If there is one fact in our post-digital age that has become increasingly clear, it is this: everything is connected. Science and society, art and politics, language and image, research and discourse, and of course the future. Interdisciplinarity has become the norm. How can you make sense of it all? Where can you find information, inspiration and, in the best case, create something yourself? A good place to start would be the re:future lab. The Institute for Art and Future Design is a renowned and internationally active platform for change, located in Berlin’s Spreehallen. In September, re:future lab is hosting the immersive Holitopia Symposium, which combines art, science, technology and futurology to enable positive future scenarios. Over two days, you can learn from renowned and international minds from the fields of economics, architecture, philosophy, history, political science, urban studies, futurology and technology. There are performances and art, plus opportunities to engage in conversation with other change enthusiasts, systems thinkers and concept designers.
Speakers such as ethics and technology professor Dr. Joanna Bryson (“The incredible Algorithmaticity of Being”), architect Sigurd Larsen, futurologist Jan Berger (“Zero-Carbion Ecologies”), conceptual designer Johanna Seelemann and urbanist Ludwig Engel (“Matters of Co-Habitat in Vertical Sociotopes”) and of course founder and director of the festival Madeleine Schwinge (“Holitopia. Creative Intelligence in Epochal Shifts”) among others will lead through the two-chapter program, offering ad-hoc contributions. Additionally, there will be a performance by artist and composer Ayumi Paul (“All Ears Hear”). The typical divisions between stage and audience dissolve in discursive formats, interactive experiments and immersive environments. This creates space for unconventional and creative knowledge transfer, art as research, non-linear thought structures and new contacts, friendships and networks. The future is simultaneous, it starts now – and it affects us all.
Text: Alina Herbel / Credit: Christian Werner & Spreehalle Berlin
re:future lab, Reinbeckstr.32, 12459 Berlin–Oberschöneweide; map
07–08.09.2023. Early Bird Tickets can be bought here until 20.08.
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