PROJECT INTRODUCTION
__Objectives
__The Time Travel Method
__Changing Values
__Visionary Course

FRESH WATER in Europe 2050 - TIME TRAVEL
__Location
__Participants
__Implementation

SPHERE OF ACTION
__overtures - Programme

ORGANISER
__Initiators – Project Partners

TOPIC WATER
__Status Quo
__Blue Gold
__Water Wars
__Object of Speculation__

PUBLIC RELATIONS
__Focus on Specific Target Groups
__Film: Documentation
__Book: Objective and Documentation

Fresh Water in Europe 2050 - Time Travel is part of the transdisciplinary project series overtures

CONTACT
__Germany
__Norway
__Netherlands

Method of Future Travel
In order for the action plan to be completed in advance, we will embark on our journey TIME TRAVEL WATER 2050 and devise possible scenarios for the water landscape of tomorrow. We are actually relying on Scenario Techniques for this process. This method has already been used successfully to adress economic, political, sociological, technological and social questions on the great unknown and on imponderable scenes with significance for the future.

The Scenario Method has proven itself as a powerful tool for creating future developments in politics and also in every type and size of business. It is also used for working out sustainable future strategies as well as for solving issues in crisis and risk management. Because nobody can predict the future, irrespective of the given standard of knowledge, it is appropriate to create alternative future environments with the help of this method.

Changing values
The primary aim of Scenario Techniques is to create utmost contrasting scenarios, so that a broad spectrum of possible future situations can be taken into account.
This raises the question in the case of TIME TRAVEL 2050: what shall and will, can and might be the future state of our water supply in 40 years time?
Which facets of the future are imaginable between end-of-the-world stories about world wars over Blue Gold and the last dried up well on the one hand and the ideal of an effective, clever water management on the other?

On their journey into possible futures, a group of opinion leaders from the varied worlds of science and politics, economics and technology, environment and society, together with artists, will draft strategies on how the water situation could be secured in the year 2050.

As the innovative potential of art is increasingly brought into these future projections, we will be able to create alternatives with the aim of duly undermining linear thought sequences and of exploring unorthodox strategies 3-dimensionally.
We are attempting to express a new mode of political and social responsibility for artists to replace the one lost to a large extent as a result of the demands for autonomy in western modernity in the last century.

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Visionary Course
Returning from the evoked water landscape to the immediate present, we want to examine the possible actions, innovations and decisions at regular intervals.
We can do this by using an imagined situation in a Storyboard and depending on the way of thinking, we can put it into effect or avoid it.

When we finally return to the here and now, then it is imperative that we analyse the precise difference between the current state of the world's water and the ideal vision for a liveable future.

The fatal consequences for the continuing water supply invariably become apparent when we revert to strategies that are still inadequate or follow today's laissez-faire approach. In order to sustain the water reservoirs and consequently ensure the survival of humanity and nature, it is of vital importance to create a new sense of awareness for our future responsibility and long-term behaviour.

A categorical imperative: The supply of global resources can only be regulated in conjunction with the regenerative water cycle and not contrary to it!