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Imagining sustainable futures in Berlin
Mint New Delhi
|October 23, 2025
The Futurium in Berlin hosts exhibitions about desirable future concepts, tests them out in a lab and then creates a forum for dialogue
The cruise on the river Spree in Berlin offers a view of a shimmering building. “That’s the Futurium,” says my daughter, “we'll go there tomorrow.” The next day, a burst of yellow and red panicles of amaranth welcomes us at the forecourt of this “house of the futures”.
This independent not-for-profit space, which opened in 2019, houses exhibitions with living scenarios about foreseeable and desirable future concepts, a lab to try them out and a forum for joint dialogue.
Currently, the Futurium is hosting Super-Land, a multilevel installation featuring 240 edible and insect-friendly species such as the amaranth. This is in sync with the current thematic focus on future fields. “We chose to make our project quite low-tech and base it on healthy soil and permaculture principles. The forest garden seemed to be a perfect match,” says artist Benjamin Frick, who has collaborated with landscape designers Katharina Bohme and Lulu Dombois of Parzelle X.
This story is from the October 23, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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