Mission

re:future lab is a transdisciplinary Zukunftslabor and a school for transformation at the interfaces between art, design, futures studies and psychology, with a focus on holistic futures.

Through exhibitions, education, consultancy and multidirectional interventions we create fertile ground for ideas, facilitate creative intelligence and foster alternative futures in the here and now.

We seek to equip a new generation of future shapers with the knowledge, tools, and methodologies to drive meaningful transformation in economics, institutions, and socioculture.

The re:future lab was founded in 2020 by German art researcher, curator, educator and consultant Madeleine Schwinge as an extension of her own studio practice and long-standing background in serial entrepreneurship and strategic consulting.

Originally conceived as a dialogical platform to question the role of art in social change, the re:future lab quickly developed into a think and do tank for art and future design, future design, delivering undisciplinary curatorial, educational, and innovative advisory formats.

Today, the re:future lab is an internationally networked cooperative of future trailblazers, under the aegis of founder Madeleine Schwinge, to conceive and deliver curatorial and educational programs.

Partners and clients of the re:future lab range from universities, cultural institutions, innovative businesses, strategic consultancies to individuals of engaged civil society. What they all have in common is their search for meaning and innovative orientation as we face a critical time of great uncertainty, complexity, increasing pressure and scarcity of resources.

This is precisely where the re:future lab comes in, making the realities of rapidly changing living conditions understandable, opening up new spaces for thought and possibility – and equipping people with the vital skills to sustainably shape relationships and new futures.