Review from the future

Under the direction of Klaus Kofler and Holger Bramsiepe from the Future Design Academy, seven students from the part-time master's program in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship learned the mindset, methodology and processes of future design in a collaborative and creative form of cooperation, reflected on them and applied them to four future topics.

The topics were "the future of currency", "the future of tourism", "the future of education" and "the future of events". Each topic in itself is complex and had to be rethought again and again, especially under the impact of a complex and continuously changing world. In the process, the students approached their future topics through four major blocks that map the future mindset of the future designer.

The first step was to bring the topic of the future into the center of thinking in order to be able to imagine and discuss the future at all. The tools used to "edit and design" the future then formed the focus of the second part. The third block focused on responsible thinking and acting in terms of shaping the future. The conclusion was the processual planning of the future in so-called horizons. The emotional futurestories developed up to that point were broken down into project steps and transferred into a cycle of continuous improvement and rethinking.

The future mindset and the general approach of shaping the future in a kind of "reverse engineering" describes a new way of looking at the "material future". The feedback from the students has strengthened Dean of Studies Professor Dr. Frank Ermark and the speakers to continue offering the elective Future Design.