A welfare state takes responsibility for its people and supports them when in need. When costs are rising, but budgets aren’t, government needs to find efficiency gains to maintain social protection levels. A government-commissioned report recently recommended ways to modernise social and welfare services, making them more people-friendly and less bureaucratic. Meanwhile, small and large projects are underway to make benefits services more fair and easier to navigate, and to make the state overall more equitable.

Die Zukunft ist ungewiss – aber wir können sie erfahrbar machen. Beim Open Lab Abend „Futures Prototyping“ lernt ihr, wie wir mit spekulativem Design und Zukunftsartefakten alternative Zukünfte erkunden und greifbar machen können.