discuss with you the key findings of the current hope barometer. Dr. Krafft is Co-President of Swissfuture, the Swiss Association for Future Research.
Since 2009, the hope barometer has been collected for the coming year in a broad internet survey with the support of the largest Swiss media publication. Starting in Switzerland, the survey is now also being conducted in cooperation with renowned universities in Australia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, India, Israel, Italy, Malta, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
Save the date: You are welcome to make a note of February 21st, also from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. At our second Futurological Breakfast this year, Christian Sprengel will discuss an impulse on strategic foresight and geopolitics with you.

Futurological Breakfast: Impulse for Strategic Foresight and Geopolitics
2023-02-21 09:00 - 10:00
At our second Futurological Breakfast this year, Christian Sprengel will discuss an impulse on strategic foresight and geopolitics with you.

Tag der Zukunftsforscherinnen (Day of Futurologists)
2023-03-09 18:00 - 22:00 | Ellery Studio for Creative Strategy, Glogauer Straße 19, Berlin, Berlin, 10999, Deutschland
The colleagues from Zukunftsforscherin.de invited to their first face-to-face network meeting on March 9th in Berlin. The aim of the event was to reach a mixed audience of futurologists and people from science, politics and business who are interested in futurology topics.
Three futurologists gave insights into their work, after which there was room for exchange and networking in a relaxed atmosphere.
All genders welcome.

Futurological Breakfast: Regenerative Futures and Artificial Intelligence
2023-05-05 09:00 - 10:00 | Online-Veranstaltung
Sustainability is more than energy from renewable sources or less waste in the world’s oceans. It is not for nothing that the UN Sustainable Development Goals alone include hundreds of indicators that make social, ecological and economic sustainability measurable worldwide. But what measures can organizations such as companies, associations, authorities, etc. start with?
Springer VS Verlag is currently producing a three-part volume on this question. Kai Gondlach is one of the five editors and will present the project at the Futurological Breakfast. More about Kai Gondlach at www.kaigondlach.de or www.profore-zukunft.de
Save the date: You are welcome to make a note of June 20 (9:30 – 10:30 a.m.). David Weigend will then present the educational offerings of the Futurium in Berlin under the title “Explore the future playfully”.
As always, we look forward to your lively participation and a good exchange of ideas!

Futurological Breakfast: Explore the future playfully
2023-06-20 09:30 - 10:30 | Online-Veranstaltung
On June 20th, David Weigend will introduce us to the educational offerings of the Futurium in Berlin. David heads the Education and Participation department and helped set up the institution. He will give us a look behind the scenes and explain the future boxes for example.

Afterwards we want to discuss together: What does good “future education” look like? Which methods from future research are particularly suitable for education and teaching? ​Details ansehen 75 / 5.000 Übersetzungsergebnisse Übersetzung star_border And what is this “futures literacy” that everyone is talking about?

Please note that this Futurological Breakfast only starts at 9:30 am!

Save the date: Please make a note of September 26, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. After a short summer break, the Futurological Breakfast will return with a contribution by Prof. Ralf Isenmann, who will report to us on a recently completed project in Tunisia under the title “TRIFOLD 2.0 – Developing a joint STI Roadmap for a Technopol in Tunisia”.

As always, we look forward to your lively participation and a good exchange of ideas!

Holitopia 2023 - Symbiotic Politics
2023-09-07 16:00 - 2023-09-08 17:00 | Spreehalle, Berlin, Reinbeckstraße 16, Berlin, 12459, Germany
During the WFSF World Conference in 2022, some of our members took the chance to explore the re:future lab in Berlin, with exciting insights and in-depth discussions. Therefore, we are now happy to make a recommendation here for the re:future lab’s immersive symposium fusing art, sciences, technology and futurology to facilitate positive futures scenarios.
HOLITOPIA is an annual symposium to explore alternative futures and open the vast ﬁelds of human fantasy. It has been tailored for innovative businesses, futurologists, strategists, facilitators, applied scientists, creative and cultural practitioners, as well as to curious minds beyond all disciplines.
If you are a change enthusiast, HOLITOPIA is for you.
The experience. 10 top-notch artists and experts (urbanists, anthropologists, economists, system designers, architects, philosophers, nature scientists, and a composer) in one place at one time will share their ideas, visions and expertise—unﬁltered.
Once you enter the space, the story has already begun.
Forget about the typical gap between stage and audience. This is a forum to re-think, co-create and dream. A set of undisciplinary discursive formats, art performances, interactive experiments and unpredictable interventions, will be presented to you in an immersive setting. This is a chance to experience art as an equally valuable form of knowledge transfer. This year’s theme, Symbiotic Politics, focusses on urban and biological speculations, ethics and technology, zero-carbon societies, queer ecologies, and the superhero narrative.

Annual gathering and general meeting 2023
2023-11-09 10:00 - 14:30
The first highlight of the day will be a short presentation on the Hope Barometer by Andreas M. Krafft, with a short initial survey round and following discussion. You can find more information about this here.
As usual, this will be followed by the Board’s reports, the vote on the discharge of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board and, after the lunch break, the reports from our network.
The second highlight of the day will be the presentation of our network’s young talent award to Louisa Kastner for her outstanding work entitled “Reframed Futures als kontrafaktischer Kontext transformativen Lernens”, with a presentation and discussion.
We look forward to seeing you again – albeit virtually – and hope for lively participation and future-oriented discussions.

Futurological Breakfast: Emotional Futures with Katharina Schäfer
2024-10-22 09:00 - 10:00 | Online-Veranstaltung
