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My mission as a futurist: making desirable futures more likely.

Under this motto I work as a generalist on very different projects, often with workshops and research: as a consultant for clients, a researcher out of curiosity, an activist on grant money. I'm based in Berlin, often on the road across Germany and available worldwide.

Jonas Drechsel

Five areas

White Mirror

Dreaming with open eyes: the counter-idea to Black Mirror.

White Mirror is a method for future stories that make real tensions and room for action visible. It starts with worldbuilding, a world with its own logic, captured in a world profile. Begun in 2024 as a blog post on Einbildungskanal, developed in 2026 into a guide for newsrooms in the Future of News Fellowship at Media Lab Bayern.

youngk

A freelancer collective for better futures work, business with purpose.

At youngk, Agency³ has three meanings: an agency of more than 20 freelancers, the capacity to act that images of the future create, and the right team for every project. It rests on the 3K: Kompetenz (competence) from science, Konstruktion (construction) from futures studies, Kommunikation (communication) from design futuring. Co-founded by Jonas Drechsel.

Critical Futures Studies

Where are we looking at futures from today?

Critical futures studies asks how images of the future come about: from which assumptions, world views and myths, in whose interest. If you know the foundation, you can shift it and find alternatives beyond seemingly probable futures. Jonas Drechsel co-initiated the German-speaking community: network events since 2023, a podcast, a lecture series at HS Niederrhein.

Missionswerkstatt

From workshop method to movement: people get started without waiting for permission.

The Missionswerkstatt takes people from a personal mission to concrete room for action. Afterwards they connect in the Missionswerkstatt community and find allies, and individual missions grow into thematic teams. A project of D2030 e.V., developed by Jonas Drechsel and Johannes Wirz, freely available as a method handbook.

Working together

Workshops, research and process facilitation.

Working with Jonas Drechsel means clarifying the question first, then choosing the method. He asks and wants to know exactly, until your assumptions about the future become negotiable. Depending on what your question needs, the work disrupts, dreams, experiments or just gets going. Method-agnostic, with a clear stance, as a futurist since 2018.

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Today I get paid for exactly
what my teachers
used to hate me for …

Disruptdream

Try solutions beyond the textbook.

Just get going, even if nobody gave me permission.

100+workshops facilitated

I get called in when an organisation
has no clear picture yet of where to go.

Berlin Symposium on Cultural Education, 2025
Berlin Symposium on Cultural Education, 2025 ↗

Profile

Experience
Futurist since 2018, self-employed since 2012
Education
MA in Futures Studies, FU Berlin, 2020. Robert Jungk scholarship, Salzburg 2020
Roles
  • Board member, D2030 e.V.
  • Project lead, Missionswerkstatt
  • Co-founder, youngk
  • Co-initiator, Critical Futures Studies community
  • Lecturer, HS Niederrhein
Before
Co-founder of a startup for creative freelancers, 2013 to 2017, exit in 2017. Our demand: a day rate of at least 300 euros. My startup story (in German)
Funded by
White Mirror by Media Lab Bayern, the Missionswerkstatt by Postcode Lotterie, E.ON Foundation, DFL Stiftung and Stiftung Bürgermut, D2030 by DSEE
Currently

As of October 2026

On desktop, everything is laid out as a board you can move around freely.