Speculative Wild-Posting
Design a new future on a poster
11 october
13:00 - 15:00
By Hannah Kansy & Emma Verhoeven
What future scenarios can we imagine? This workshop challenges you to speculate about the future of Cool Zuid and invites you to launch big questions into public space.
In this session, we move the insights, stories and conflicts from the previous workshops into the near and distant future. These scenarios form the starting point for a series of posters, advertisements and pamphlets that we might find in Witte de Withstraat in 2030, 2060 or 2090.
Along with the crew, you will work on devising, designing and producing the posters. Designer Hannah Kansy will teach us quick & dirty graphic print-making techniques that we can use on the spot. Then we will take to the streets for a joint wild posting campaign! In this way, we will entice passers-by to question future scenarios and invite them to reflect and discuss in which direction the neighbourhood could (or should) go.
The posters from this workshop will form the starting point for the LARP on Sunday.
Will you join us on this wild postering adventure?
Are you a resident of the Witte de Withkwartier? Sign up for this workshop for free at hello@engagerotterdam.nl
How can we find new ways of working together towards a better future? During engage 2025, we will explore this question through a series of workshops. As the Creative Research Crew, we will look for alternative perspectives on Cool Zuid from various creative angles. We will test ways in which local residents, creators and doers can work together more effectively.
Each workshop in this series generates material that we will use in subsequent sessions: from stories and newspapers to neighbourhood maps and posters. In this way, we’ll be building a collective research project step by step, with room for experimentation, imagination and discussion.
Whether you are a neighbourhood resident or not, whether you join for one session or take part in the entire series—everyone's perspective and contributions are welcome. Together, we will create a multifaceted picture of the neighbourhood and of the ways in which we can continue to work together in the future.
About
Hannah Kansy (she/her) works as a Graphic Designer, Artistic Researcher and Printmaker. With a multidisciplinary approach, her work ranges from the conception, design and production of books, magazines, posters, visual identities, digital experiences, and exhibition spaces. She is part of the interdisciplinary design collective whywhynot and currently based in Rotterdam, NL.
Emma Verhoeven is a designer and educator based in Rotterdam. Her work focuses on creating collective space and time for playful (self)reflection and experimental learning. Informed by her own creative practice, she designs and facilitates workshops at the intersection of art, research and personal development.