Zukünfte auf Probe

How do futures come about? We expect them, plan them, fear them, or already rehearse them today. In doing so, we connect past, present and anticipated coming worlds with one another. These connections, however, are never seamless: interruptions, absences, detours and asynchronicities are part of them. The panel discussion asks what happens when one understands this interplay of connection and interruption as dis:konnective production of future.Three research perspectives join the conversation. Clemens Finkelstein takes you to places where the future is already being tested today: from Antarctic stations and desert simulations in the Atacama Desert to underwater habitats and lunar simulations. These laboratories are globally networked and at the same time deliberately isolated, and they play out how habitable alien worlds could be.