Culture

A man is sitting in his garden at home and works at his laptop. Photo taken: 13.09.2021.

Virtualisation for Distancing Purposes
Hybrid Working Worlds

Due to the pandemic, a third of the German workforce is mostly working from home. The concept of “new work” allows for flexible work models and a new work-life balance. David Wandjo, a research fellow in the Globalisation, Work and Production research group at the Berlin Social Science Center, takes a look at the future of the working world.

Post-Pandemic Education
“It was not lost time”

The Corona Pandemic
A Globalisation of Solidarity

Culture and Society

How a sustainable Munich might look in the future.

Constructive Climate Communication
A Discourse About the Future that Gives Rise to Hope

Positive visions of and narratives about the future are rare, yet these are precisely what we need if we are to move away from polarization and a sense of hopelessness and embrace a proactive approach. An appeal for constructive climate communication.

A painted sign in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the words "peace" and "freedom" hangs on a garden fence in the Schwabing district of Munich.

Modern Society
Freedom

The limit of my freedom is the freedom of others – what does that mean, especially today, for our modern, complex society? Armin Nassehi talks about the concept of freedom in a world that is being rocked by one disaster after another.

The dramaturge Gigi Argyropoulou and the historian Kostis Papaioannou

Greek Understanding of Democracy
The Crisis

The modern Greek state has experienced many crises in recent years. How do its citizens deal with it? The dramaturge Gigi Argyropoulou and the historian Kostis Papaioannou talk about the corona pandemic, but also about the situation for refugees in the city of Athens during a drive through the Greek capital.

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