On the final day of the event in Halle an der Saale, the participants in the future workshop were able to decide for themselves which part of the results they would like to be included in the creative project, explains Gerstner. Gerstner chose the "Context" working group with a focus on creating the press kit and formulating the key messages: "I particularly liked the fact that we were able to take a closer look at what we had learned by presenting the content in a condensed form."
The core statements were initially developed in the working group before feedback from the plenary session was obtained and incorporated: "Over the course of the five days in Halle an der Saale, we worked on countless aspects that were important to us in our dream district 2070. We were then able to cluster these into around 20 topics. In order to formulate the core statements as precisely as possible, we summarized them further and created the final theories."
For Gerstner, it was essential to take into account the diversity of perspectives of all participants and to reflect them in the core statements. "Personally, it was important to me to take everyone's visions and wishes into account and thus present as diverse a vision as possible. Particularly important points for me were, for example, a structurally rich landscape, access to education and health, intergenerational housing concepts, but also the integration of the circular economy."
For Gerstner, holding the jointly developed results in the form of a graphic novel is a special moment: "Reviewing the impressions gained is incredibly nice. I’m already looking forwards to future projects."