Could AI enhance our intelligence? What exactly is machine intelligence? Are public universities facing extinction? What would a sustainable Mars station look like? Finding answers to these questions requires teamwork between scientists and science fiction authors. At the “Next Frontiers – Applied Fiction Days” future congress, discover how perspectives from research and fiction converge to generate extraordinary ideas.
Dive into exciting topics through science slams, talks, and keynotes—ranging from artificial intelligence and DNA nanotechnologies to space technology and knowledge-based future scenarios. Join researchers, artists, and media professionals to explore how science fiction can enrich science and questions about the future by offering food for thought. The underlying belief is this: Our future can only be as good as the vision we have of it.
Program Highlights
Wednesday, May 6: Opening Night at the Stuttgart City Library
with Assistant Professor Amrei Bahr and author Berit Glanz on the topic “Intelligence: Where Science Meets Fiction”
Thursday, May 7: Keynotes, Science Slam, highlights, and live drawing at the Vaihingen Campus, Pfaffenwaldring 57, and Café frei[raum]
Keynotes on future policy and complexity research, plus short, entertaining science presentations on plastics, DNA storage, and sustainability on Mars
Friday, May 8: Workshop on the topic of utopias, dystopias, and experimental spaces
Between Science Fiction, Metapolitics, and the Social Sciences. On the City Center Campus
Admission
The opening event at the City Library, the “Blitzlichter” sessions, the fishbowl discussions at Café frei[raum], and the workshop on the Stadtmitte campus are free and open to the public.
Tickets and discounted tickets (60/30 euros) are available for the main program, which includes keynotes, talks, a science slam, and a comic presentation in Lecture Hall V 57.03 on the University of Stuttgart’s Vaihingen campus.
Link: Internationale Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT)
