education
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Welcome to Planet B
Playable Climate Futures in Deep Space 8K
E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? The climate crisis challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Important decisions await, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be helpful to test our choices in virtual reality to…
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Re-imagining the mobility of the future
Experience Lab for Open Dialogue
Re-imagining the mobility of the future is a collaborative project encouraging open discussions about what future mobility could mean. Presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022, it encouraged visitors to share their views on future technology and ideas for their ideal mode of transportation.
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Future Mobility Lounge
Discovering Fresh Ideas with Robot Spot
The talk and workshop event Future Mobility Lounge in Yokohama, Japan, focused on future mobility and sustainability. Visitors from elementary school children to adults were invited to find inspiration with artistic and cultural input and conceptualize new mobility ideas involving Robot Spot.
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Welcome to Planet B
A Children’s Pop-Up Book About Climate Change
The Futurelab application Welcome to Planet B brings climate decisions to Deep Space 8K. To translate the project to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds, a team at the lab created a matching interactive pop-up book. It is designed to get kids excited about climate protection and to marvel, grasp and understand – and,…
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Artistic Journalism 2022
Online Course on Literacy for the Futures
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Keio University SFC have jointly established an online lecture named “Artistic Journalism” as a literacy for the futures, starting in 2020. Futurelab’s Artistic Director Hideaki Ogawa was invited to teach the experimental class from the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
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Northeastern University 2022
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
In July 2022, students from Northeastern University (Boston, USA) joined the Futurelab for the second time for a three-day interactive art workshop. It focused on creating experiences for the Ars Electronica media facade – the glowing, colorful centerpiece of the city and second skin of the Ars Electronica Center.
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Mission KI
Hands-On Exhibits on Artificial Intelligence
In collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the Deutsches Museum in Bonn has reinvented itself to become a central platform for the future topic of artificial intelligence: in two themed experience rooms, visitors to the Mission KI (Mission AI) exhibition can now explore the key technology of the 21st century.
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JKU medSPACE
Pioneering Venue for Anatomy Lectures
The JKU medSPACE is a completely new, worldwide unique venue for teaching anatomy, located at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Developed and implemented by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the JKU medSPACE shows anatomy like never before, in quadruple stereoscopic 3D 8K projection at 14×7 meters: Lecturers and students dive into larger than life, photorealistic…
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NHM Deck 50
Science Communication in the Museum
Deck 50 at Vienna’s Natural History Museum is a participatory platform for science communication. Here, visitors can actively explore different environmental and socially relevant topics with hands-on experiments – becoming “Citizen Scientists” in the process.
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Actions for Deep Issues
Collective Dialogue on Global Challenges
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Ars Electronica Futurelab curated a special Futurelab Day at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021. The starting point was a collective dialogue on “Actions for Deep Issues” – in other words, how we can take action in the face of multiple global challenges.
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Artistic Journalism 2021
Online Course on Social Dialogue
In 2021, Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Artistic Director Hideaki Ogawa taught an online course at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) on “Artistic Journalism”: the act of creating a social dialogue through artistic expression, research, exploration, and action.
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The Experts of the Future
Future Narrative Workshop for Kids
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.