Topcis 6th of November 2008

Communication in Change

Guide to Digital Storytelling

Communication as Innovation, with the technical possibilities of a networked world, treads a different path, a path that goes beyond existing media borders. TV, telephone and Internet converge and create new forms of communications. These will have profound impacts on both our professional as well as our private lives.

Speaker: Wilfried Ifland - Chairman of YouCan Trust

Where is the future?

Future does exist only in our imagination. Plenty of future has he who can imagine many different futures. Far and extreme futures can be a compass and filter to understand the present and its potentials. Just now in times of crisis we can save the future by exploring the plurality of futures through information, fantasy and creativity.

Speaker: Siggi Becker (Prize Winner: Grimme Online Award 2007)

Self-realisation or self- feeding?

Looking in the world from a western point of view, individualism is an important value. A value, that only sometimes matches to a responsibility to society. Other times, man prefers not to work at all, than to work in an unloved job. What kind of constructions of world exist, witch can give us some possibilities, to differ between self – realisation and egoism?

Spoken thoughts of Bigga Rodeck, social pedagogue and information scientist CompuSense