The “Next Frontiers” conference will bring scientists and science fiction authors into contact. Different sciences getting into interdisciplinary conversations plus authors of fiction offering new, even revolutionary perspectives will open up the territory for new visions of the future. The conference aims at surmounting old, dysfunctional patterns of thinking. Central to this is the reality transforming potential of literature, film and other arts, and the huge contribution of fictional world building to real scientific and technological breakthroughs.

27.06.2019 | 19.30 Uhr | Eröffnung | Stadtbibliothek, Max-Bense-Forum
28.06.2019 | 10.00 Uhr | Zukunfstkongress | ICS, Messe Stuttgart
29.06.2019 | 11.00 Uhr | Zukunftsfestival | ICS, Messe Stuttgart