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It's all about ideas

Showcase

Discover fresh ideas for the future in the Showcase, our interactive exhibition space in the Futurium Lab.

Photo: David von Becker

Key visual Future Fields: The glass Futurium with plants in a field, Berlin in the background

Fields of the future – new ideas for farming

Our thematic focus “Farming and Using the Land” in the Lab

How can we improve farming and using our land? New strategies and solutions are presented in the lab. A comprehensive understanding of the topic opens up paths to a more sustainable future. By researching, experimenting and asking questions together, we can explore where these paths will lead us. So let's set off on our journey!

There is a different person behind every idea. The works were developed for the Futurium Lab by "future makers", a range of scientists, designers and artists, all with a focus on the future. They come from totally different fields.

You can touch and try out many of the pieces on display. We will develop individual exhibits as part of the Open Lab. Come by and join in!

You don't have to be an engineer or computer expert to shape the future. Artists, craftspeople or philosophers are just as important.
David Weigend, Head of Education and Participation at Futurium

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Exploring and Shaping Land Use

Future Landscape Simulator

What is a piece of land – merely a surface, a resource, or a living environment? In the „Future Landscape Simulator” land becomes a space for decision-making: What should take priority – food produ...

A woman sits on a small tractor, in front of her a screen showing a simulation of a field.

Sowing and Understanding Perspectives

Double Harvest

What might agriculture look like that simultaneously produces food, preserves biodiversity, and protects the climate? The exhibit invites you to explore a range of virtual landscapes, showing what ...

Let Your Futures Take Root

Shared Grounds

The way we treat soil today will shape the future of our climate, biodiversity, food security, and global justice. “Shared Grounds” is an evolving installation, which continuously changes with your...

A wheat sheaf as a combination of colour-calibrated RGB image and depth images

Technology in Plant Research

Invisible – Visible

When we look at a plant, much remains hidden for us? How does it grow beneath the soil’s surface? Digital technologies can help us better understand the interactions between plants, soil, and the e...

And here are the exhibits from the previous thematic foci!

Thematic focus Raw Materials

Circulating materials

Hidden Treasures

Contemporary society has a pervasive and insatiable desire for resources. The extraction of these materials, however, has the potential to cause significant harm to humans and the surrounding envir...

Spaces of possibility between art and research

Multipolar

As part of an artistic research project the Berlin based studio ATELIER-E explored which influence the arrangement of a molecule has on the properties of a material. Their investigation led to the ...

Create a Circular Smartphone Economy

RRRRR

The game "RRRRRR" from IMAGINARY takes us on a journey through the circular economy. The central idea revolves around the valuable materials found in smartphones, including gold, silver, copper, li...

What if…?

The Outside Inside

When is ‘nature’ no longer ‘natural’? How can design assist in reframing the human as not separate from or above nature, but as part of it? At what point does biology become technology? Designer an...

Thematic focus Democracy

Hilf der Stadt, eine gute Entscheidung zu treffen!

Citizen Quest

In dem Exponat “Citizen Quest” haben Spieler*innen die Aufgabe, demokratische Entscheidungsprozesse in einer virtuellen Stadt voranzubringen. Verschiedene Geschichten definieren das Spielsetting. S...

A hand points to a map with many colorful, labeled bars.

How data can strengthen our interactions

Data Correlations

How can we use data to improve democracy? That is what the installation "Data Correlations" by Studio Brüll aims to ...

A woman stands in front of a screen and presses a button with her hand.

How can we influence opinions?

Opinionator

Have you already liked a YouTube video, shared a post on Instagram, or left a comment on TikTok today? What kind of posts grab your attention? Which channels do you spend most of your time on? A...

A person is standing in a polling booth, the curtain is half drawn.

Say Cheese!

Smile to Vote

There’s an election coming up! Let’s head to the nearest polling station. Step into the voting booth, a quick smile, and we’re done… At least according to

Thematic focus Mobility

A person looks at a graphic that is beamed onto a wall

Spielerische Prototypen für die Stadt der Zukunft

Fantastic Mobility

Wie könnte Mobilität in der Stadt der Zukunft aussehen? Mit welchen Fahrzeugen könnten wir uns fortbewegen? Mit der Installation Fantastic Mobility von

A person looks at colourful elements arranged on a luminous table in front of him. In the background are colourful graphics

Von der Zukunft lernen

Future Mobility Simulator

Für die Mobilität der Zukunft gibt es viele Ideen, doch manche Idee erzeugt neue Probleme. Deshalb nutzen Wissenschaftler*innen und Stadtplaner*innen Simulationen, um ihre Ideen zu testen, bevor si...

Mit urbanen Interventionen Mobilität neu entdecken

Fahrende Mobilitätswerkstatt

Das Kunstkollektiv N55 und der Designer Till Wolfer wollen unseren Blick auf urbane Mobilität revolutionieren. Ihre Aktionen und Erfindungen zeigen, wie man mit ei...

A cylindrical house made up of many small elements in the Futurium Lab

Living on the move

Hybrid Catalogue House

Why should we only live in one place? The design collective Refunc has developed a future vision of short-term settlement ...

Citizen science for a bike-friendly city

SensorBikes

Sustainable, compact and healthy, bikes are a crucial means of urban transportation. For many people, they’re the future of urban travel itself. But cobblestones, narrow bike lanes, heavy motor tra...

The Futurium Lab

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Join in!

Futurium Lab

Experiment, test and invent – Everyone can get involved in the Futurium Lab.

Develop your own prototypes, or see how a 3D printer works in the Fab Lab area. Visitors can join Hackathon teams...

The Workshop in the Lab

A space for shaping the future

The workshop in the Futurium Lab is an open learning space for visitors of all ages, inviting them to explore future technologies and topics. The workshop is divided into two spaces: the machine ro...