Verlieben in die Zukunft

In the organizer's words:

Time travel to your vision of the future - reports from the future

Climb into our time machine and embark on a visionary journey through time to the year 2030. Tell us what your dream future looks like: What do people do, how do they live, what is the housing situation like, what is nature like in the city, what is mobility like, how does life work?

Other "Reports from the future" present real examples from Erlangen and other cities that show a sustainable, citizen- and public welfare-oriented way of life.

We counter the gloomy narrative of a future of scarcity, enforced restrictions and climate catastrophes with our visions of a positive, desirable future that we can fall in love with. In the future, man will be the "gardener" of nature and not its "destroyer". The future world makes us happy because all our basic needs are richly fulfilled and we can develop in diversity, self-determination and harmony.

The time machine method comes from Rob Hopkins' "How to Fall in Love with the Future - A Time Traveler's Guide to Changing the World" (2025, Chelsea Green Publishing).