HOLITOPIA® Immersive Conferences to co-create Holistic Utopias
HOLITOPIA promotes interdisciplinary and cross-industry knowledge transfer and invites participants on a multifaceted journey into the future.
Experts and a broad public experience art exhibitions, conferences and interactive programmes together, linked by a shared vision: to anchor art and future design as a catalyst for socio-cultural transformation.
After the successful festival edition in September 2024, we are now taking some time to process all these precious encounters and valuable inputs and will continue to develop new ideas, projects, and formats for shaping wishful futures. Stay tuned!
Gaël Charbau, curator, artistic director, author
“The future is in the thinking of forms, in the ecology of forms. Artists are at the forefront of this process.”
HOLITOPIA 2024 Above the Sea of Air
Navigate future scenarios together with some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in art, science, future design and creative industries.
Everything is design – this expanded concept of design means that we can shape not only material objects but also processes and, consequently, the future. Against this backdrop, HOLITOPIA explores the potential of future design as a mindset and method for transforming visions of the future into tangible solutions, aiming to provide the public with access to future design as a tool for fostering positive societal change.
Witness future design and art coming together to turn visions into reality: futures you can see and touch!
September 20-22, 2024
HTW University of Applied Science
Campus Wilhelminenhof, Berlin (Germany)
Head of Curation: Madeleine Schwinge
Co-curation exhibition: Jan-Philipp Frühsorge
Moderation: Andrea Thilo
HOLITOPIA 2023 Symbiotic Politics
Thinking in cycles and systems
instead of cause-and-effect principles.
instead of cause-and-effect principles.
September 7–8, 2023
re:future lab, Berlin (Germany)
Curation: Madeleine Schwinge
Panels' Moderation: Kimberly Bradley
Performance: Ayumi Paul
The festival's theme opens up critical thinking, debates, dialogues and self-reflection on urban and biological speculations, digital governance, ethics and technology, zero-carbon societies, and queer ecologies. The narrative stream unfolds in two chapters:
What Can Art Do for Us?
How to expand our imaginations and create positive narratives amidst cultural shifts and unprecedented upheavals?
How to Unlock Futures
How to explore life at the edge of time? How to form reliable knowledge in the age of AI (human-machine co-habitat)? How to reconnect with nature and green our work, educational and civic spaces (human-nature hybridization, restorative design, new urban realities)?
