How can we reimagine our relationship with land and soil?
In this seminar, I’ll share the story of a four-year project in Luxembourg that brought together over 100 people – from scientists to community members – to imagine how we might live with land and water in 2045. Together, we created three possible future scenarios, each shaped by different ways of seeing the world.
The goal was simple but ambitious: to find new ways of working together for soil and ecosystem regeneration that make sense to everyone involved. We’ll explore how our different perspectives can both divide us and inspire creative solutions, and ask: how can scenario design help us move beyond today’s extractive patterns towards more regenerative futures?
Join Ariane for a fascinating talk!
Ariane König is an Assistant Professor with a research focus on sustainability science and governance at the University of Luxembourg. Her transdisciplinary research and study programme serves to create concepts, spaces and processes for transformative governance with a focus on how we engage with water and land. She equips change agents with approaches such as collaborative conceptual systems mapping, scenario work and citizen science to tap into collective intelligence and develop an enhanced repertoire for regenerative thought and action in a networked knowledge society. Critical questions hinge on the role of science and other forms of knowing in deep transformation processes. She is a member of the Luxembourg Observatory of Climate Politics and the European Statistical Advisory Committee. Prior to Luxembourg, she had held positions at the Universities of Oxford and Harvard. Her transdisciplinary approach draws on her lived experience as a regulatory affairs manager at the interface of science, the law and public acceptance in diverse regulatory and scientific cultures, and her research and training as a biochemist and genetic engineer at the University of Cambridge.
