What kind of humans are we going to be? - Tallinn April 2025

Futures of human kind

a creative workshop

What kind of humans are we going to be? Our world is more challenging than ever. The greater place of technologies in daily life, the role of artificial intelligence in various trades, climate challenges, and political conflicts, raise questions about what we want to be, stay, or become tomorrow as humans.

Combining writing and crafting, this will be a creative workshop in three parts.
- Explore. It will start with us exploring our feelings about the future of human kind and opening up our imagination via writing and reading in media like fiction and poetry.
- Debate. We will then proceed on debating what our possible futures will look like.
- Create. The third part will involve designing and crafting objects that come from these possible futures in order to investigate them and our emotions around them further. The texts and objects produced by participants will be part of a Futures of humankind online exhibition. 

The whole process is spread on two sessions of 3 hours, with some days in the middle for you to process the first thoughts, debates, ideas you had, and think further! 

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 Is this for you?
> Are you a student, a professional, an artist, or just a human being curious about exploring what’s next?
> Are you dealing with innovation and imagination of alternate realities for your projects
> Are you just questioning, with hope or fear, what our future might look like?
Then this is for you!
No experience required, just bring your curiosity and your imagination!

When and where?

We propose 2 sets of dates, you can choose in which group you'd like to participate

Group A: Thursday  10 April 6:30 to 9:30 (welcome at 6:00) + Monday 14 April 6:30 to 9:30 (welcome at 6:00)

Group B: Friday 11 April 9 to 13 (welcome at 9:30) + Tuesday 15 April 6:30 to 9:30 (welcome at 6:00)

If your schedule doesn't fit these propositions, please contact us: although we would like the groups to stick together, we might arrange Thursday + Tuesday or Friday + Monday. Write to genevieve.genicot@gmail.com

Who we are

We are a design fiction specialist and a writer, teaming up to explore the future in a hands-on, creative way, i.e. by running creative and writing workshops.

> Geneviève Genicot, PhD, is a Belgian poet, fiction writer, writing workshop leader. She is currently developing sound poetry pieces about our relationship with machines : Me and my machine.

> Miguel Pascual (Spain/Ireland) explores the intersection between storytelling, technology, and speculative futures. His double background in human computer interaction and creative writing informs his practice and research in design fiction.

  

 workshops we led in Madrid, Grenoble, Tallinn

The workshop is free

Thanks to a "Culture Moves Europe" European Union artistic mobility grant, we have been invited to Tallinn University for an artistic project combining design fiction and poetry. 

This allows us to meet experts in our fields, grow as artists, collect data for our artistic projects, create, and even offer a workshop to share a learning-by-doing design fiction experience, where poetry is the tool towards reaching our emotions. 

Funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut - Culture Moves Europe

 

Please register here