The re:future lab is an artistic future institute at the intersection of art, social design, future foresight, and systemic psychology, with a focus on holistic futures.

Through a multidimensional program that embraces exhibitions, conferences, publications, education, and consulting the re:future lab equips a new generation of future shapers with cross-disciplinary knowledge, tools, and methods to foster futures literacy in economic, institutional, and sociocultural spheres.

Art, as a medium that opens up new realms of experience and creates desirable visions of the future, clearly plays a central role in this.

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Highlights from our archive in flux

Exhibition

What if the Ocean Were a City?

Design researcher and diver Rasa Weber

will transform the re:future lab into an immersive aquatic habitat for encounters, experiences, and reflections on shared ecological futures.

Intervention

What if the Ocean Were a City

A multiperspective program to aquatic and urban futures

Meet designer, scientists, economists and futurists to co-imagining blue-green futures...

Exhibition

Above the Sea of Air

Group show framing HOLITOPIA 2024

10 contemporary art positions together with 4 design and architecture research projects explore how to navigate change, when all parameters are in a state of turbulence and our own location is sometimes unknown?

Conference

HOLITOPIA 2024

Above The Sea of Air

Witness future design and art coming together to turn visions into reality: futures you can see and touch! Navigate future scenarios together with some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in future design and creative industries. Find out more: www.holitopia-festival.com

Lecture

The Incredible Algorithmaticity of Being

Prof. Dr. Joanna Bryson

What then divides us from machines? Can machines have a place in the human social order?

Conversation

"We rely on artists to create compelling visions of the future"

Interview with Anicka Yi

Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea) is an American-Korean conceptual artist known for her experiments with olfaction and unorthodox organic and perishable materials.

Exhibition

Hortulanus

Johanna Seelemann

The conceptual designer shows collectible pieces of compostable furniture. Made from low-tech materials and using low-embodied energy resources to re-envision our relationship with nature.

Conversation

"Before we can create things, we need to imagine them"

Interview with Sigurd Larsen

Prof. Sigurd Larsen is a Berlin based Danish architect working within the fields of architecture and furniture design.

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Media

Futures you can see and touch

Form & Funktion Podcast with Madeleine Schwinge

Madeleine Schwinge talks about the curatorial framework of the HOLITOPIA 24 edition: A festival spanning an exhibition, a conference, a workshop program and public days to explore ideas of tomorrow through the lens of ultra contemporary art and experimental design, and navigate future scenarios together with some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in future design and creative industries.

Media

Monopol Podcast Fantasiemuskel

Art as a Catalyst–Madeleine Schwinge in conversation with Friedrich von Borries and Torsten Fremer (in German)

"To change the future it requires a mind that can think in many directions, and Madeleine Schwinge is such a thought leader“ (Monopol)

Gesine Borcherdt, WELT am Sonntag

"Contemporary artists have never worked so closely on themes that will deeply determine the times ahead—thus an artistic Zukunftsinstitut is exceedingly topical"