Who gets to decide what our future will look like? As designers, we translate visions of (desirable) futures into material form. In doing so, we take on societal responsibility. The workshop “Circular Futures” offers an introduction to futures studies for designers. Moving between different scenarios of circular economies, we explore design approaches, breaking points, and forms of resilience. We develop our own pathways into possible futures. Always with this one question in the back of our minds: What could possibly go wrong?
about
Merle Genc
Berlin Ethics Lab, Technical University Berlin
Merle Genc is a research associate at the Berlin Ethics Lab at TU Berlin, where she is conducting her doctoral research on responsible product design. As an industrial designer and futurist, she has an interdisciplinary profile that combines theoretical expertise with design practice.