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#FuturiumSchool: Challenge of the Week – Prototyping

Shaping your own city of the future

What might your city of the future look like? Today, many people move to cities to work or to study. Cities are attractive because everything is available and easily accessible: shopping,...

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Five-hour working day – can it work?

"Nothing is forbidden, but we’ve all become sensitised to certain things"

Lasse Rheingans has a different take on work. In 2017, the managing director of a digital agency based in Bielefeld, Germany, brought in a five-hour working day for his employees – and left their...

Hydrogen from the Algae Factory

What if the cars of the future were to run on climate-neutral fuels such as hydrogen, which could even be generated with the help of algae from the roofs of private houses? Or what if home-bred...

Futurium closed until further notice

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19, we regret to announce that Futurium will be closed to the public from Saturday, 14 March 2020, until further notice. This includes our exhibition,...

ON THE FREEZING-COLD FAST-LANE OF THE ELECTRICITY HIGHWAY

Energy reaching its destination within seconds – across continents and with no power loss in transmission lines along the way. In the future, superconductors might well be able to make this...

Music of the Future – How artificial intelligence and creativity go together

Artifical Intelligence refers to the ability of a computer to solve tasks that require human intelligence. Where an algorithm can only follow fixed patterns, AI creates new connections all on its...