[ABSTRACT]
As part of the D2030 Missionswerkstätten, I worked on making future imaginaries more accessible—emotionally, visually, and narratively.
Using AI-generated imagery grounded in the Futures Experiential Ladder, I translated scenario logic into intuitively graspable visual worlds. These informed a participatory artefact: a postcard to one’s future self, combining tactile design with speculative cues. Alongside this, I designed the final publication—framing the method through a calm, structured layout that supports self-organized replication.
[OVERVIEW 1.4]
The Missionswerkstatt is a socially scalable method developed by D2030 to empower individuals to connect with what matters most to them—and to act on it. Framed by a belief in the transformative potential of everyday agency, this open-source format supports participants in identifying personal missions rooted in self-reflection, values, and vision. Through carefully designed processes, speculative inputs, and peer interaction, participants explore and express their commitments to more desirable futures—laying the groundwork for self-organized communities of change.
[MISSIONSWERKSTATT 3.4]
Structurally, the method unfolds in three phases—each deepening the connection between personal agency and collective transformation.The publication reflects a three-part process: from inner reflection to shared orientation to individual mission-building.
Participants engaged with speculative inputs, scenario images, and dialogue-based methods to surface what matters—and to articulate where they want to contribute.
The method is designed to continue beyond the workshop setting: participants are invited to connect via holi.social, forming networks of shared momentum.
[SCENARIO STORYTELLING 4.4]
In collaboration with two futures researchers, we translated desired scenarios of the Neue Horizonte report by D2030 into a series of immersive visual narratives. Grounded in scenario storytelling and structured by the Futures Experiential Ladder, the imagery was designed to make abstract foresight tangible, emotional, and experiential.
Using AI-generated visuals (Midjourney), I developed tailored prompts that actively countered the platform’s default aesthetic bias—an expression of the dominant, often Western and techno-solutionist imagination of the future. By shaping alternate materialities, spatial logics, and lived scenes, the visuals opened affective access to desired futures, serving as a catalytic tool in the second phase of the Missionswerkstatt process.
[POSTCARDS 3.4]
The front of the postcard invites an intuitive, image-based selection. Participants choose one from a set of AI-generated visual motifs—each rooted in a scenario from the Neue Horizonte report—that resonates most with their personal sense of possibility. This selection bridges cognitive understanding and emotional connection, opening a space for self-reflection.
Structured like a letter to one’s future self, the writing prompt asks participants to compose a message for a time where transformation has already taken place. This simple yet powerful speculative exercise strengthens perceived self-efficacy by imagining what it feels like to have already made a difference.
[APPROACH 3.4]
To support engagement and lower the threshold for participation, the postcards included a set of modular text snippets—ranging from poetic fragments to pragmatic affirmations. These scaffolds helped overcome writer’s block and opened up diverse narrative registers. A custom-designed stamp, referencing “space-time curvature tracking,” added both tactile presence and playful closure—elevating the postcard into a multi-sensory artefact of the future mundane.
[TYPOGRAPHY 2.4]
