FROM THE STAGE
TO THE BOOKSHELF.
PAGES OF CHANGE.
Welcome to the "FUTUROMUNDO bookshelf" – the place where the thoughts and visions become tangible in book form.
Here you will find an exclusive overview of the books by our speakers who are building bridges to the future with their ideas and concepts. Look forward to the FUTUROMUNDO bookstore now: Our speakers will be on site on July 3 and 4, 2025, to sign their books and engage in conversation with you. We will let you know the exact times here in good time! For those who can't wait, click on your wish book and get it directly online.
Presented by the bookstore BUCH IM SÜDEN.
LEONARD SOMMER AND 16 OTHER SPEAKERS OF THE FUTUROMUNDO FESTIVAL 2025
MANFRED HÜCKEL
When school comes up with ideas - 100 creatives rethink learning.
Vahlen Publishing
Assuming that learning must undergo radical change in many countries around the world, Leonard Sommer has invited more than 100 creatives and educational thought leaders from 35 countries to reflect on what school should look like today as part of the CLASSROOM THINKTANK initiative.
A total of 17 FUTUROMUNDO speakers are co-authors of this book: Ricardo dos Santos Miquelino, Sascha Kurfiss, Gordon Sommer, Prof. Dr. Uta Hauck-Thum, Philippe Longchamps, Prof. Pamela Burnard, Prof. Kristóf Fenyivesi, Charlotte Graham, Christian Füller, Thomas Weis, Nina Mülhens, Jon Buchmüller, Patrick Newell, Micha Pallesche, Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel and Björn Nölte.
In more than 425 pages, the reader will find an analysis of the dilemma of our schools, norm-breaking ideas and concrete practical methods. Innovative approaches are discussed around topics such as organizational design, learning culture, the role of teachers and parents, innovative teaching methods, alternative assessment models and also the potential of innovative technologies.
10 forward-thinking schools from 3 continents that have made the change will be personally introduced by their founders or school principals. The first English edition of the book has already been sold in 15 countries. The first German edition was out of print after just 3 months.
ISBN: 978-3800672172
Lighthouses of Education.
Guidance on a school revolution.
Molden Verlag
Leuchttürme der Bildung sind Orte, die eine lebenslange Liebe zum Lernen entfachen. Sie leuchten einen individuellen Weg zu exzellenter Schulbildung innerhalb des bestehenden Schulsystems, denn: Jedes Kind hat Talent. In jeder Schule, in jeder Klasse.
Leadership-Experte, ehemaliger CCO von Red Bull und Hochschuldozent Manfred Hückel ruft in seinem ersten Buch nichts weniger als eine sanfte Revolution der Bildung aus, vom Abarbeiten an den Schwächen hin zum Stärken der jeweiligen Stärken, von bürokratischer Verkrustung hin zu einer Transformation von Schulleitung und Lehrer:innen zu modernen Leadern.
Dieser Weg ermöglicht nicht nur endlich Chancengleichheit für unsere Kinder, sondern entfacht auch ein überwältigendes Gefühl von Sinnhaftigkeit bei allen Beteiligten.
ISBN: 978-3222151064
Learn creatively with Jean-Remy von Matt and Dörte Spengler-Ahrens
MASTERBOOK
This book and the accompanying online course by Jean-Remy Matt and Dörte Spengler-Ahrens is aimed at anyone who sits in front of a blank sheet of paper or stares at a white screen and feels that their ideas are mysteriously disappearing.
Jean-Remy von Matt and Dörte Spengler-Ahrens, two of the most renowned creatives in the advertising industry, combine their extensive experience in this companion book. As creators of iconic advertising campaigns, they are among the leading figures in the international advertising world.
The masterbook serves as an in-depth supplement to the online course of the two authors. It provides valuable insights into the concepts and techniques covered in the course and allows readers to delve deeper into them. The book contains personal experiences and insights from life as a creative, tried-and-tested strategies and practical tips for implementation, and comprehensive support to optimally apply what was learned in the course.
DR. MICHAEL TRAUTMANN, SWANTJE ALLMERS, CHRISTOPH MAGNUSSEN
On The Way To
New Work
Vahlen Publishing
This book by Swantje Allmers, Christoph Magnussen, and Dr. Michael Trautmann provides a practical introduction to the key concepts and methods of New Work. What's behind New Work, what's it all about, and how does it work? It is rarely clear what exactly this means. „On The Way to New Work“ is a true-to-life and entertaining book for people who want to delve deeper into the topic of New Work. It wants to empower people for working life. It is a companion on the path to New Work and provides a solid overview as well as concrete tools to bring the term to life. The book inspires you to try and rethink new things, offering numerous starting points for what this might look like in everyday life.
ISBN: 978-380066591
PROF. MARC ENGENHART
Design and artificial Intelligence
Birkhäuser/De Gruyter Publishing
Machine-intelligent systems have long been a reality. Machine learning takes over design tasks and changes the user experience through intelligent adaptations. At the same time, there is often a lack of in-depth reflection on the theoretical foundations of AI in design.
The book highlights how the role of designers changes as machines take creative decisions and the concept of creativity is redefined. It provides fundamental knowledge about how machine learning can be used productively and ethically in the design process, shows models and procedures of AI in design, and systematically analyzes intelligent tools. This is complemented by case studies and practice-oriented chapters describing concrete applications.
ISBN: 978-3035625547
KATRIN J. YUAN,
KATRIN WINKLER, SANDRA NIEDERMEIER
AI knowledge for leaders
Schäfer Poeschel Publishing
Artificial intelligence: knowing, understanding current dynamics and aligning actions with the future. The book gives leaders a comprehensive insight into the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. It provides an overview of the technical fundamentals of AI, algorithms, machine learning and their application in the business world, the role of AI in leadership practice, and strategies for planning, integrating, and scaling AI projects. The book also addresses ethical considerations, human resource development, the development of continuing education programs to increase AI literacy, AI-supported recruiting and talent management, change management, and future scenarios related to AI.
ISBN: 978-3791064925
TESSLOFF
WHAT IS WHAT inventions. How ideas change the world
Tessloff Verlag (Author: Andrea Weller-Essers)
A lot has happened since the invention of the hand axe! New ideas, flashes of inspiration and research led to new achievements and inventions. And while many developments were quickly forgotten, some were so groundbreaking that they changed the world forever. What are the most important, exciting and funny inventions? And which ones will determine our future? How do we communicate in the future? How do we protect our environment? Ingenious inventions and creative minds are in demand today more than ever. A non-fiction book designed to encourage children to remain curious and develop their own ideas. For children from 8 years.
ISBN: 978-3788681715
UTA HAUCK-THUM
What is digitality? Philosophical and pedagogical perspectives
JB Metzler Verlag
The concept of digitality has only recently gained more attention in the cultural sciences and humanities. Unlike digitalization, which focuses on technologies, data storage and automation, digitality looks at the cultural and social realities shaped by digitalization.
This volume aims to examine digitality in more detail and to shed light on the cultural, philosophical and sociological aspects of digitized life. The focus is on questions such as: How are digitalization and digitality related? How do they change teaching and learning processes? What opportunities and challenges arise for society and universities? And how can the culture of digitality be actively shaped?
ISBN: 978-3662629888
ANNE SLIWKA
The learning school system
BELTZ Publishing
Schools in Germany face huge challenges that they cannot overcome alone. To respond productively to the challenges, a managed school system must become a learning school system-as demonstrated by particularly successful international school systems such as Canada and Singapore. The hallmark of a learning system is the cooperation of all levels involved, from the school to the ministry. In terms of content, the collaboration is based on common goals and data that the school system generates and processes well. They serve as a starting point for collective learning and decision-making processes. This breaks down the rigid administrative logic and replaces it with agile learning that enables and promotes innovation. In this way, dynamism comes into the system - not from the top down or from the bottom up, but through the middle of the school system: the place where school leaders and school supervisors learn, experiment and dare to do new things together.
ISBN: 978-3407633231
CHRISTA UEHLINGER
Being different together.
Versus Publishing
This book is a valuable guide for dealing with intercultural challenges in a globalized world. It combines current scientific models with practical examples and provides a clear structure that enables intercultural competence to be effectively built and applied.
Dr. iur. Hans C. Künzle emphasizes how the book helps to better perceive intercultural challenges. Dr. Philipp Boksberger recommends it as required reading for global citizens and those seeking orientation in a networked world. Irene Hotz Glanzmann praises the practical examples for use in workshops, and Michael Büchi highlights the understandable content, which is ideal for students.
This book is aimed at leaders, advisors, students and anyone who wants to reflect on and strengthen their intercultural skills. It provides theoretical foundations and practical tools for success in a globalized world.
ISBN: 978-3039092338
PAMELA BURNARD
ALEXANDER RIECK,
TOBIAS WALLISSER
Doing Rebellious Research: In and Beyond the Academy
23 (Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching)
LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture:
What If
BRILL Publishing
The way research and science produce knowledge and truths is changing radically. This book shows how rebellious writing opens up new academic avenues. This volume brings together scholars, artists, and activists from around the world, including social scientists, theorists, musicians, filmmakers, and circus artists. They develop new approaches to thinking, theories, and writing methods. The book encourages graduate students and supervisors in particular to radically move away from classical academic writing and offers approaches to establishing rebellious research as the future of science.
Editors: Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, David Rousell and Tatjana Dragovic
Available in English only.
ISBN: 978-9004516052
Birkhäuser Publishing
What happens when architecture, science and research merge? This book by our speaker Alexander Rieck (FUTUROMUNDO FORESIGHT) examines topics such as cities of the future, biodiversity, energy, sustainability, social architecture, digital processes and „New Work“.
In addition to the projects presented, leading thinkers from architecture and sociology contribute creative and in-depth perspectives and shed light on how these concepts can change our world. The architectural firm LAVA, founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck, develops visionary concepts that address current social and ecological challenges.
ISBN: 978-3035625561
BJÖRN NÖLTE
CHARLOTTE GRAHAM,
PHILIPPE LONGCHAMPS
A school without grades: New ways to deal with learning and performance
hep Verlag
Grades are very present when learning at school. They determine what is learned and how it is learned. This is fatal: note fixation makes meaningful learning difficult. Performance assessments with grades put a strain on the learning process. The reasons for grading are specious and outdated, but they are still being adhered to. There have long been sensible alternatives. The book shows ways to teach without grades.
ISBN: 978-3035519662
Tranformative Education.
A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning
Routledge Publishing
"Transformative Education" aims to inspire teachers in a practice-oriented way to use their teaching to turn the next generation into problem solvers and creative thinkers. The book offers practical methods for sustainable, inclusive and active teaching and examines the background of proven approaches.
The book highlights the levels of subject integration –from intradisciplinary to transdisciplinary teaching– and analyses the impact on knowledge building. The focus is on teaching critical thinking. The book is divided into three parts: methodology, practical project ideas for teachers, and a discussion of the impact of the techniques, as well as support options from school administrators.
Additional online resources with examples and videos complement the book.
Available in English only.
ISBN: 978-1032231952
FRANZISKA SCHMID,
JULIA KLEEBERGER
VANESSA BORKMANN, DIETER SPÄTH,
WILHELM BAUER
Doing Rebellious Research: In and Beyond the Academy
23 (Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching)
Center for Virtual Engineering. House of Knowledge Work.
Duden Publishing
This book awakens the spirit of invention. Glowing balloons, flashing name buttons, and talking cats: 69 great experiments waiting to be tried by children and parents. Analog meets digital: crafting, cutting, gluing, programming. Illustrations show step by step how to do it. Tinkering knowledge completes the whole thing: how the circuit, battery, LED or motor work, or how to use programs like Scratch Jr, Makey Makey, Stop Motion Studio and CoSpaces.
ISBN: 978-3411770878
Fraunhofer Publishing
The Fraunhofer IAO's "Center for Virtual Engineering ZVE" is a place for knowledge work where scientists conduct research on topics such as innovative work design, mobility, visual technologies, and digital engineering. With modern laboratories and offices, the ZVE is both a research center and a platform for innovations such as virtual reality and new work concepts.
During planning and construction, the Fraunhofer IAO contributed its own research findings and, together with the architects from ASPLAN and UNStudio, set new standards for sustainable office and laboratory buildings. For this, the ZVE was awarded the DGNB certificate in gold.
An illustrated book shows the extraordinary architecture, which underlines the innovative power and vision of the future of the Fraunhofer researchers.
ISBN: 978-3839605578
CHRISTIAN STUMMEYER
Amazon for decision makers
Springer Gabler Publishing
Amazon now holds over half of German e-commerce sales. In addition to its own sales, the Amazon Marketplace also allows other retailers to offer their products. However, many companies underestimate this sales channel – in both the B2C and B2B sectors, where Amazon Business offers great growth potential.
This book helps companies develop a suitable marketplace strategy, successfully use the Amazon Marketplace, and effectively deploy the Amazon ecosystem. Case studies illustrate the success factors with practical examples.
ISBN: 978-3658274269
KRISTÓF FENYVESI,
TUULI LÄHDESMÄKI
Aesthetics of Interdisciplinary:
Art and Mathematics
Birkhäuser Publishing
The book by Kristóf Fenivesy and Tuuli Lähdesmäki shows how mathematics and art can merge – in thought and practice. It offers exciting insights into the main ideas and phenomena of this subject area and shows how interdisciplinary approaches help to better understand cultural and artistic phenomena.
The authors cover topics such as aesthetics, art history, geometry, philosophy and ethnomathematics. They also introduce a new concept: the „interdisciplinary aesthetics of mathematical art“. This illustrates how closely the aesthetic principles of art and mathematics are linked.
An inspiring book for anyone who wants to discover the creative connection between numbers and art.
Available in English only.
ISBN: 978-3319861166
CHRISTA UEHLINGER
Intercultural Crazy Business Stories
Versus Verlag, Zurich
In the global environment, more and more people from different cultures are meeting, which means that the same situation can be interpreted differently.
This game encourages lateral thinking, shifts in perspective, and creativity by challenging entrenched patterns of thought and action. Not only does it offer enjoyable entertainment with a learning effect, but it is also ideal for lightening up seminars and training sessions, introducing topics, or as an exercise in deepening material. Even after a busy day of business, it provides fun and exciting discussions in a relaxed atmosphere.
ISBN: 978-3039091638
STEPHANIE WÖSSNER
FUTURE:GUIDE
BILDUNG
The Future Project, Frankfurt
Stephanie Wössner's Future:Guide Education takes up key social transformations and shows how education can act as a key to shaping the next society.
The publication addresses the most pressing questions:
What levers do we need to use to make education sustainable?
What changes are necessary to give children and young people a space in which they can develop the skills they need to
to be prepared for the challenges of the present and future and to actively shape this future?
How can we, as individuals, as communities and as a society, actively improve the future of education instead of just passively waiting for it?
The answers to these questions are both inspiring and action-oriented. The „Future:Guide Education“ outlines concrete strategies on how schools, institutions and organizations can use transformative trends to sustainably
transform.
ISBN: 978-3910992207
CARSTEN BANGERT
Making school successful
BELTZ Publishing
In this book, Carsten Bangert shows concrete ways in which teachers, school administrators and all other school stakeholders can successfully improve their school and the conditions there. In doing so, he clearly addresses the current inadequacies in the education system, but without focusing on them. Instead, in 66 practical action strategies, the author motivates people to make full use of flexibility in everyday school life and thus shape the school community positively together. In doing so, he addresses various aspects, such as building a learning-promoting classroom atmosphere, stress management, or even creating a motivating school atmosphere, which have already proven successful. The book thus provides a comprehensive compass for concrete changes in current school practice and shows that each: r individual has the opportunity to change school for the better.
ISBN: 978-3407633354
ANDERS INDSET
Quantum economy. What comes after digitization?
ECON Publishing
The rapid development of artificial intelligence, the first quantum computers and the automation of ever more areas of life and work will have massive implications for our future and our economic model. Algorithms become authorities and these will inevitably compete against each other. But technology alone cannot and will not be the answer to all our challenges. We humans are still the drivers and links that can control our environment, society, economy and reality.
Anders Indset develops three scenarios for the next 10 to 20 years in which our future will be irreversibly decided.
ISBN: 978-3430202725