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Future workshops: Sustainability, migration, digitalisation
Public event as part of the Oldenburg School for Humanities and Social Sciences
Oldenburg. As part of the "Oldenburg School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities", the "Future Workshops" took place on 6 and 7 September 2018 in The Smart House Oldenburg (Schlossplatz 16) - three workshops each on the topics of sustainability, migration and digitalisation.
As part of the "Shaping the Future" project funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, project leaders Prof. Thomas Alkemeyer, Prof. Martin Butler and Prof. Paul Mecheril and other members of the Wissenschaftliches Zentrum Genealogie der Gegenwart (WiZeGG) and the Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) invited participants to lectures, discussions and performances. Together with the audience, they reflected on how our future coexistence will change or can be shaped with a view to sustainability, under conditions of migration and in the course of digitalisation processes, with a particular focus on mediating between science and practice. In the "Sustainability" future workshop on Thursday afternoon, guests Julius Rauber (ConPolicy GmbH, Institute for Consumer Policy), Annaliesa Hilger (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Jascha Rohr (Institute for Participatory Design) and local philosopher Reinhard Schulz (CvO University of Oldenburg) debated topics such as nudging, real-world laboratories and citizen participation, for example in the design of urban living spaces. This was followed on Friday morning by impressive performances by performance artist and scientist Monica van der Haagen-Wulff (University of Cologne), by dramaturge Gesine Geppert (Oldenburg State Theatre) and cabaret artist Fatih Çevikkollu on the topic of "Migration", as well as a lecture by educational scientist Yasemin Karakaşoğlu (Head of the Department of Intercultural Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Bremen) on the possibilities of a cosmopolitan future. Finally, on Friday afternoon, the future workshop "Digitalisation" took place. Keynote speeches were given by media scientist and net activist Nele Heise, self-tracker and Computing Science expert Jochen Meyer (Head of Health at OFFIS, University of Oldenburg), Ira Diethelm (Professor of Didactics of Computer Science, University of Oldenburg) and Andreas Fickenscher (Managing Director of Fickenschers Backhaus). They addressed the question of the extent to which digitalisation permeates their everyday academic appointments. Once again, exciting dialogues developed between the guests and the Oldenburg audience, in which the three main topics of the future workshops were also related to each other.
In 2018, the "Oldenburg School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities" brought together a series of events for the third time to promote young academics in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Oldenburg. In addition to internal academic communication, the focus in this case was on dialogue between academia, the arts, politics and the interested public.