Rotterdam Change Days 2025: At work in the Ruins

In the spirit of the classic Berlin Change Days format, we have invited contributions from change practitioners – long standing community members and curious new companions alike – who are ready to explore questions of leadership, culture, learning and group dynamics through the logics of the unimaginable.

We are offering many workshops that stir the soil – experiments, provocations that give shape to new change practices within and beyond the organisational playground. That move us toward what Hine calls building good ruins. 

This means starting from where we are – tasks that acknowledge our entanglements with the multi-perspective troubles we are in:

• Salvage the good that we may take along from the world that is ending.
• Mourn the good that cannot be taken with us.
• Notice the things that were never as good as we told ourselves they were.
• Notice dropped threads that may be picked up again – forgotten skills, overlooked wisdoms, practices that once fell out of fashion, but now glimmer with relevance.

These tasks – quiet, strange, or surprisingly familiar – might offer ways of living and working in the ruins of our times.

All the contributions take the form of on-site, experimental and experiential inquiries – rooted in art, in the body or in the natural world. Grounded in science or spirituality, in indigenous worldviews, collective knowing, or poetic imagination. They offer a space to listen, to feel, to move – to explore something you don’t yet fully understand.