Editorial 01/2023: Medienpädagogische Entwürfe der Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit, Zukunftsvisionen und Science-Fiction

Abstract

The main goal of science is generally the search for truth and rational argumentation. It wants answers to the question of what is given. Science seeks knowledge about the world, whereby the question of theoretical or practical evidence plays an eminent role. As a representation of what is given, only what follows certain rational rules is considered. Yet the understanding of evidence refers precisely to the opposite of a scientific mode: evidence is understood as an unquestionable proposition. But science understands itself as always expandable, never completed, always valid only at a certain moment. Conversely, fiction means a created world, for example in painting, in film or in literature. Even more, in the context of science fiction it is about creating worlds that are in a certain way temporally and spatially removed from the existing world. The result is fictional worlds in which futuristic living conditions or encounters with extraterrestrial beings are negotiated.