“We capture how people are feeling in real time”

The interdisciplinary project “Your Emotional City” aims to understand how urban environments affect our emotions, behaviour and mental health. Using an app, researchers such as Dr Shadi...

INSPIRATIONS FOR A “RESOURCE-LIGHT” FUTURE

ON SUSHI, ORANGE PEEL AND SELF-HEALING CONCRETE

If we humans wish to avert the climate and biodiversity crisis and live within our planet’s ecological limits, we need to use raw materials more sustainably. This requirement sounds simple, but...

Ideas from the weißensee academy of art berlin

New Clothing Fit for the Future

Buy – wear – discard. All too often, this is the fate of many products of our time. Textiles, especially, in this regard, have a huge impact on the climate and the environment. Students in the...

“In Africa, an EU Chicken is Cheaper than a Local Chicken”

Since the mid-20th century, the colonial era in Africa has for the most part been considered as over. However, forms of political or economic control by European and Western states are still...

The Fairy of the Mines: The Making of Lady AYA

A very special treasure now adorns the Futurium exhibition: a prototype of the Lady AYA brooch of the Association of Women in Mining in Africa (AWIMA). The brooch is a vision of how jewellery could...

Five Things You Need to Know About Mica

Mica is a mineral that’s used in many different products. If you look closely, you can find it in cars, mobile phones, computers and cosmetics, among other things. You’ve probably also come...