What opportunities, risks, potentials and challenges lie ahead? Understanding is all about thinking: How are the issues connected? Which developments do we consider plausible – and why? Only by understanding the future can we truly experience it later.
We live in times of high complexity, uncertainty, and change. Many people and organizations feel overwhelmed by this. But the future doesn’t have to be daunting. It is shapeable – if we learn to understand it, experience it, and consciously influence it.
As a futurist, I support you and your organization in making the future tangible: with sound foresight, immersive formats, and creative methods from foresight, strategy, design, and science.
Services
The future is unpredictable, but by combining different approaches, methods, and perspectives, I can make it understandable, experiencable, and shapeable for you and your organization and together with you and your organization.
Experience
How conceivable is this future – for me, for my organization, for others? Experiencing is about feeling: Is this future scenario truly imaginable? What impact would it have on our everyday lives, our work, our roles? Only by experiencing the future can we truly shape it.
Shape
What does this mean for my strategy or actions? How do I become active here and now? Shaping is where we build the bridge between future and present. We prioritize and decide, set a focus, and move into action. Only by shaping the future does it become reality.
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Projects
Here you will find a selection of my projects for clients from various industries.
Feddersen Futures – Scenarios for the Future of Feddersen’s Business Areas in Europe
Co-creative development over nine months of five scenarios for the Feddersen Group’s business areas (including foreign trade, plastics distribution and plastics production), with strategic questions and topics derived to support the development of a cross-group strategy.
The Future of the Classical Music Sector
What does the future of Hamburg’s classical music sector look like? Together with ten industry experts, Philippe Gaspoz and I explored this question and developed four plausible scenarios.
Fotocredits: Swanhild Kruckelmann
EnBW Sustainability Dialogue
As part of the 2025 Sustainability Dialogue, participants used the Futures Wheel method to explore the impacts of heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires on energy infrastructures. The key insights were turned into future news headlines from the year 2070, making the scenarios tangible for all.
Maschinenraum – Future Impulses for the German Mittelstand
Supporting Maschinenraum as a Maker in various formats focused on Foresight and adjacent topics.
Futures Workshop for the Badisches Landesmuseum
This participatory futures workshop focused on the future of the Badisches Landesmuseum. Together with more than 20 citizens from Karlsruhe and the surrounding region, we identified and developed wishes and challenges for the museum.
AI Art Workshop for Zajadacz
How can you create art using AI, and what opportunities and risks come with it? In this introductory workshop, participants from Zajadacz got to know tools like Midjourney and other AI applications, creating images that will be displayed within the company.
Introduction to ChatGPT for the Music Industry
In this introductory session, more than 30 professionals from Hamburg’s music industry learned how to use ChatGPT for text production. Real-life cases were presented – from newsletters to song lyrics and social media posts – to ensure the knowledge could be applied immediately.
About me
As a futurist, my goal is to show people and organizations new ways to shape the future. In doing so, I draw on a range of experiences:
Profession
May 2021 until August 2024
port F, Corporate Innovation Lab of the Feddersen Group
Mission: To make the plastics industry fit for the future and circular.
March 2018 until April 2021
Z_punkt The Foresight Company
Mission: Help companies to shape their futures with foresight.
Since October 2015
Lecturer in foresight, future research and speculative design at various universities
Mission: Teaching future skills and increasing futures literacy
Education
October 2011 until September 2015
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies and Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg
October 2015 until December 2017
Master of Science in Urban Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar
Further training
Kaos Pilots
ShiftSchool
IDEO
European Creators Lab
Jürgen Alker
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Ideas
In addition to my projects for clients, I also work privately on various ideas that make the future tangible in very different ways. Some are about to be released, others are still in the early stages.
SDGgolf
mit Christophe Armand
SDGgolf combines the game mechanics of mini golf with education for sustainable development. Each hole focuses on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and playfully conveys knowledge about global challenges.
The Future Map
mit Magdalena Vollmer
The Future Map is a visual foresight tool that helps organizations identify future challenges and develop strategic courses of action. In a one-day workshop, a customized map of the future is created.
Product Fiction
mit Michael Schieben
Product Fiction combines the Product Field Framework with Design Fiction to develop new approaches to innovation and strategy. Products are not just seen as objects, but as narratives about possible futures.
Foresight Board Game
mit Jan C. Silbersiepe
Why not “play” foresight? That’s the question we’re exploring through board game prototypes designed to make foresight tangible in a playful way.