Ecological Futures addresses the ecological and social challenges posed by the climate crisis and societal changes.
The project brings together urban practitioners, artists, cultural actors, residents, civil society groups, Goethe-Institutes, and their partners to tackle concrete problems, explore practical solutions, and develop strategies for a socioecological future. Insights from these collaborations are documented in an ever-growing toolkit that serves as both an archive of knowledge and a practical resource for application in other contexts. This takes place through workshops, presentations, residency programs, and hands-on work on the creation, transformation, and long-term consolidation of artistic, activist, and cultural spaces. The project is in its early stages and will evolve over time through its worldwide implementation, shaped by on-site work and the local initiatives involved.
As an integral component of the project, participants, together with the project team of Ecological Futures, the Goethe-Institute, and the editorial team of ARCH+, articulate a selection of tools that describe their practice, making it accessible to others. The texts and their representative symbols are developed on the basis of interviews or questionnaires. The Goethe-Institute will make these symbols and texts publicly accessible as part of the project, either through posters, a website, social media, or as part of presentations, workshops, or exhibitions. Ecological Futures aims to create a long-term, transdisciplinary knowledge network of practitioners around the world.
Petra Roggel, Eva Schmitt
Christian Hiller, Daniel Kuhnert, Zita Leutgeb, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo
Collective Works_NL (Peter Zuiderwijk, Karin Mientjes)
Spreepark Artspace (Katja Aßmann, Temitayo Oni)
Goethe-Institute Ankara,
Goethe-Institute Armenia,
Goethe-Institute Barcelona,
Goethe-Institute Colombia,
Goethe-Institute Jordan,
Goethe-Institute Kenya,
Goethe-Institute North Macedonia,
Goethe-Institute Portugal,
Goethe-Institute Rio de Janeiro,
Goethe-Institute Rome,
Goethe-Institute Serbia,
Goethe-Institute Vietnam,
among others
