In a world of constant change, there is a pressing need for all of us to re-imagine likely challenges
and scenarios to address the future. Are we equipped to do just that?
While global challenges like climate change and migration need global solutions, we are in danger of
returning to the old world of geopolitical rivalry, capitalist instability, nationalist self-assertion, and
major wars. As Einstein said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that
created them” – but we are in danger of doing just that.
In this event, thinkers from Berlin, Oxford and beyond are coming together in the iconic Humboldt
Forum to look at likely futures for a complex world where the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ interact uneasily.
They chart the move from global challenges to planetary imperatives and the impact of new
technologies and of new forms of knowledge (on democratic development, on health, on new forms
of energy and ideas of social organisation and the built environment as well as utopias).
We would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday, 3 July 2024 at the Humboldt-Forum for an allday
programme looking at different aspects of ‘futures’ in our joint research disciplines: STEM, the
Medical Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Arts and Humanities.

Please find the programme attached and register for the event by 21 June.