Creative Question Challenge

“Creating Questions for the Future.”

The Creative Question Challenge (CQC) is a new brainstorming format in which speakers explore and present creative questions in a 30-minute dialogue.

In the year 2020, the world is facing many challenges due to the virus called Covid-19 and the distortions caused by it. In the new, uncertain future of our everyday lives, there is the need for a space to discuss the essential questions for the future, rather than easy solutions to problems.

The CQC brings together two speakers from different disciplines and backgrounds, with a facilitator called Catalyst to create questions for the world to ponder within a 30-minute time limit. The CQC’s online platform doesn’t only provide a live experience of CQC’s taking place around the world, it also provides access to previous CQC’s. In addition, reactions to those CQC’s, or actions on the questions generated, are also visualized and encourage new participation.

The CQC is based on the Future Innovators Summit (FIS), which has been held at the Ars Electronica Festival since 2014. Both FIS and CQC were incubated in collaboration with the Japanese communication and design company Hakuhodo. Ars Electronica and Hakuhodo are working together to promote Art Thinking, through experiments such FIS and CQC.

Art Thinking
Art Thinking
Credit: Ars Electronica Futurelab

Timetable

10:30 am – 11:00 am
Creative Question Challenge: Embodied perception and life as movement EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Ecology – Technology EN
Art Thinking
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Can unheard signals inspire change? EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Autonomy – Democracy EN
Art Thinking, Highlights
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Creative Question Challenge: Between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Ars Electronica Futurelab Creative Question Challenge: Art – Governance EN
Futurelab, Highlights
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Ars Electronica Futurelab Creative Question Challenge: Future Ink EN
Futurelab
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Human being and “soft” technologies EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Creative Question Challenge: The Organ of Consciousness EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Radical change by working together EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, Highlights, studiotopia
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Examining organic and digital ecosystems EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Ars Electronica Futurelab Creative Question Challenge: Art  – Education EN
Futurelab, Highlights
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Quietly Subversive EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Ars Electronica Futurelab Creative Question Challenge: Art – Science – Innovation EN
Futurelab, Highlights
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Creative Question Challenge: Hybrid forms of being together EN
European Platform for Digital Humanism, studiotopia

Program

Creative Question Challenge: Between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion
Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch (NL/BY), Guillaume Schweicher (BE/LU), Florian Schreck (DE)

Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Creative Question Challenge: Human being and “soft” technologies
Christiaan Zwanikken (NL), DM Hoyt (US), Emmanuel Grimaud (FR)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions.

Creative Question Challenge: Examining organic and digital ecosystems
Hypercomf (GR), Markos Digenis (GR)

Will there be no poverty and zero hunger across the world in ten years? Is this planet to be populated in ten years by billions of healthy and educated humans? Is comfortability or autonomy more important to well-being? Can you be comfortably autonomus? These are the questions scientists were asked who applied to an open call to collaborate with artists in the STUDITOPIA residency program.

Creative Question Challenge: Hybrid forms of being together
3 137 (GR), Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (FR), Christos Carras (UK/GR)

Will there be no poverty and zero hunger across the world in ten years? Is this planet to be populated in ten years by billions of healthy and educated humans? Is comfortability or autonomy more important to well-being? Can you be comfortably autonomus? These are the questions scientists were asked who applied to an open call to collaborate with artists in the STUDITOPIA residency program.

Creative Question Challenge: The Organ of Consciousness
Oswaldo Maciá (CO/UK), Chris Bean (IE), Emilia Leszkowicz (PL)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Creative Question Challenge: Can unheard signals inspire change?
Siobhán McDonald (IE), Chris Bean (IE), Adriaan Eeckels (BE)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Creative Question Challenge: Autonomy – Democracy
Lauren Lee McCarthy (US), Paolo Cirio (IT), Kazuko Tanaka (JP)

The Creative Question Challenge (CQC) is a new brainstorming format in which speakers explore and present creative questions in a 30-minute dialogue.

Creative Question Challenge: Ecology – Technology
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK), Simon Weckert (DE), Kazune Iwasa (JP)

The Creative Question Challenge (CQC) is a new brainstorming format in which speakers explore and present creative questions in a 30-minute dialogue.

Creative Question Challenge: Radical change by working together
Kat Austen (UK/DE), Indrė Žliobaitė (FI), Laurence Gill (IE), Andrew Newman (AT/AU)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Creative Question Challenge: Embodied perception and life as movement
Alexandra Pirici (RO), Paco Calvo (ES), Corina Bucea (RO)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?

Creative Question Challenge: Quietly Subversive
Ciprian Mureșan (RO), Sanneke Stigter (NL), Corina Bucea (RO)

‘Let us finish what we started’. This is how the UN introduces its first Sustainable Development Goal – to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets have been described as a sprawling, misconceived mess of grandiose intentions. The title of the development agenda itself – ‘Transforming our World’ – oozes utopian ambition. It was adopted by 193 nations in 2015. Five years later and with ten years left, how do you think our world will transform?