Shaping the future – a review
As part of the exhibition “Fixing Futures. Planetary futures between speculation and control”, our four-part lecture series “Shaping the future – between climate change, technology and social responsibility” took place at Goethe University’s Giersch Museum from May to July 2025.
The guests were Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst, Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz and Dr. des. Felix Kämper, each of which opened up different perspectives on the challenges of our time. Among other things, the lectures dealt with the tense relationship between sustainability and justice, the continued existence of the political in the face of current crises, the principle of intergenerationality from a legal perspective and the possibilities of an ecological continuation of social criticism. The result was a multifaceted examination of the future issues of our present, in which ethical, political, legal and social theory perspectives were brought into conversation with each other and discussed in detail with the audience.
The lecture series was a collaboration between the Research Centre Normative Orders and the MGGU – Museum Giersch at Goethe University with the aim of providing new perspectives and food for thought for actively shaping our future.
