Sciencefiction permits us to approach science as an experimental playground. Can we consider tinkering with gender, race and lifeforms as a symbol for our own longings? Do we dare to accept the challenge to be different and multiple, somewhere between ’science’ and ’fiction’?

Lectures
Students of Pedagogic Science option Social Work, from the University of Ghent, UGent (in Dutch): The story of the future.
Liz Williams: Smoke and lamplight: transformation and identity in science fiction.
Tine Lievrouw: Medical assistance and welfare work in the future: imagery in science fiction.

Screening
Gattaca (USA 1997, Andrew Niccol)

Encounter
Mara Mattuschka and FC Poppesnor: Exchanging blood for celluloid