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Utopiamobile

What does a desirable future look like? Die Junge Akademie invites you to indulge in utopian dreams.
Silbergraue Box mit pinkfarbenen Akzenten, oben eine durchsichtige Kuppel. Sie steht auf Kiesboden, im Hintergrund grüne Büsche.
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Blick in eine geräumige Box, am Boden in pinkfarbenes Kissen, an den Seiten pinkfarbene Flächen
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Blick in eine geräumige Box, am Boden in pinkfarbenes Kissen, an den Seiten pinkfarbene Flächen, oben eine durchsichtige Kuppel
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Tropen auf einer durchsichitgen Kuppel
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Durch eine durchsichtige Kuppe sieht man zwei liegende Personen.
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Durch zwei halbmondförmige Luken in einer silberfarbenen Fläche sieht man zwei Personen Kopf an Kopf liegen.
Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
A simple line drawing in two panels. Top panel: a long arm labeled “PAST” extends from the left, palm facing right, blocking a standing hooded figure in red and blue with a backpack. Dotted line leads down to bottom panel: a long arm labeled “FUTURE” extends from the right, its cupped hand gently holding the same seated figure.
Graphic Recording: Tiziana Beck

Introduction

The Utopiamobile is an oasis in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, a time machine, an opportunity for dialogue, a blank sheet of paper and a generator of ideas. Above all, however, it is an invitation to imagine the best possible future and to devise shared visions of the good life. This solid yet mobile space can accommodate two people. They can comfortably gaze at the sky and engage in conversation: about anything and everything, about random questions provided in the mobile, and about a desirable future.

Cartoon shows a red sedan perched on two long, thin human-like legs wearing blue high-heeled shoes. Curved dash lines beside the car suggest motion. A “P” parking sign stands to the left and a trail of small footprints leads off to the right.
Graphic Recording: Tiziana Beck

Background

In politics and science, dystopian scenarios and problems often guide our actions: How can we avoid the worst? What should be prevented at all costs? The Utopiamobile adds another perspective to this important one: How do we actually want to live? What does a world look like in which many things are good? What is desirable? What do we long for? In order to tackle the crises of the present, we also need shared utopias – visions of the future that motivate us to embark on transformations. The Utopiamobile offers space and opportunity to train our ‘future muscles’ and to engage with other, possibly unsettling visions of the future.

The Research Group Utopias has designed the Utopiamobile to be versatile – as a mobile place for reflection, scientific communication, discussion or debate. The mobile is a platform for discussing various questions and topics and bringing them to unusual places: after all, what distinguishes a mobile above all else is that it cannot be fixed in place, but remains in motion.

Utopieamobile on tour

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