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Bilder der Zukunft in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Wie entstehen Bilder der Zukunft? Wer schafft sie und wer nutzt sie? Bilder als designwissenschaftliche Befragungsform

How can we manage to design positive images, which are able to compete with end-time and catastrophe scenarios? Thinking about our future, pictures will appear automatically. These pictures can and will give hints for our fur-ther activities. For this reason the formal aesthetics of so-called pictures of the future are an important experimental field for design science. On one hand the question is posed which kind of pictures we have got and on the other hand who generates these pictures. The design of future is a social challenge and therefore the visualization of a possible change plays a great role to show possibilities of identification and projection. To work on this domain is a great task for the designers.