Beyond the end - four futures for 2054

On Friday, 24 January, participants of the ninth Mixed Classroom course will present their reflections on our radical times in the form of an exhibition. What are we experiencing? What role does policy play in the felt loss of ‘grip’? What scenarios are conceivable?

The exhibition Beyond the End - Four Futures for 2054 presents four different possible futures for 2054. What will life look like then? What consequences do those futures have for policy work and politics? And what were the defining moments that led us into that future?

On the 24th, we would like to welcome you at 14:00 at Moira, the location in the heart of Utrecht, where we spent ten weeks discussing our radical times and the futures that may lie ahead. After visiting the exhibition, we will reconvene to reflect on the ‘Politics and policy in a radical age’ theme and the Mixed Classroom as a form of education. We will conclude the event festively with drinks.

Be welcome!

Jeroen Oomen and Maarten Hajer,
on behalf of the teachers and students of the ninth Mixed Classroom.

About the Mixed Classroom

Each year the Urban Futures Studio organises a Mixed Classroom about the imagination of sustainable futures. The ‘Mixed Classroom’ is an exciting new form of education. Students from different disciplines and national and local policymakers are part of one classroom where they learn from and with each other. The central premise of the course is that our images of the future determine how we act in the present. This course gives participants an understanding of the techniques developed for knowing and anticipating futures given the planetary crisis of the 21st century. Participation in this mixed classroom offers students the possibility of gaining hands-on experience in connecting ideas to action in collaboration with policymakers on scientifically innovative and societally urgent topics.