Futures Laboratory
"We are trying to make the Futures Laboratory both aesthetically pleasing and as barrier-free as possible with the resources available to us. As we know, inclusion is a path and we can only take it together."
We therefore look forward to receiving your feedback and concrete suggestions for improvement
Petra, Oliver, & Thomas
initiators
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Futures Laboratory #1
On June 7, 2024, the first creative futures laboratory took place in Lillis Ballroom under the motto “Inclusion – What is and what could be? Look, stay tuned, think bigger.”
Initiated by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Koenig (BSU), Prof. (FH) Mag. Thomas Schweinschwaller (Vielfarben) and Mag.a Petra Schön (Lillis Ballroom and Vielfarben), experts, students and interested parties came together to reflect on inclusive visions of the future and to develop new ideas. "In order to master unpleasant futures and strengthen the future project of inclusion, we must deal with current exhaustion.
We need new stories and practices that go beyond the narrow boundaries of neoliberalism in order to move forward despite exhaustion,” Oliver Koenig (BSU) summarized his theses.
The Power of the "Yes-And" Principle
The participants took the theses in with their eyes closed and then developed ideas for promoting inclusion in various areas of society. They used questions such as 'What do I perceive?', 'What is moving?', 'What drives me?' and 'What is already present in the field but not (yet) visible?' as a framework for looking, persevering and thinking bigger.
The application of the "yes-and" principle played a crucial role in this, opening up spaces of hope and encouraging the exchange of new ideas. The results of the workshop are a variety of ideas and suggestions, including "How do we design movements and encounters?" and "How can we design offers and structures that go beyond simply satisfying needs?"
Stimmen von Teilnehmenden über das Zukünfte-Laboratorium
"What was beautiful was what happened beforehand, in the joint creation and interweaving. The fact that our theses suddenly took on a very unique form of expression when read out to a 'blind' audience was a wonderful and harmonious embodiment of the content," say the initiators Petra Schön and Thomas Schweinschwaller.
"The day was entertaining, rich in content and wonderfully 'unacademic' in the best sense - an inclusion-friendly learning environment. The invitation policy brought people together, which created a valuable and productive climate for exchange and resonance," said Ass.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Anna Pritz from the Academy of Fine Arts. "The central idea of pausing, reflecting and linking ideas was vividly implemented.
The workshop showed me that exchange and conversation, especially with people from different disciplines, are essential to making more inclusive visions of the future tangible," says Diana Lettner, BSU press spokesperson and founder of schönhochzwei.at.
