Climate Change Center
“Gap_Mapping”
Initiated during the preparatory phase of the Einstein Center for Climate Change (eccc) in 2021, this model of scenario co-creation would allow different social actors to define their own trajectory towards a common future ecosystem, and explore their differences. One of the many fields in which co-design environments may be most attractive for research are those necessitating intense and complex collaborative dynamics between actors needing to work together without having the context, tools, supporting institutions or competences to do so. Based on sequential leaps and “milestones” to determine the steps forward as prefered by individual actors, this blueprint prototyped a larger engagement platform facilitating the expression of different points of view regarding implementation needs, and providing educational and networking nodes in their basic affordances. The project benefitted from supplementary funding from the Climate Change Center Berlin-Brandenburg ( 2022), and the collaboration of UX designers Daniel Murcia and Paul Stampka.
“Transforming with communication”
The Paris agreements (2015) set the stage for a grand societal transformation supposedly involving everyone in a common effort to deploy the SDGs democratically, - with sufficient public support to be experienced and carried out “by and for the people”. On which knowledge basis can such a public participation be built? What is the role of public institutions in the diffusion of what could be called “transformation literacy”, - and what kind of public engagement strategies should be imagined in museums, for instance, to involve multigenerational publics in the productive navigation of uncertain futures? Our research team explored the potential of co-design strategies to increase the participants´ awareness of their systemic agency and the realisation of their civic potential to initiate and conduct local transformative projects. Co-design workshops were developed in collaboration with the Kulturelle Bildung team at Haus Bastian ( H.Kropf, M.Demmler, P.Sollmann) and the Futurium ( H.Humml). The UdK research team comprised Prof. T.Ingen-Housz, P.Perrin de Brichambaut and Mareile Klose.