Inspiration

This page is still under construction. Insights, examples of best practice and experience reports from the funded institutions will be added here gradually. Please check back regularly!

Videos
27/10/2025

Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska: Welcome Speech

Welcome at the first Future Forum
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...
# Aufbruch & Zukunft
Videos
27/10/2025

Caroline Paulick-Thiel: Politics for Tomorrow

Keynote at the first Future Forum
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...
# Aufbruch & Zukunft
# Keynote
Videos
27/10/2025

Aric Chen: From Ideas to Enactment – Cultural Institutions as Testing Grounds

Keynote at the first Future Forum
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...
# Aufbruch & Zukunft
# Keynote