Contact persons for the project
Dr. Jasmin Jossin
priorly at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Zentrum Mensch und Technik
Dr. Annette Voigt
FB 06 Architektur Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung (ASL), FG Freiraumplanung
Universität Kassel
Gottschalkstraße 26
34127 Kassel
Project lead
Jasmin Jossin
Jasmin Jossin is an environmental psychologist and a sustainability scientist. She coordinated the contents of the project and contributed her expertise to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of the educational goals. More information can be found here.
Annette Voigt
Annette Voigt is a landscape planner and ecologist and teaches and researches in the Department of Open Space Planning at the University of Kassel. She contributed topics of urban nature and social theories and coordinated the project administratively. More information can be found here.
Research associates
Richard Beecroft
Richard Beecroft is a sustainability researcher at KIT and contributed his experience in designing educational processes in real-world laboratories and his knowledge of the scenario method to the project. More information can be found here.
Tanja Godlewsky
Tanja Godlewsky is a designer. She has enriched our project with her expertise in brand and corporate design, gender design and design in the context of pop music. More about her here.
Margarete Arnold
Margarete Arnold teaches at the University of Kassel in the Department of Open Space Planning and studied landscape architecture. She contributed her expertise in spatial design issues related to open space and architecture to the project.
Franziska Bernstein
Franziska Bernstein is a landscape planner and also researches and teaches in the field of open space planning at the University of Kassel. She contributed her expertise on urban nature to the project.
Katja Becker is Professor of Media and Interface Design at Westfälische Hochschule. She contributed her expertise in communication design from 2020 to February 2023. More information can be found here.
Claudia Vogler
Claudia VogleClaudia Vogler is an engineer, mediator and is studying futurology. From 2020 to the end of 2021, she contributed her wide-ranging expertise and experience in development cooperation to the creative process design.
Student employees
David Rothfuss
David Rothfuss is a theatre scholar and art historian – he is currently studying landscape architecture. He contributed his knowledge of spatial aesthetic processes and issues related to architecture and open space to the project.
Ida-Maria Sommerfeldt
Ida-Maria Sommerfeldt studied at Leuphana University. Among other things, she worked intensively on the seminar „The end of human dominance“ in Potsdam and also wrote her Master’s thesis on this topic.
Insa Olshausen
Insa Olshausen is studying Transformation Studies at the European University of Flensburg. She brought her enthusiasm for the potential of creative methods for socio-ecological change to the project. More from her here.
Sophia Multhaup
Sophia Multhaup is studying urban and regional planning at the University of Kassel. She has contributed her special interest in the utopian city and innovative participation methods.
Honorary member
Ulrike Amrehn is a teacher and voluteers as a clinic clown. She was involved in the project as a civil society partner of the TranSition Town and Wandelbar initiatives in Eberswalde. More information can be found here.
Our partner network
Swiss artist Florence Iff works primarily on themes of the Anthropocene, such as climate change and the technosphere. She designed the imagery for our research project.
Prof Myriel Milicevic teaches Elementary Design – Form and Process at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. In her work, she has been exploring the hidden connections between people and their natural, social and technical environments for many years. These explorations are mostly participatory in nature and manifest themselves in practical-utopian models, processes and narratives. Myriel was – together with students from the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam – a practice partner of an Xtopia, the seminar „It’s the End of the World …“.
Spirit of Football (SoF) is a non-profit organisation that relies on a passion for football to raise awareness for cosmopolitanism and against exclusion of any kind – on the football pitch and in everyday life. Democratic and inclusive fairness rules are the guiding principles that SoF uses to shape global learning in various educational programmes. With the „Fairplay Future“ programme, SoF aims to convey the 17 sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda in a tangible way and encourage people to get involved in sustainability, equality and cooperation both locally and nationally. The organisation was partner for Xtopian interventions in Thüringen.
The Visionautik Academy longs for a culture in which the new is welcomed, nurtured and encouraged with the same friendliness as a new human child. A culture in which development can take place, even if – or precisely because – it goes far beyond the present. As our facilitators, the Visionauts supported us in developing imaginative and ambitious visions and realising them professionally.
The Museum for Sepulchral Culture is dedicated to the topics of dying, death, burial, mourning and remembrance. It is the only independent institution dedicated exclusively to cultural and scientific standards that deals with the entire spectrum of so-called last things. The museum encourages its visitors to consider the often taboo general topic of „death“ with specialist knowledge, research and mediation, with understanding, perseverance and also humour, and initiates discourses that offer the opportunity for a conscious confrontation with death. They were our partner for developing the Automento Mori (Todomat).
DenkRaum is a think tank at Kiel’s Christian Albrecht University, which is focussing on socially relevant issues in a transdisciplinary manner over a period of two years. At the end of the first DenkRaum round on the topic of urban design, we worked with the coordinator Dr Barbara Röckl to design an Xtopian multi-stakeholder workshop in Kiel, in which the artist Julian Willming also took part.
Urbane Xtopien 