Research Question
What would agriculture look like without the exploitation of the environment, animals, and humans? How can we take responsibility for the essential resources of soil, water, and seeds and care for them well? We are exploring a world in which nutritious food is grown ecologically and socially sustainably, within planetary boundaries, and is distributed fairly to all. A world where site-specific, diverse, and resilient farming is possible. Where access to essential resources like soil, water, and seeds is organised collectively. A world in which agricultural work is enjoyable and culturally rooted.

Quotes and other insights from the dinner
„Strengthening networks and decentralised structures are key. Local cooperation creates resilience and reduces dependency on central systems. It is equally important to actively shape alternative realities. Political solutions alone are not enough; local initiatives must create spaces for dialog and develop strategies for systemic change. Deceleration and awareness are crucial to enable sustainable change.

Text documentation: Tari Weber

Research Question
What will the family look and feel like when we overcome heteronormative ideas?

Quotes and other insights from the dinner
"Probably the most important insight of the evening, as one participant aptly summarised, is to think bigger about the family. In the context of daycare centres, it has long been established that a child has several caregivers in addition to two parents. This insight also provides a basis for action, because what the participants can already implement directly today is to ask family, friends, the housing project or neighbours for support in everyday life and to involve them in the children's upbringing. This strengthens the feeling of a large but connected network that people can rely on. The important thing here is to communicate your own need for help in order to enable the community to connect with each other in the first place. At the same time, the participants also want to offer their help and community. The well-known African proverb “It takes a whole village to raise a child” has a lot to offer."

Text documentation: Evelyn Lima Duhn

Research Question
What would a desirable future look like from the perspective of inner work and healing practitioners? What would a world look like in which awareness of diversity is anchored, equal treatment is internalized and an empathic attitudeis lived?

Quotes and other insights from the dinner
"They long for a world in which people can flourish. More creativity, more freedom, more warmth. Their natural reaction is to help create such a space. Some create a symbol of intersectional and intergenerational togetherness by connecting through mutual touch. Without rehearsal, completely improvised through their body language - yet respecting boundaries and mutual consensus. The others create a situation in which all pressure and expectations are thrown overboard. All that remains is the sound of the guitar strings and deep gazes into the crowd. Although no words are spoken, there is a general understanding of what should be expressed.

Text documentation: Tari Weber

Research Question
We are exploring a world in which scholars understand themselves to be “engaged scholars”. People have learned from the experiences of discrimination and violence in the past, have ended the practices of colonialism and domination, where there are no relationships of superiority and subordination, and where people who have experienced violence are rehumanized. Scholars actively prevent the repetition of these systems of oppression and contribute to carrying these insights forward into both the present and the future. Their impact extends far beyond the former so-called academic and university landscapes and interacts with the societies in which they exist.

Quotes and other insights from the dinner
"The group performances show how much the participants can detach themselves from frontal teaching and presentations in order to imagine with all their senses instead. The first ones choose a creative, musical approach. They accompany themselves on the guitar, sing the chorus and speak their verses of insight: Different disciplinary approaches have materialised something, they proudly share.

The next ones suggest the introduction of “university subscriptions” as a model for the future, because learning should be seen as a game and take place without a prescribed time frame. Learning, teaching and living are like trying to untangle a knotted wool thread. It requires patience and an openness to uncertainty.

In the future, places will be needed where different forms of knowledge come together and meet the practical knowledge of people who perhaps do not primarily see themselves as knowledge carriers. The clever integration of public places creates unlikely encounters. And without consumption. Nodding heads.To get closer to this idea, the last group asks what makes a meeting place a place of learning. Is it enough for completely different people, who would otherwise never meet, to come together here?"

Text documentation: Tari Weber

Research Question
We are travelling into a world that is just in every respect, with a human rights-based, humanistic, and courageous journalism that holds power accountable and continuously offers resistance where necessary. There is a functioning and constructive media debate culture that serves people, future generations, and the environment. We explore how people communicate and how they stay informed in this world. We examine how media and journalismoperate in this just world and how they manifest themselves.

Quotes and other insights from the dinner
”They present as if their entire future depends on the results. Although forms of presentation play a primary role in their day-to-day work, the question of staging is of secondary importance today. They mainly fill the room with their words. Clearly, distinctly. They are journalists and this is their pitch for the future.
They want mass therapy for everyone - especially journalists; the recognition of ignorance; local journalism that is internationally networked; a new understanding of journalism. But they don't just want all this for themselves: They see a relevance in showing citizens: inside how reporting works with skills workshops. They want to revolutionise the industry. Not because they see it as their job to defend the system, but to report on it even more freely. Without the constant fear of repression."

Text documentation: Tari Weber