Future Skills, VR dances, Sneek Peaks & XR prizes ✨
35 days to go until #waterkant25 - Why Future Skills are now a MUST-HAVE // Special VR dance experiences at the festival // Our NextGenXR award // Exhibition opening on 1 June.
Dear Waterkant Community,
things are getting serious. And pretty exciting.
#waterkant25 starts in 34 days and with it two festival days full of questions, answers, perspectives, conversations, inspiration and new connections that should get us all moving.
Read here: // Why the right future skills are now MUST-HAVEs
// What you can therefore expect from us at the Future Skills Track
// What special VR dance experience there will be
// How you can win the NextGenXR prize with your own XR project
// and what you can expect at the exhibition opening on 1 June #sneekpeak
Let's go! 🤙🏼
#diveintonewfutures
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Future skills at #waterkant25
// What future skills do we need to be successful in a rapidly changing world? #musthave
The world is not only changing rapidly - it is changing in many directions at the same time. Global crises, technological leaps, new working models and social change are coming together. AI is changing how we work. Climate change is calling business models into question. Values such as sustainability, diversity and participation are shaping new expectations of leadership and organisation.
For young people in particular, this means that the certainty of being ‘finished’ with a fixed skillset no longer exists. Instead, they need skills that make them flexible: Future skills. // These include not only technological or entrepreneurial skills, but also social, ethical and personal competences - from creativity and self-efficacy to the ability to endure complexity and realign oneself.
So the question is not just ‘What do I need to know?’, but rather:
‘How do I remain adaptive, adaptable and able to act - in a world that is constantly reorganising itself?’
// And that's exactly what we provide experts with concrete tips for. On the Future Skills track at the Waterkant Festival.
These sessions & speakers are among others:
‘A look into the future of AI, ageing & health’ - with Katrina Günther (futurologist and founder of Futures Probes)
LLM-Natives - How the AI generation is rethinking work, learning and relationships - with Gregor Schmalzried (journalist & speaker, focus on AI & digital society)
Clarity for your home & finances - with Mandy Semkow (coach for everyday structure & mental clarity) and Jasmin Reich (investment advisor, Fonds Europe Financial Services GmbH)
Why future skills are not enough - educational sovereignty as a new compass for system change - with Ronny Röwert (Managing Director, Digital Learning Campus) and Stefan Lemke (Officer, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) // Digital Learning Campus Schleswig-Holstein
Coding for Positive Change: Stories of Impact and Innovation - Julia Heidinger (Co-Founder, Social Developers Club)
VR experiences of a different kind
// VR & dance - with Regina Rossi
VR stands for ‘Virtual Reality’ - a technology that allows you to completely immerse yourself in a computer-generated, digital world, usually using special glasses, and see, hear and experience things as if you were really there - whether in a game, a film or a simulation.
How does your own body feel in a virtual environment? How does our sense of movement change when technology becomes a dance partner?
In her interactive installation ‘Dance Machines’, choreographer Regina Rossi invites you to experience body, space and technology in a new way. Equipped with VR glasses, participants enter a choreographed experiential space between digital simulation and real movement.
The experience is part of the Waterkant Festival programme and can be visited on site with registration.
NextGen XR Prize
// Immersive future made in SH.
XR stands for ‘Extended Reality’ - a collective term for technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), in which digital content is displayed or made tangible in such a way that it appears to be part of the real world or replaces it completely.
In short: XR means seeing, experiencing and interacting with digital worlds - not just on a screen, but right in the middle of them.
The NextGen XR Prize Schleswig-Holstein - initiated by the Society for Immersive Media (GiM.SH and Waterkant Futues Thinking Lab) - is looking for young visionaries who are breaking new ground with XR. Win €500, a presence at the Waterkant Festival and your place in the spotlight!
Are you developing an XR project that the world should see?
Whether VR, AR or MR - if your prototype, concept or finished experience is conquering new digital spaces, then the NextGen XR Prize SH is the right place for you! We are looking for fresh ideas, unusual perspectives and young talents who use immersive technologies to tell stories, solve problems or simply think differently.
Waterkant exhibition opening #savethedate// 1 June - 2 PM
Want a sneak peek?
On 1 June at 2 p.m., we will be opening our interactive future exhibition - and kicking off the Waterkant season.
With an official opening - our special guests from the Kiel Chamber of Industry and Commerce, music, cake, lemonade, ice cream - and: Guided tours of the exhibition.
The Jante Sauna Bus will also be there to heat you up! Come along!
Sea you soon 🌊
your Team of the Waterkant Futures Thinking Lab
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