We can never be sure what the future will bring, but one thing is certain: there will be a future festival... So please save the date for HOLITOPIA FESTIVAL FOR ARTS & FUTURES, coming to Berlin September 20-22, 2024! To stay tuned on the program, sign up to our newsletter via www.holitopia-festival.com - and makre sure you safe your tickets!

„The re:future Lab sets out to change the future. This requires a mind that can think in many directions, and Madeleine Schwinge is just such a mastermind. Having grown up in an entrepreneurial family, yet equipped with a strong passion for art, she oscillates between quite different worlds in her role as an artist, curator and systems consultant“ (Monopol)

Creative Intelligence, a model to worldbuilding - the five principles to navigate systemic transformation. A workshop for System Design Master Students at HTW University of Applied Science, Berlin.

Solimán López (b 1981, Burgos, Spain) is a multi-awarded conceptual and technology artist.

Architect literally means “master” (arkhi) “builder” (tekton). In highly turbulent and unstable contexts, architects can no longer ignore the environment.

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

How can art exist in a synergistic feedback loop with science, to achieve the need for inclusive, transparent and experiential scientific promotion?

Interdisciplinary at its core, System Design seeks to create desirable and sustainable changes in behavior and form.

There is great value of greening urban landscapes. The benefits to work, education, retail and civic spaces can be experienced by both people and business.

"Even if humans become to machines what domestic animals are to humans, they will still live."

Ludwig Engel is HouseEurope! Team Strategist and Organiser, part of s+ (station.plus, Department for Architecture, ETH Zurich). HouseEurope! is a European Citizens' Initiative—ECI’s legislative proposal committed to achieve the social-ecological transformation of the existing building stock through preservation, adaptation, renovation, and transformation.

By 2030 zero-carbon solutions could be competitive in sectors accounting for over 70% of global emissions (United Nations).

The symposium brings together sought-after artists and experts from a wide range of fields and disciplines, particularly architects, designers, scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers and anthropologists.

Founder of re:future lab, Madeleine Schwinge, urges us to install a multifaceted alliance between art (image), design (form) and architecture (space), forming a united frame to dialog with humanities, natural sciences, and technology.

Art in the 21st century is more than ever a social practice—and a call to act!

"All Eyes Hear" is grounded in the artist's expanding archive of rituals, tools, and practices of wholing. The shared practice engages participants to explore the fractal dimension of our realities and the non-linearity of time.

Grégory Chatonsky (b. 1971, Paris) is a French and Canadian Artist who works with interactive installations, networked devices, photographs and sculptures. He explores the relationship between technologies and affectivity creating new forms of fiction.

The design innovation team of a leading automotive group approached the re:future lab to brainstorm new ideas for building the car of tomorrow, and more broadly to think about the future of mobility.

Shaken by polycrises, we find ourselves in the midst of a tremendous transformation process. Is there any hope, how to build alternative pathways?

Parsons & Charlesworth is a design studio founded in 2014 by Chicago-based British team Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth.

Predicting the future is a tough act, but organizations can adopt a posture that ensures they're ready for whatever it may bring.

How can we stay the ‘hopeful troubled’ for better futures? Shall we pursue less ‘noise’, less disturbance, more stability? Or shall we explore, learn, and practice the multiple—often contradictory—dynamics of systems?

The Fragile Human refers to the upheavals of the present and to our uncertain, hazardous and trembling existence. How to stay ‚hopeful troubled’ and to envisage sustainable ways to navigate towards better futures?

HORTULANUS pieces are compostable furniture from low-tech materials. They use low-embodied energy resources (corn ears, straw and loam) to re-envision our relationship with nature.

Elena Schütz co-founded “Something Fantastic” in 2010–a Manifesto, a practice and an office committed to smart, simple, touching architecture, with the idea to work on transdisciplinary, using design on all scales and in various media.

"Every human activity takes place in an environment of things and people; in it, it is localised and without it, it would lose all meaning." How does history come into shape? What lessons have we learnt? What do we believe in? Where do we come from and where are we going?

"Cooking thus transforms us", is a framework Maya Minder weaves like a strings through her work.

Prof. Stella Geppert (b. 1967 in Gustedt, Germany) is a sculptor and performing artist.

Vadim Otto Ursus is a Berlin-based prominent young chef.

An exhibition inspired by Futurist and Head of Technical Development at Google, Ray Kurzweil who predicted that 2045 marks the tipping point at which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence (Singularity), and the counterculture magazine "The Whole Earth Catalog" seen by Steve Jobs as an analog precursor of Google-like search engines.

The theme of the 24th World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) World Conference reflects the vast dimensions and dynamics of futures studies, and describes an arena in which to explore the breadth of our imagination.

Jutta Werner (b. 1969, Germany) draws inspiration from the global market and stands for straightforward, elegant, international design.

TOWARDS SOUND is an archive of sketches, drawings, visual notations on music, founded by composer Ruth Wiesenfeld in 2020.

Madeleine Schwinge expands the terms proposed by Wolfgang Streek—long-time director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne—for the compensatory mechanisms of modern industrial societies "coping", "doping", "hoping", "shopping" by the imperative of "transforming".

Nina Horstmann is coordinator of the Hybrid Platform, a cross-disciplinary platform by Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin and Technische Universität (TU) Berlin that serves the exchange between art, science and technology.

An experimental live performance exploring the ways to inhabit space and connect with others from a distance during Covid-19 lockdown. "Carte Blanche" to four artists performing simultaneously.

In a time of great uncertainty and upheavals—now that the future seems to have happened in its most subtle and dystopian form—what can we learn from the past, what can we save, how can we make the future meaningful and worth living in?

A group exhibition with some of Madeleine Schwinge's most inspiring thinkers and artists. From Beuys to Valérie Favre, Marlène Dumas and Claire Tabouret.

Paula Doepfner (b. 1980, Berlin, Germany) is a contemporary artist.

Emma Scribe is Head of Major Investors at Team for the Planet.

Gilles Assor (b. 1975) is a high-level entrepreneur and sought-after expert in the fashion industry, where he has held leading positions (Jean-Paul Gauthier, Margiela, Repetto). Creative and passionate about contemporary art, Gilles Assor introduced the iconic Repetto ballerina to the MOMA permanent collection. After the first Covid crisis, he switched career paths and launched 1.1.100, a crisis management consultancy start-up aimed at providing expertise to fashion industry executives.