Bring Walk the Futures your town, university, organisation, space or event
Learn more about hosting a Walk the Futures walkshop in your space, or as part of a meeting or event programme.
A participatory, place-based workshop experience exploring possible futures through walking, storytelling, and sensory reflection.
Walk the Futures is a guided, story-driven walking workshop that brings imagined futures to life in local spaces. Developed for a research project in Innsbruck, the format can now be tailored for towns, cities, and communities across Europe as part of wider research.
Each edition is locally grounded, for example, Walk the Futures: [Your Place Here], and is designed to spark meaningful reflection and dialogue on the future of your place. As an added bonus, Walk the Futures is FUN, collaborative, and gets people away from screens and into the urban landscape to notice things in new and interesting ways.
What’s involved?
As the host partner, you would:
- Invite and promote the workshop (local recruitment is essential)
- Provide logistical support, such as managing printing of materials, space for an indoor workshop (for the extended version), and a basic catering budget
- Collaborate with Suzanne to tailor the walk to your place, suggesting local landmarks and helping to define the route with your insider-knowledge.”
Suzanne will:
You can expect Suzanne to:
- Tailor the walkshop structure, content, and materials based on your input.
- Lead and facilitate the walkshop (in English or German)
- Handle ethics, consent, and any research-related paperwork
- Optionally, offer follow-up reflection or presentation on findings
Who is this for?
Walk the Futures works well with:
- Public engagement festivals or science weeks
- Museums, galleries, or cultural institutions
- Municipalities or citizen engagement initiatives
- Conferences on sustainability, futures, urbanism, public health, and more Workshops are typically designed for groups of 6–12 adults.
They can be run in English English (ideal for international or conference audiences) and German (ideal for local participants in Austria, Germany, Switzerland).
Want to learn more?
Get in touch with Suzanne and tell her a bit about your ideas (including your space/location, reason for the Walk the Futures walkshop, dates or timeline etc.) and let’s explore the possibilities. Feel free to book a call in her diary if you prefer to talk (sometimes a short conversation is easiest.)