Escape Rooms: Kreativität und Ko-Kreation für Nachhaltigkeit: Ein Input auf dem U:FF 2026.

Escape Rooms: Creativity and Co-Creation for Sustainability: A presentation by Annett Baumast at the University:Future Festival 2026. This presentation focuses on how learning environments must be designed so that students not only acquire knowledge about sustainability topics but also practice key transformation skills. Using the example of a module at HWR Berlin, in which students independently design, implement, and reflect on escape rooms related to sustainability, I demonstrate how creativity, co-creation, changing perspectives, and dealing with complexity can be experienced firsthand. Several of the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) serve as a framework to make these skills visible and to integrate them specifically into the assignment. Participants gain insights into the course structure, examples of assignments, and concrete suggestions on how to transfer similar formats—analog, digital, or hybrid—into their own teaching. /// The sixth edition of the University:Future Festival took place from June 22–24, 2026, under the motto "Under Pressure!" The physical locations of the hybrid festival were Berlin, Braunschweig, Essen, Graz, Hamburg, and Nuremberg. The University:Future Festival (U:FF) is the largest event dedicated to the (digital) future of academic education. Topics included AI, future skills, didactics, and strategic processes. Participants enjoyed a diverse program with approximately 280 presentations from around 550 speakers! The University:Future Festival is a collaboration between the Higher Education Forum on Digitalization, the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education, and the Stifterverband (Donors' Association for German Science). The partner stages were organized by the Emerging Tech Lab and the Media Lab of the Project House at TU Braunschweig, ORCA.nrw, Graz University of Technology, Ohm University and UTN Nuremberg, and the University of Hamburg in conjunction with OERCamp. More information is available at https://festival.hfd.digital/de/