Situation Room - Collecting Memories of the Not-Yet

In the organizer's words:

Our future is in danger and it often feels like it is already too late to stand up for anything. What's more, looking at our crisis-ridden world, it's pretty clear that the present is riddled with human failure. While it is often repeated, even in resistant spaces, that everything will never be good for everyone, current political developments, particularly the rise of right-wing extremism and authoritarianism, reveal that everything can stay bad and even get worse.

In light of this emergency, the "Situation Room" is convened by curator and language artist Muhammet Ali Baş on behalf of the "Not-Yet Lab". The Situation Room is a performative gathering of artists, visionaries and visitors who use speculative science fiction and the memory booster "Mentha Memoralis" to remember other futures that have not yet happened, but can be remembered as if they had already happened. This creates collective memories that, as narratives of overcoming crises, show current possibilities for action and give hope for a caring and just future.

The event is part of the heimaten festival.

The heimaten network is an initiative of Haus der Kulturen der Welt within the framework of heimaten, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.