Congress Centre at Lake Constance // Kongresskultur Bregenz

The congress of the future will push arguments instead of agendas, and let the outside world join in.
Philipp Ikrath // youth culture researcher
The original congresses were events of collective thinking, commenting and discussing. Being there was worth all the hassles of travel, participants felt.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schulze // sociologist
Congresses geared to the way the brain works are careful to provide settings in which the heart and mind can learn simultaneously.
Michael Gleich // journalist
Nobody should be forced to participate, but everyone should feel challenged to do so: participation as a demanding, strategically creative challenge.
Andrea Thilo // culture mediator, moderator
Congresses should offer space for process. Rather than everything being predetermined, space should be given to what emerges.
Andrea Hofmann // architect
The congress of the future will deliberately do without knowledge transfer and learning methods that are individually organisable.
Hans-Joachim Gögl // curator, communication expert