Masterclass Series
Overview
In the light of the disruptions of the pivotal epoch we live in, there is an urgency for radical change. Change is now in reach of us all, thinkers and practitioners, engaged citizens of the mundane life, experts and non-experts.
The series comprises three in-depth masterclasses:
#1 – Vision & Sense Making
#2 – Kinship & Co-habitat
#3 – Fiction & Alternative Arenas
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The benefits
Our Masterclasses offer new patterns, wider imagination, non-linear time, fresh beliefs, and amplified awareness. ​Apply elements and tools from the EMBARKING FUTURE® meta-method >> to understand the needs of all stakeholders in a system and venture into the unknown. Future-proof yourself, a project or a company, sharpen networks, mitigate impact!
For whom?
For all who seek to uplift their potential to pioneer and foster change. It is especially suitable for urbanists, strategists, planners, executives, entrepreneurs, start-upers, coaches, educators, policy makers, researchers and those working in the creative and cultural industries.
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The faculty
Developed and directed by Madeleine Schwinge, delivered with re:future lab fellow artists and experts.
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The conditions
2 days I in person
Single tickets:
890 Euro + VAT (standard) I 790 Euro + VAT (early bird)
Package tickets:
Book all three masterclasses as a package & get a special bundle price
2.490 Euro + VAT (bundle standard) I 2290 Euro + VAT (bundle early bird)

#1 Vision & Sense Making
The power of ideas with wich we create new ideas.
Topics:
Imaginary – Ideation – Values and Ethics – Identity & Signature – Context & Environment – Serendipity – Mindscapes – Oscillation – Memories & Archives – The taste of Experimentation – Incubation – Objectives & Strategy
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Benefits:
With this masterclass you will experiment with rigorous phantasy, gain the ability to follow your dreams wherever they lead you. Through a practice of warming up the senses, you will boldly refine your „Why“ and get a more accurate logic. With an agile space of mind you will find how to break hypotheses and sketch appropriate blueprints for your future.
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May 4 - 5, 2023
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#2 Kinship & Co-Habitat
Blueprints for a culture of interrelated diversity.
Topics:
Assemblage & Clusters – Language & Semiotics – Symbiosis & Fertile Contamination – Membrane – Vibration – Empathy – Singularity & Perspectives – Vertical Communities – Impacts, Risks & Discontinuities – Transculturation & Inclusion – Inseparability & Co-Existence
Benefits:
In this Masterclass you will learn how to create beneficial relationships, decrypt the hidden motives in a sender's information, consider all aspects of stakeholders involved in a system, take the risk to share a creative process, invite cultural infection to fly over pitfalls – in order to create regenerative communities.
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June, 26-27, 2023
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#3 Fiction & Alternative Arenas
How do you navigate through the unknown to new shores?
Topics:
Iconic Turn – Metaphors – Scenarios – Framing – Narratives – Media – Anticipation – Rhizoms – Co-Design – Utopia & Heterotopia – World Theatre – Urban Metabolism – Symbiogenesis – Politics of Ecologies - Flux
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Benefits:
In this Masterclass you will dialogue with Futures. You will learn how to operate with a constant flux of ideas, resources and events as a vector of agility and risk mitigation, to innovate without replicate, to use images as methapor for new logic, to mobilize a purposeful structural and interactive narrative to invent viable systems – and finally, how to reach such a good place as Holitopia®, given its apparent illusiveness.
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July, 13-14, 2023
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