Rethinking Raw Materials – Design, Brains & the Future

Pireeni Sundaralingam, a cognitive scientist, and guests will be discussing the future of sustainable design and the unconventional use of raw materials. Let's look at raw materials in a new way!

Information

Every minute of the day, we touch and use a range of different objects but we rarely pay any attention to them: Where they have been before we get them? Or where they are going after we discard them? For example, what would happen if we used different materials for our clothes, our shoes? How could our food systems or our buildings use completely different raw materials?

Our brains are creatures of habit and we are used to thinking about problems in similar ways. But maybe we need new approaches, different routines, because critical issues are often neglected.

Tackling our neurological blind spots, we invite everyone interested in re-thinking design and raw materials to discover new and innovative ways to design and materials.

In an attempt to practice our cross-disciplinary thinking, this event combines design, business perspectives, the demand for sustainability and the latest findings from brain research.

Moderation

• Pireeni Sundaralingam is a cognitive neuroscientist and founder of the consulting firm "Neuro-Resilience Consulting", helping individuals and organizations optimize their brains, boosting their productivity and innovation in a fast-changing world.

Guests

• Emma Sicher is a designer investigating materials and foods at the intersection of microbiology and anthropology to envision relational futures.
• Anna Yona is the founder and managing director of Wildling; she studied English literature and Middle Eastern studies in Tel Aviv and worked as a freelance translator before returning to Germany with her husband Ran and their three children and founding Wildling because the family couldn't find shoes for the children that met the demands of the urge to move, sustainable materials and fair production.

Information

• Venue: Exhibition
• The event is free of charge.
• A ticket is required. Remaining tickets will be available at the box office.
• Event language: English
• The event will be recorded. The video will then be available on our YouTube channel.

Accessibility

• We are a wheelchair accessible venue.
• Spaces without seating are available for wheelchair users.
• The event addresses interested people of age 16+.
• Participation requirements: no prior knowledge required

The future is for everyone! The Futurium wants to be accessible to everyone.

If there are any other access needs on your part, please feel free to let us know. We will try to meet them: info@futurium.de

All information on accessibility can be found here.

Photo & Video

Photos will be taken during the event. If you don’t wish to be pictured, please let us know in advance.

Tickets

For this event a ticket is required. In order to get to the ticketshop click here.