Dystopie/Utopie-Abend - Innovative Citizen Festival 2024

In the organizer's words:

New methods, materials and technologies have always changed our environment and our lives. Almost all new developments have both advantages and disadvantages. Depending on how we use them and talk about them, they can give us hope or scare us. We have invited three scientists from very different fields to present their personal dystopias. Get ready for (entertaining) worst-case scenarios. But of course we don't want to stop there. Together and with AI support, we want to develop positive narratives and motivating utopias from these dystopias in order to start the weekend full of hope.
Drinks and snacks will be provided.

Jürgen Bertling...
...used to be a chemical engineer, that was a long time ago. Today he is a utopian and a realist, an analyst and an anarchist, a family man and a workaholic, a sceptic of progress and yet an inventor. Is that possible? Hardly! But he tries again and again.

Plastic dystopias
The sea is one big plastic soup, strangled turtles, kingfishers whose stomachs are stuffed with plastic and microplastics in their own poo - this is the dominant material dystopia of our time. What is the future of this global constipation? Does it even exist? And what if everything were different, if the world consisted solely of degradable paper, shiny metal and translucent glass instead of plastic? Would that be the utopia we want or a dystopia? Let's discuss it.

Price information:

The talk is free of charge. Please register for the evening by e-mail: innovative-citizen@fraunhofer.de