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Support the BEYOND Festival and this year's projects and artists with the three-day online pass.

Various lectures and panels of the symposium will also be broadcast free of charge.

July 23

Sm(ART

We have to balance natural stupidity and artificial intelligence with artistic intelligence and thus generate new opportunities for social, economic, ecological and artistic transformation.

July 24

Designing From Emerging Futures

"Future Design" is the globally unique and radical approach that critically and visionarily reflects our current knowledge and our current ideas of desirable futures in order to bring exciting possibilities into imaginability and visibility.

July 25

Artists for the Future

"Artist for Future" promises a "Climate Art Movement" to catalyze a cultural, spiritual and social evolution and to escape the prevailing paradigm of the economy. It's about immersing ourselves in the unknown and surprising ourselves.

23 - 26 July

Film Festival

The most powerful films and documentaries on ecological and social climate change and global warming.
Because of the CLIMATE – we must CHANGE.

AI for good

We have less than 10 years to solve globally our societies biggest problems and AI holds great promises. How can AI and machine learning be applied to solve some of the global society’s biggest challenge?

GREEN NEW DEAL(S)

How do we accomplish the unprecedented task of putting our society on new foundations to protect the climate and ultimately our future? Green New Deal is Future Design par excellence - transformative, democratic, necessary, sustainable.

Narratives For The 21st Century

Two new narratives are currently emerging for the 21st century. The "Silicon Valley Narrative" in which super-rich transform themselves into super creatures and superheroes, long-lived or immortal, set off for Mars or under the sea to bring themselves to safety.