LOST Workshop 2026 "Organizing for Social Transformation"

12. März - 13. März

The winter 2025/26 LOST workshop takes place from March 11-13, 2026.

Dear LOST community,

We are pleased to officially announce our upcoming LOST Workshop: "Organizing for Social Transformation“. The workshop will take place from March 12-13, 2026, with a writing day on March 11, on the Leuphana campus. 

In this workshop, we will address the question of how to navigate future-making in times of polarization, reflect on methods for creating futures, and engage in the (co)creation of experimental spaces for change towards sustainability. 

TopicsDate  Time

Pre-Program: Writing Retreat

Leonie Eising

March 11

10.00 – 17.00

 

Introduction 

Ursula Weisenfeld & Leonie Eising

Welcome of new members

Elke Schüßler & Matthias Wenzel

March 1209.00 – 09.30

Session 1: Future-making: From Vision to Action?

Guests: Paula Wuth (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, 
Red Latinoamericana de Futuros), 
Sunny Mosangzi Xu (Aarhus BSS, Aahrhus University)

Session Chair: Matthias Wenzel

 09.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break 11.00 – 11.30

Session 2: Future-making & Polarization

Guest: Peter Winkler (University of Salzburg)

Session Chair: Dennis Schoeneborn

 11.30 – 13.00
Lunch Break 13.00 – 14.00

Session 3: Co-Designing alternative worlds: Imagining, 
speculating, and shaping transformation

Session Chair: Britt Smulders & Annemarie Dedden

 14.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break 15.30 – 16.00

Session 4: The Future of LOST

Session Chair: Boukje Cnossen, Lena Kostuj, Elke Schüßler, 
Matthias Wenzel

 16.00 – 17.00
Joint Workshop Dinner 

18.30 

 

Session 5:  Transformation in Practice

Guests: Corinna Krome (Mosaique, Utopia), 
David Lampe (PLATZprojekt)

Session Chair: Ursula Weisenfeld & Leonie Eising

March 1309.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break 11.00 – 11.30

Session 6: Project Development Roundtables –
Researching Social Transformation

Session Chair: Leonie Eising & Ursula Weisenfeld

 11.30 – 13.00
Lunch 13.00 – 14.00
Farewell