Future Box Oceans available again

The third edition of the Future Box Oceans is now available: the interactive educational box from Futurium and DAM for use in schools can now be ordered again as a printed version.

How do we want to live with the oceans? How can we treat the seas, coasts and oceans in such a sustainable way that we secure our natural resources? With these and other questions, the Future Box Oceans provides a playful glimpse into our future with coasts, seas and oceans.

The Future Box Oceans uses a workshop format with various question cards to enable participants to develop desirable future scenarios for our lives by and with the oceans. The card sets are designed for schools of all types from Year 7 onwards, but are also suitable for adult education formats. The aim is to inspire participants to take an interest in the oceans and encourage them to think for themselves and discuss possible futures. Teachers are to be supported in anchoring future-relevant methods and content on the topic in their teaching in the long term.

A Future Box Oceans contains a total of five different card sets as well as methodological instructions for creating future scenarios. The materials are based on methods from futurology, education for sustainable development and design thinking. Since the end of 2023, the Future Box Oceans has been registered as an official activity of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Ordering/ Download

The printed version of the card sets and instructions in a sturdy box is available free of charge from the German Marine Research Alliance upon request by email to kontakt@allianz-meeresforschung.de.

The Future Box Oceans can also be downloaded as a print template from the German Marine Research Alliance website: Link

The German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) brings together 24 leading German marine research institutions and cooperates with strategic partners to strengthen the sustainable management of coasts, seas and oceans. It is funded by the German federal government and the northern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.

Futurium is the house of futures. Here, everything revolves around the question: How do we want to live? In the exhibition, visitors can discover many possible futures, discuss them together in the forum and try out their own ideas in the Futurium Lab. We already know that we will have to overcome major challenges in the future. Opened in September 2019, Futurium therefore aims to encourage all visitors to engage with the future and help shape it.

Contact for enquiries

Dr Ute Wilhelmsen
German Marine Research Alliance
Head of Core Area Transfer
Tel.: +49 (0)30 235 96 27 0
Email: wilhelmsen@deutsche-meeresforschung.de