Inspiration

In conversation with Cornelia Walter, Esme Ward, Director of Manchester Museum, explains how she has moved closer to realising her vision of a museum for everyone.

In her keynote, Nicole Ebber, Head of Governance & Movement Relations at Wikimedia Germany, explains how participatory strategic processes can be mastered in business and what she herself has learned from this.

In her welcome speech, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, Artistic Director of the Federal Cultural Foundation, invoked a quote from the economist and science theorist Otto Neurath to capture the current state of cultural institutions...

How can institutions become more vibrant through change? And how might we develop a language that is grounded in scientific and planetary contexts, rather than viewing society through a dogmatic lens of innovation? Caroline Paulick-Thiel, Director of Politics for Tomorrow/nextlearning e. V., takes these questions as her starting point...

Professor Dirk Brockmann, Director of the Center Synergy of Systems at TU Dresden, takes the evolutionary success of fungi as the starting point for a conceptual approach. To him, “thinking like a fungus” means nothing less than communicating, building networks, and exploring despite blindness...

Aric Chen’s lecture is a compelling call for a culture of action. According to Chen, Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation, museums must recognise themselves more clearly as agents of change – not least because, as publicly funded institutions, they already serve as “third places” with the potential to act as testing grounds or experimental spaces...

As part of the accompanying programme of “Übermorgen”, a series of research trips – tandem visits by institutional directors and representatives of local cultural policy – will take place in five major European cities. Here, programme director Cornelia Walter shares her insights.