Utopikum

Co-Creator / 2025 Participatory Installation

The Utopikum was a participatory installation by the Interactive Media Foundation and its creative lab Tinkertank, where visitors could create personal utopical visions with the help of a futuristic looking machine.

Explore the possible and impossible, conceivable and inconceivable futures. In this retro-futuristic laboratory, you become a future lab technician yourself, tinkering with objects from yesterday and designing visions of tomorrow.

With the help of complex equipment, machine brains, present-day scanners, and personalization consoles, we send you on a journey through space and time. Your personal punch card is the starting point: it stores your fragment of the future, makes it available in the Utopia Archive, and accompanies you even after the festival as a tangible memento of your research.

In a playful and interactive way, you can experiment in the Utopikum, modulate your inputs, and observe how small ideas develop into entire images of the future. All contributions are collected in the utopia archive and presented to visitors on screens on site.

In this way, a collective space of possibilities grows during the festival, making it clear that the future is not set in stone, but rather a network of many voices, ideas, and hopes. There is not just one vision of the future, but many.

Exhibitions

2025 Silbersalz Festival in Halle (Saale)
2025 IBA´27-Festival @ Franck-Areal Ludwigsburg