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Stories From Mobility Futures: Berlin
Takeaways

Takeaways

  • In a 180min remote workshop, attendees co-create mobility-centered science-fictions for the Berlin metropolitan region of the year 2035.
  • Participants experience cutting-edge automation technology in a creative foresight format.
  • Hands-on – participants learn about and apply scenario thinking.
  • Along the way, participants discuss topics such as regional specificities and livability in the context of mobility, whilst encountering design aspects including sustainability, algorithmic bias, as well as the societal impact of automation.
  • In small, moderated groups, participants, together with team members from diconium, will co-create one possible future mobility scenario for Berlin's city centre, a suburb and the conurbation area.
  • Each scenario can be used as an entry point to create individual or joint strategic visions and agendas.

Registration

Please visit the workshop website at https://diconium.com/en/news/workshop-mobility-futures to register for the workshop. 

Kurzbeschreibung

Will your hero's region fall, or rise? It’s in your hands. There are many possible futures of mobility, and we are to co-create the best ones in the mean time. Join our collaborative Online workshop that combines AI & Storytelling, to co-invent inspiring mobility Science-Fictions for the Berlin region of the year 2035. Feat. Keynote by Julia Holze.

Beschreibung

With our virtual roadshow series titled "Stories from Mobility Futures", together with the general public, our team at diconium seeks to comparatively investigate and co-invent the linkage and possible future development of mobility and quality of life in various metropolitan regions in Germany, including Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart – and the Berlin region, our destination at re:publica 2021.

  • In our 120min English-language Online workshop (registration URL in the below), our team facilitates for participants to co-develop a science fiction story—an evidence-backed, but entertaining narrative, for the specified region of the year 2035. This way, we seek to make the oftentimes complex discourse around urban and regional mobility more accessible and democratic.
  • To help build these Berlin-based stories and inspire participants, Women in Mobility Co-Founder Julia Holze will deliver a brief keynote talk, sharing insights into current and future mobility in the metropolitan region, and pondering about Berlin's and the region's mobile livability in the year 2035.
  • Participants then use AI-generated scenarios – we call them "oracles" – and demographic data to co-create their story; the main focus of their respective contribution is the development of a product/narrative that meets the needs of the future inhabitants of a region under study, told from the perspective of personas typical of the region. 
  • In addition, various trends in mobility, such as sustainability & urbanisation, are to be incorporated into the stories. By way of jointly evaluating the stories, a holistic picture of urban and mobility development can be identified afterwards and strategic measures can be derived to generate desirable scenarios or to avoid less desirable ones.
  • In toto, our workshop blends methods from strategic management, participatory design, resilience thinking and design fiction in a unique way, and lets participants actively experience this type of disciplinary convergence.