AMSTERDAM.- The Jewish Cultural Quarter is launching a series of programmes exploring contemporary issues relating to Jewish identity, bringing together both public, social and cultural partners, thinkers and artists. These programmes explore different perspectives and is developed through exhibitions, public events, podcasts, publications and online content. The programme kicks off with an interactive installation in the Jewish Museum that opens on June 19.


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The installation Imagining Futures. The power of futures thinking in uncertain times explores how people, in times of crisis, have the ability and the courage to imagine different futures - and what that can mean for them.


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The installation presents several people who live in the Netherlands and have family in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank. They took part in a futures-thinking workshop in Amsterdam led by Israeli designer and peace activist Mushon Zer-Aviv and Palestinian Dutch political scientist Dana Rentenaar. During the workshop, they imagined different futures. Futures they hope for, and futures they fear. Their stories, the process they went through, and the tangible results from the workshop, are presented in the installation, both visually and audibly.

Visitors create their own future images

What changes in the world affect people’s lives? And how do they shape our ideas about the future? In the interactive part of Imagining Futures, visitors are invited to create their own ‘images from the future’ and add them to the installation. They can do this on their own using the available instructions, with the help of staff, or by joining a guided workshop.

Futures thinking as an act of hope

Mushon Zer-Aviv developed his workshop shortly after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas. Futures thinking, imagining various possible (and impossible) futures, can shift how we see the present. It helps us make choices in the here and now, and offers hope and inspiration for shaping our future.

The Jewish Cultural Quarter presents and documents the history and presence of Jews in the Netherlands. We do this from a historical perspective, in the present, and with an eye on the future.


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