Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur
Cases
2015
The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels represents the interests of the German book publishing industry. Facing massive changes within the publishing industry caused by digitalization, new...
2014
Digital Bauhaus is an annual summit for the creative economy. Set in Weimar, home of the original Bauhaus, it focuses on a specific topic each year and features hands-on workshops, keynote talks,...
2013
2012
Allianz AG commissioned us to conduct a co-creation workshop on "The Future of Mobile" at the NEXT12 innovation conference. We collaborated with Sylvie Reinhard (CEO of the Lift Conference).
2011
Daimler's Finance & Controlling division hired ZIA to prepare and put on their annual internal summit for senior management, which had a thematic focus on current global trends and their impact...
From Sketch is a monthly webvideo format we developed for ARTE Creative, the interactive online network of French-German public-service broadcaster ARTE. In each episode of the series we invited an...
Trend Update is the official monthly business periodical of the Zukunftsinstitut, published by the futurologist Matthias Horx.
2010
In cooperation with their IT services division and the Douglas Holding Academy, we produce a series of top management meetings on digital trends and future technologies for the retailer DOUGLAS Group.
Creative.NRW, initiated by the Ministry of Economics of North Rhine-Westphalia, asked us to develop and conduct a scenario workshop exploring the future of the creative industries and the cultural...
2009
The Nationaltheater Mannheim invited us to develop a hit play that would bring a broader clientele to the theater. For the project – code name "Lorem ipsum" – we adapted the classic Beckett play...
We were invited by the Goethe-Institut New York to present Slow Capitalism: The Slime Economy, a weekend-long participatory festival playfully investigating the contradictions of a capitalism on...
Telepronto was an improvised collaborative lecture performance presented at the conference "The Performance of the Lecture on the Web" in Hamburg in 2009.
2008
We conduct an annual team retreat focusing on future trends and organizational development for Daimler's M&A department.
On behalf of Bertelsmann Foundation, the largest privately operating non-profit organization in Germany and major holder in the Bertelsmann AG, we conceptually developed and edited a book focused on...
Domain Name Scrabble is an entertainment format involving improvised startup pitches we created for the blogger conference re:publica in 2008.
2007
In the summer of 2007 we organized the festival 9 to 5 – Wir nennen es Arbeit. Over the course of three nights and two days a large and diverse group of participants explored new forms of...
Das Geschäftsjahr 2006/2007 – Eine kurze Geschichte der Zentralen Intelligenz Agentur is a documentary about the rise and fall of Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur.
2006
Powerpoint Karaoke is a show format that extends and revolutionizes the traditional and widely despised Powerpoint presentation. Participants are asked to lecture spontaneously on the slides of a...
ZIA's visual designers Martin Baaske and Thomas Weyres have created unique covers, illustrations, and book designs for various books written by ZIA members.
ZIA invented and launched the live and participatory show Onkel Milgram's Open Mike. It combined popular open mike/poetry slam contests with the infamous 1961 Milgram experiment.
2005
Riesenmaschine is a collaboratively operated award-winning blog that embraces the idea of progress and engages critically and humorously with social and technological trends. For years Riesenmaschine...