Open Call: IdeaSquare & School of Commons

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. 

DEADLINE (extended): Thursday, 21 NOVEMBER 2024

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