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Berlin, 25 June 2020 \u2013 What happens when scientists imagine the future of our digital society? How will we work, live, love, learn and rule in the year of 2040? What will our world look like two decades from now? The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) now invites interested citizens, scientists and journalists to explore these questions at the <\/strong>twentyforty<\/strong><\/em> exhibition<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital technologies have changed our lives significantly in the last twenty years. With the looming rise of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and data ubiquity it seems evident that the biggest changes still lie ahead of us. What will be next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time for utopias<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition delves into the digital utopias of thirteen visionary researchers from different fields of expertise: a digital geographer, a computer scientist, two communication scientists, four legal scholars, a dementia researcher, three political scientists, and an educational researcher. There were authors from ten different countries, united by their desire to shed light onto the mysteries of a digital world to come. Beyond presenting their exceptional stories, the exhibition features audio-visual experiments in science communication and knowledge transfer. Visitors will be invited to dive into future visions of the digital society and to engage with pressing questions about our lives twenty years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An unlikely experiment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Behind twentyforty<\/em> stands an unlikely experiment in utopian academic writing: With an international essay competition the HIIG offered scientists a platform for imagining utopias beyond the usual research. Researchers and thinkers were invited to submit their visions along five categories: love, live, learn, work and rule. Their visionary stories address the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScientists are used to constructing meaning from the past or analysing the present. In our project, we have created a space for them to think and work on their own research topics in a completely new way\u201d, explains Dr. Benedikt Fecher, initiator of the twentyforty<\/em> project and head of the Knowledge & Society research programme at HIIG. The best submissions \u2013 short stories, theatre plays, essays and email conversations \u2013 were published in an open access book<\/a>. In addition to this publication, an episodic film<\/a> and a radio play have also been produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book your visit here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition takes place from 2-15 July as a \u201cpioneer project\u201d at Haus der Statistik<\/a> in Berlin. Visiting the exhibition is free of charge. Registration for one of the time slots<\/a> is highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pressekontakt:<\/strong>\u00a0Tanja Zagel | Tel. +49 30 200 760 82 | presse@hiig.de
Photography<\/strong> \u00a9 Niels Koennig<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00dcber das HIIG<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das <\/em>Alexander von Humboldt Institut f\u00fcr Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG)<\/em><\/a> erforscht die Entwicklung des Internets aus einer gesellschaftlichen Perspektive, um die damit einhergehende Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche besser zu verstehen. Als erstes Forschungsinstitut in Deutschland mit einem Fokus auf Internet und Gesellschaft hat das HIIG ein Verst\u00e4ndnis erarbeitet, das die Einbettung digitaler Innovationen in gesellschaftliche Prozesse betont. Basierend auf dieser transdisziplin\u00e4ren Expertise und als Teil des <\/em>Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers<\/em><\/a> will das HIIG eine europ\u00e4ische Antwort auf den digitalen Strukturwandel entwickeln.<\/em>Das HIIG wurde 2011 von der Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin (HU), der Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste Berlin (UdK) und vom Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin f\u00fcr Sozialforschung (WZB) gegr\u00fcndet mit dem Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) als integrierter Kooperationspartner. Die ForschungsdirektorInnen des Instituts sind <\/em>Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Prof. Dr. Bj\u00f6rn Scheuermann,<\/em><\/a>Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer<\/em><\/a> und <\/em>Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n