Madeleine
Schwinge

Madeleine Schwinge is a multidisciplinary art and future researcher with more than two decades of experience in creative entrepreneurship and transformation design.

With a passion for art, philosophy and systemic thinking, she dissects the upheavals of our time with regard to their impact on the human psyche and existence.

Her work sits at the intersection of creativity, human insight and strategy, promoting curiosity, empathy and interplay to foster transformation in complex contemporary landscapes. Her activities span artistic practice, exhibiting, dialogue, writing, advisory, and speaking.

Madeleine Schwinge urges a paradigm shift: Her approach is rooted in the conviction that human creativity is essential to navigate transformative change—by asking deeper questions, fostering imagination, and blending critical thinking with visionary perspectives. To this end, she has devised HOLITOPIA®—both a manifesto and a framework for shaping immediate futures through artistic intelligence.

Her pioneering curatorial work conceiving the ‚HOLITOPIA Festival for Arts & Futures’ was honored with the Prize for Innovation and International Recognition by the Berlin Senate’s “Projekt Zukunft” initiative.

She lectures ‚Creative Intelligence‘ at the HTW University of Applied Sciences in Berlin in the master's program in Systemic Design. She is engaged with the WFSF World Future Studies Federation (a UNESCO Partner) and the Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung Deutschland. She served the Ogilvy Futuring Science and Ethics Advisory Board in 2022-2023, and was appointed a founding member of Berlin Design e.V. in 2023. From 2009 to 2018, she has served as a strategic and creative consultant to historian and transformation researcher Dr. Petra Bock, then as a teaching coach at the latter's academy (Dr. Bock Institute) from 2021 to 2023.

She holds a diploma in economics (DHBW University Stuttgart) and is a certified systemic coach. She pursued further studies in art history (Free University Berlin) and obtained certificates in curation and fine arts (Berlin University of the Arts).