Insights, inspiration, ideas
Climate Fiction Judge & Changemaker – Dr Antje Bierwisch
Dr Bierwisch is an intentional changemaker. Through her Foresight and Futures Literacy work at MCI, she inspires students to innovate, anticipate and shape the future.
As one of the Judges for the Climate Fiction Contest & Anthology Project, Dr Antje Bierwisch will read, enjoy, and – along with a panel of other Judges – choose winning entries from the Climate Fiction stories submitted.
How do young people imagine their future lives when storytelling?
A team at MCI are planning to find out! The aim of the MCI study is to identify recurring patterns of thought, ideas about the future, clusters of ideas, and contexts of meaning and argumentation structures across all stories submitted through the Climate Fiction Contest & Anthology Project. Read more…
Strategic Foresight: Making preferable futures a reality – Q&A with Dr Oliver Som
Dr Som’s work in Strategic Foresight encourages Bachelor and Masters students, and executive leaders, to use free-thinking to stimulate innovation and positively impact the future.
Futures Literacy Lab – September 2022
In September 2022, Dr Antje Bierwisch (a Judge of our Climate Fiction short-story contest) delivered the first Futures Literacy Laboratory at the 9th Responsible Management Education Research (RMER) Conference at MCI, Innsbruck. The Labs encourage students to co-create the meaning of sustainability, peace and inclusion where people live, work and play. See Dr Bierwisch’s post on LinkedIn.
Climate Fiction Contest 2022 (in English) for Schools – Now closed!
Life in Tirol in 2050: Optimistic visions that inspire us to act.
TAP: Partnering with the klimakultur.tirol project
Klimakultur.tirol is a climate culture blog that highlights stories about people who use the tools of art and culture to try out sustainable ways of living and doing business in the Alpine region.