Open Call: IdeaSquare & School of Commons

05.12.2024 — 12.12.2024

  • Online

Thursday, 05 & 12 December 2024, 18.00-20.00 CET

  • Project

Open to: ZHdK and SoC only

Online Workshop & Guest Lecture Thursday, 05 December & Thursday, 12 December 2024 18.00-20.00 CET, with a series of small-scale, online tasks during the interim days. All online.

How do we prepare for a future we don’t yet know? A future in which collaboration of different forms will be inevitable... What will these collaborations look like in our near and distant futures?

The tools and approaches we use today may become obsolete for the futures that lie ahead of us, so how can we prepare for these unknowns? Assuming that collaboration in different forms—such as blended intelligence, like human-AI collaboration, and multi-species exchange, like with mushrooms or ants—will become more and more relevant to our functioning and survival, this workshop will explore ‘the future of collaboration’ through a multitude of forms and perspectives. What will it feel like collaborating with the more-or-other-than human; with plants, food, objects, technologies, animals? What are the necessary tools, approaches and incentives required in order to create a desirable future collaboration?

CERN, where the Large Hadron Collider and World Wide Web was born, has a long and established history of anticipating and creating non-incremental ideas and technologies. In this workshop you will explore a collaborative framework for innovation that addresses and centers the unknown.

Register and reserve your place for ‘The Future of Collaboration’ workshop, developed together by CERNs Ideas Square and ZHdKs SoC by completing the following form. 

The deadline to reserve a place is e.o.d, 01 November 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact hello@schoolofcommons.org

IDEA Square

The innovation space at CERN

School of Commons

Global community-learning space.

Amy Gowen

Since 2023, Amy has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), overseeing the Publishing and Public Program. In 2024, she was appointed Deputy Director.

Chantelle Lue

Since 2023, Chantelle has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), where she oversees communications and supports the public program and growing alumn* network.

Gabriel Hensche

Since 2022, Gabriel has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), and oversees the Peer Learning Program.