Designing Imagination Practices
You're warmly invited to join us at the first meetup of DesignDesign: a new space to explore critical, alternative, and emergent design practices.
For this event, we’re starting with big questions:
What shapes imagination? And how can we challenge and expand the practices of imagining itself?
🎤 “Designing Imagination Practices” with Markus Kreutzer
Our guest speaker Markus Kreutzer will offer a provocation on imagination as a conditioned and conditionable act. He will invite us to reflect on how experiences, values, and ideologies shape what we’re able to imagine, and how we might open space for imagining otherwise.
🔍 Workshop: Mapping the Invisible
We’ll introduce Countermapping, a method for making visible the stories, systems, and relations that are often left out of conventional maps. Through this practice, we will explore how mapping can expand what we are able to imagine.
⏰ Agenda
Arrivals and registration
“Designing Imagination Practices” by Markus Kreutzer
Introduction to Countermapping
Mapping the Invisible (group activity)
Reflection and networking
✨ What to expect:
A new community space for critical, practical, and future-friendly design
Tools and prompts to reframe the practices of imagining
Connection with like-minded creatives, researchers, and change-makers
This event is free and open to designers, researchers, academics, activists and others in-between who are interested in the topic.
🗓️ Date: 3 July 2025
🕕 Time: 18:00–21:30
📍 Location: Spreefeld, Option Raum 3, Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, Berlin
We look forward to seeing you there!
About Markus Kreutzer
Markus Kreutzer is a designer focused on exploring possibilities for systemic transformation, a research associate at Fachhochschule Potsdam and a lecturer at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. Most of his work engages with the intersection between social, technological and ecological transformation. By exploring alternative pathways to current trajectories he attempts to create discourse, enable negotiation and facilitate action. He is specifically interested in the role of human imagination for individual and collective behaviors. Markus regularly publishes drafts of emerging thoughts and engages in a range of activities such as projects, publications, courses, talks and discussions. Some organizations he worked with include the Stockholm Resilience Centre, moovel lab, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Domestic Data Streamers, Emerging City Lab Addis Ababa and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Markus has a MA in Futures Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and a BA in Communications Design from the HTW Berlin.
Follow Markus' newsletter for thought-provoking articles: https://markuskreutzer.substack.com
About DesignDesign
DesignDesign is a community to share, learn, and discuss approaches, methods, and techniques that collectively shape how we design. It is initiated and organised by Dominik Markušić Gross and Freddie Sukprasong, cross-disciplinary designers based in Berlin, Germany.
DesignDesign aims to support designers, researchers, and thinkers who are exploring future-friendly, ethically grounded, and systemic approaches to design. Drawing inspirations from disciplines like anthropology, critical theory, ecology, and futures studies, it’s a place to reimagine not just what we design, but how and why we design.