For its 25th anniversary, a Futurelab team collected opinions from internationally renowned futurologists to collaboratively speculate about possible future narratives in the next 25 years. Their journey to the future even ventured outside of our hemisphere to undiscovered planets. What was special about the experts for the future? On average, they were seven years old.
The Experts of the Future – part of the lab’s 25-year celebrations – was conducted by young members who had been part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab for less than 25 month. They organized a prototype workshop with the team members’ own kids and guided them into the future in a three-step journey. As a group, they explored cultural diversity, future mobility, and even sent messages and wishes to inhabitants from outer space.
After the workshop, an international outreach to Ars Electronica partner gardens followed, to collect statements from young experts all over the world – coming up with a collaborative compass of future narratives. You can find some of these statements here on the website of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
Read more about the The Experts of the Future workshop on the Ars Electronica Blog.
Credits
Concept & Development: Denise Hirtenfelder, Barbara Habringer, Sonja Bailer
Camera & Editing: Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe, Kerstin Blätterbinder
Documentation: Birgit Cakir
Special thanks to our experts: Aurelia, Raphael, Egon, Xaver, Neema, Samuel, Lore-Su, Moe, Leonhart & Ben!
Special thanks to contributions from: Horst Hörtner, Hideaki Ogawa, Christoph Kremer, Christl Baur, Martin Honzik, Susanne Kiesenhofer, Arno Deutschbauer, Georgios Tsampounaris, Julian Zauner, Johannes Lugstein, Maria Mayr, as well as all Futurelab parents!