Future Scenarios

  • Bridge 2040

    Bridge 2040

    Bridge 2040 is a card game in which children and senior citizens develop future narratives together, building a bridge between the generations. It is one of the two winning projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab 2023 internal ideas competition Ideas Expedition. Since its release at the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, it has been used not…

  • The Experts of the Future

    The Experts of the Future

    For its 25th anniversary, the young members who have been part of the Futurelab for less than 25 months had the goal to collect 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.…

  • Jobs of the future in an automated mobility environment

    Jobs of the future in an automated mobility environment

    What does our road traffic look like when automation becomes reality? How does a traffic policewoman work in a world where cars drive themselves? What does a driving instructor do when you no longer need a driver’s license?

  • SPARKS Hackathon: DIY Genome Analysis

    SPARKS Hackathon: DIY Genome Analysis

    How well do gene analysis technologies work at home? And what do they tell us about ourselves?

  • WKOÖ Innovation Lab: Digital Innovation in Construction

    WKOÖ Innovation Lab: Digital Innovation in Construction

    Technology, digitization and industry are changing the world around us. Developers, planners and executors in architecture, construction, engineering and manufacturing — they all contribute to these changes and turn visions into reality. But the possibilities offered by digital and new technologies also raise questions: How should companies position themselves? How do we want to work…

  • Losgröße 1 – Technisches Museum Wien

    Losgröße 1 – Technisches Museum Wien

    In November 2018 Technisches Museum Wien opened the exhibition “Arbeit & Produktion” as part of the series “weiter_gedacht_”. The series of events put current research and development at the centre of the 2018 programme and focused on how central features of society are affected by technologically driven change.

  • Aspern Skizzentisch

    Aspern Skizzentisch

    In the role of a scientific partner of the Technical Museum Vienna, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is advisory and realizes projects within the scope of an exhibition-series “Weiter_Gedacht_” (one step further). In the case of the first of three events between 2016 and 2021, the title “Die Zukunft der Stadt” (The urban future) called for…