The challenges facing our society are complex and demanding and must be addressed with a different, innovative and forward-looking approach. Imagining futures by questioning preconceived ideas and narratives and discussing these scenarios, allows us to test and explore ideas in an accessible and creative way: speculation enables us to go beyond polarised debates about "good" or "bad" and to express opinions which are neither so obvious nor so media-influenced by the conflicts and factors of the present- with a constructive and forward-looking tone.
This open day will set out and compare certain visions of the future for Bilbao with talks by experts in the subject and the pooling of ideas and scenarios emerging from the workshop “Futures of the future of cities”. As a keynote speaker, Elisabet Roselló will give an introduction to the thinking about futures with a creative and critical look, presenting the most usual bases, myths and structures about the future which are in fact blocking our thoughts from going beyond that and from discovering new paradigms of the future which will enable, improve and transform different realities. Consecutively and to conclude, Ane Abarrategi (TIPI, Bilbao), Frances Brown from Dundee (Scotland, UK) and Karlheinz Boiger "Breathe Earth Collective" from Graz (Austria), members of the working group, emerged from the collaboration with the Creative Cities Network of the UNESCO will present the results of the workshop “Futures of the future of cities”.
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Elisabet Roselló (1989) is the founder of Postfuturear, a futures studies education platform and a creative and research studio working in the area of strategic foresight.
She graduated in history from the Universitat de Barcelona and is a Fellow of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS).
She has worked as a consultant, researcher and manager on cultural projects in and for different agencies and universities. Her greatest passion is understanding how changes change, how they relate to the way we manage reality, and how this knowledge can be made useful for different groups, organisations and social groups.
Expert network and community builder, designer, educator and positive troublemaker.
I’m an open, energetic, empathetic creator. I thrive on driving from concept to reality and supporting others to do the same. Currently focusing on holistic future development at local level in Dundee and globally with The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust.
Varied experience in strategy, start- ups, mentoring, digital education, charity governance, community consultation, grant making and leadership.
Previous employers/collaborations include Creative Dundee, NESTA, The London College of Fashion, University of Cambridge, Accelerator London, The Cabinet Office, The Commonwealth Secretariat, The Queen’s Young Leaders, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Trust and The National Consortium of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE).
Architect Karlheinz Boiger was born in Austria in 1979. He studied architecture at Graz University of Technology (AT) and Berlin (DE). He already started working at the Hohensinn Architektur studio during his studies in 1999. From 2013 to 2014 he was lecturer at Graz University of Technology, Institute for Architecture and Landscape Design. After winning the competition for the Austrian Pavilon at the Expo Milano 2015 he founded the "Breathe Earth Collective“, an interdisciplinary think-tank of designers, architects, ecologists and artists, which aims to find new ways of dealing with the interrelations of architecture and natural ecosystems in order to enable future hybrid practices combining sustainable technologies with natural processes. At the same time he was lecturer and project manager of the joint venture "Seewood“ which specializes in the field of ecological and innovative timber architecture. Since his partnership with Hohensinn Architektur he gathered a lot of experience in different fields of architecture and tourism as well as in the unusual field of prison design.
