TREASURES OF THE FUTURE – Opening Party

Keep an eye out in the exhibition and lab: At three locations you will find the new installations on the treasures of the future: raw material.

Venue: Exhibition, Lab

Looking for gold in the mine shaft. Using VR glasses, enter the digital version of a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scanned to scale with a modern cell phone. By the way: Gold is built into all cell phones because it has excellent electrical conductivity. But mining gold is often very dangerous and the pay is miserable. More about the “Kamituga Digital Gold” project: www.digital-gold.ch.

Venue: Exhibition | Language: English, German | Event format: Virtual reality show

The artists from “Selbstgebaute Musik” will build instruments at three stands: canned guitars with elements from Steinway, sonic rattles and ballon trumpets whose sounds are reminiscent of the saxophone with a little skill.

Venue: Forecourt | Language: English, German | Age: 6+ | Event format: Drop-In Workshop

You find yourself in an exciting crime thriller! Disguised as ordinary visitors, you wander through the exhibition and help a scientist solve a mysterious case. An interactive escape rally through our raw material worlds.

Starting point: Foyer | Language: English, German | Age: 16+ | Event format: Escape Rally | Registration required, you find all details here

Follow in the footsteps of the improvisers! We are building our own circular economy. Immerse yourself in the stories of the actors and solve tricky tasks relating to sustainability and resources.

Venue: Foyer, forecourt | Language: English, German | Age: 6+ | Event format: Rally

In our exhibition visitors can discover exciting options for the future: Develop your own attitude towards controversial topics in the three thinking spaces Human, Nature and Technology. The tour also gives an insight to our new topic of raw materials.

Start: Foyer | Language: English | Age: 16+ | Event format: Guided tour

You find yourself in an exciting crime thriller! Disguised as ordinary visitors, you wander through the exhibition and help a scientist solve a mysterious case. An interactive escape rally through our raw material worlds.

Starting point: Foyer | Language: English, German | Age: 16+ | Event format: Escape Rally | Registration required, you find all details here

The talk will explore what kind of political bargains are needed to reimagine the future of global resource extraction – and how to envision a future with less dependence on the exploitation of natural resources. Within the context of futurism, the talk will also highlight implications of such bargains for critical minerals, Green New Deals, and just/sustainable energy transitions. A joint event with the Futurium partner Leibniz Association.

With Prof. Dr. Nathan Andrews, Associate Professor in Political Science at McMaster University and incoming Visiting Research Fellow at GIGA

Moderated by Raphaela Hobbach, Research Associate Strategy and Content at Futurium.

Venue: Lab | Language: English | Event format: Talk

For this workshop, the construction workers from the artists group “Selbstgebaute Musik” tore apart entire bicycles. The bicycle frame tubes of different lengths become instruments with harmonious sounds in different pitches.

Venue: Forecourt | Language: English, German | Age: 12+ | On-side registration required

A joint event with the Futurium partner Max Planck Society

With Ubaid Manzoor and Laura Gabriela Torres Mejia, Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Host: Dr Karena Kalmbach, Head of Strategy and Content at Futurium

Venue: Exhibition | Language: English

For this workshop, the construction workers from the artists group “Selbstgebaute Musik” tore apart entire bicycles. The bicycle frame tubes of different lengths become instruments with harmonious sounds in different pitches.

Venue: Forecourt | Language: English, German | Age: 12+ | On-side registration required

You find yourself in an exciting crime thriller! Disguised as ordinary visitors, you wander through the exhibition and help a scientist solve a mysterious case. An interactive escape rally through our raw material worlds.

Starting point: Foyer | Language: English, German | Age: 16+ | Event format: Escape Rally | Registration required, you find all details here

Starting from the strained planetary boundaries, Futurium asks what sustainable and socially just raw material futures could look like and what decisions are needed in the here and now.

With Zenzi Awases, Geologist and Vice President of the Association of Women in Mining in Africa (AWIMA), Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Economist and President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Tom Hegen, winner of the International Photography Award, Robert Klauer, VAUDE, Dr Marianne Kuhlmann, Co-Founder and Lead of „Circularity“

Venue: Forum | Language: English, German, German sign language | Event format: Talk | Registration required, you find all details here

For this workshop, the construction workers from the artists group “Selbstgebaute Musik” tore apart entire bicycles. The bicycle frame tubes of different lengths become instruments with harmonious sounds in different pitches.

Venue: Forecourt | Language: English, German | Age: 12+ | On-side registration required

Relax and listen to the sound worlds of the artists from “Selbstgebaute Musik” under the evening sky.

Venue: Forecourt

To the DJ's live set from "Selbstgebaute Musik" and with the support of the improvisers, orchestral groups of can guitars, rattles and balloon trumpets play to electronic sounds.

Venue: Forecourt | Age: 6+ | Event format: Music