Inventive/Interventive Demokratie? Experimentelle Zukunftsszenarien der europäischen "Flüchtlingsfrage"

Abstract

Wie können gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und Streitfragen sinnlich erfahrbar und öffentlich verständlich kommuniziert werden? Die Autorin nimmt experimentelle Zukunftsszenarien der umstrittenen europäischen "Flüchtlingsfrage" in den Blick, die mithilfe einer expliziten Gestaltung und Verbindung von politischen und ästhetischen Praktiken konstituiert werden. Am Beispiel der Szenarien analysiert sie, ob und inwiefern diese nicht nur als in(ter)ventive Instrumente zur alternativen Lösungsfindung auf gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Kontroversen reagieren, sondern ob sie auch der zunehmenden Fragilität liberal-demokratischer Ordnungen begegnen können.

This study draws on the particular case of experimental future scenarios of the European "refugee issue" by explicitly designing and relating politics and aesthetics. It examines whether such scenarios may be identified as in(ter)ventive devices for exploring prospective alternative solutions that contribute towards meeting challenges posed by current processes of social transformation and controversies - and if so, to what extent. Its starting point is the following observation: While these processes and accompanying complexities and uncertainties are on the rise, at the intersection of politics and aesthetics multiple, situated and adaptive practices are increasingly emerging at a (trans)local level. Heterogeneous actors intentionally and reflexively design and connect politics with aesthetics and thereby constitute future scenarios. This not only provides inquiries into specific ways of making public social changes and controversial issues by sensory and comprehensible means, it also aims at developing and mediating individual and collective social capacities to gain agency. Thus, the scenarios not only meet challenges posed by the aforementioned controversial issue of European migration policy and its future, they also tackle the increasing fragility of liberal-democratic orders.