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Simon Höher

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Systems Change Lead @ darkmatterlabs.org Public Design @ simonhoeher.com Writing @ simonhoeher.substack.com I like weird astro-jazz.

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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 24/09/2026
Enjoyed our @darkmatterlabs.org Heat Risk Clinic at Public Vitality Camp! We met at Teufelsberg (new all-time fav workshop spot) and explored the many interwoven themes of heat in Berlin – from collective to individual risk to what's possible from here. Bigger recap coming soon, first thoughts:
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 19/09/2026
How does Berlin turn existing capacities, lived experience and institutional action into shared long-term heat resilience, not isolated responses? V looking forward to our Berlin Heat Risk Clinic today, hosted by @darkmatterlabs.org as part of the Public Vitality Camp. luma.com/2qqjkex3
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Berlin Heat Risk Clinic · Luma
Berlin Heat Risk Clinic From fragmented signals to shared preparedness This session is part of the Public Vitality Camp 2026 and is convened by Dark Matter…
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 18/09/2026
Weird thing about today's crises - from fascim to planeraty collapse they are these slow-motion disasters: we can already foresee today what tomorrow will bring, it is catastrophic, there is even still a chance to prevent it -but we get bogged down and eventually give up even before disaster strikes
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 14/09/2026
Interesting parallel between the Rise of AI and the Rise of AfD (far right in Ger): The lamenting of the problem *is* the problem. Don't feed the troll, but make it realpolitk.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 23/04/2026
Ok, live coding an app *while using it* is wild.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 01/04/2026
When the music is to good to work to. 😩 Immanuel Wilkins' latest is SPIRITUAL..
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 19/03/2026
(Finally) starting to write / think again on Permutations – with a new series on democracy, magical realities, and charting a way beyond. This is part 1: Dead Birds Everywhere.
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Dead Birds Everywhere
Pt. 1: Crisis as Exposure
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 09/01/2026
New show is up (it's been a while)! AM008 w/ Jack DeJohnnette, Eiko Ishibashi, Hand To Earth, Sumac, Mette Henriette, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, and more www.mixcloud.com/AgainstMetho...
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Against Method 008 // 12-16-2025
AM008 w/ Jack DeJohnnette, Eiko Ishibashi, Hand To Earth, Sumac, Mette Henriette, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, and more
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 09/11/2025
Four quick thoughts on Zohran Mamdani’s victory: 1. Leaders as catalysts: A healthy reminder of the first rule of politics: A charismatic, authentic human is necessary for any movement to take root. Good leaders aren't saviours, they are convenors who make visible what was already trying to emerge.
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Jonathan Peaceman @jonpeaceman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Kurze Zusammenfassung für alle, denen das jetzt etwas viel wird: Die CDU Berlin vergibt willkürlich Gelder für Antisemitismus-Bekämpfung, u.a. an eine Immobilienfirma mit Geschäftsführer Max Mustermann oder auch an die Kollegin des haushaltspolitischen Sprechers im Parteivorstand Lichterfelde. 1/4
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 28/08/2025
New Probe: Just because we can choose, it does not mean there are no consequences to our choices. On world making, objectivity, and responsibility. A way forward for designing public institutions in an age of doubts. → open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 07/08/2025
New Post: The most sophisticated thing our organisations do isn’t solving complex problems. It’s making them look simple. The use of the many frameworks to grasp complexity is conversational: “Seek for simplicity but distrust it.” - Whitehead → open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 28/07/2025
The ease with which major (German) media now seamlessly switch from enabling Gaza's destruction to reporting on it with “deep concern” is breathtaking in its shamelessness. This is no accident. This is trauma politics in action. And it is very coherent. 1/4
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 24/07/2025
We are witnessing a new form of politics. One that flipped the script of shame, decency, and virtue. It makes transgression a guiding principle for how we govern, and renders any response to it structurally inadequate. This is trauma politics.
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Trauma Politics
From Never Again to Ever Again
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 17/07/2025
My talk on ‘Unthinkable Futures’ from #FutureDays in Lisbon is online! If you like futures, glitches and parasites → www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAq...
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Simon Höher at Future Days 2025
YouTube video by Future Days
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 25/05/2025
Ant mills are odd: everyone follows the rules but the system is collectively stuck. Without intervention they spiral to death. What could this mean for democracies? What happens when rules designed to maintain a system cause its undoing? → New post up now: simonhoeher.substack.com/p/death-by-d...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 04/05/2025
A few quick thoughts on Iberia’s recent blackout and what this means for how we govern through complexity. → open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 22/04/2025
My latest post is up: From interventions to intersections → how to move beyond the binary and back. open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 04/03/2025
PSA: 📣 Ende März bieten wir wieder unseren Kurs Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken an: Grundlagen, Methoden und viel Praxis für systemisches Arbeiten. Mit tollen Speaker:innen, einer kleinen, feinen Kohorte und viel Einblicke in die Praxis. (Viel) mehr Infos → protocol.ghost.io/offentliche-...
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Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken
Entdecke neue Perspektiven! Lerne Veränderung systemisch zu gestalten – mit internationalen Expert:innen in einem kompakten Online-Kurs im März und April 2025. Jetzt anmelden! Warum dieser Ku...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 27/02/2025
Uff. datajournal.org/schon-wieder/
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Schon wieder
Der Aufstieg der NSDAP/AfD
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 26/02/2025
Is Foresight a problem!? 🔮 My first post is up! This one is about why we should stop imagining desirable / critical / indigenous futures – and start looking for glitches instead. → open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
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Unthinkable Futures
The New is Beyond Prediction
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Wir haben die Schikanen der Polizei Berlin der letzten Wochen nicht an die große Glocke gehängt: Weil wir keine Absicht dahinter vermuteten. Seit gestern wissen wir: Die Polizei hat systematisch ALLES daran gesetzt in den letzten 30 Tagen, den Adenauer SRP+ zu verhindern! Ein Thread zum SKANDAL! 🧵
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 10/02/2025
When faced with crises, we escape to the future: We dream up positive, desirable, even critical futures to strive for—or brace for darker ones. It's how we orient our choices, set our priorities, find something worth fighting for.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 05/02/2025
Ideas evolve, recombine – and sometimes, they’re worth picking up again. I’m starting Permutations: longer reads, slower thoughts on systems, democracy, design and justice. First post is up today! Next one drops tomorrow. If this sounds fun, have a look—or even subscribe: simonhoeher.substack.com
Starting to write on the internet in 2025.
There is value in permutation.
There is surplus is change.
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Digitalegesellschaft.de @digiges.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wahlkampfversprechen bleiben (aus verschiedensten Gründen) oft einfach nur Versprechen und was im Koalitionsvertag steht, wird auch nicht immer umgesetzt. Beim Real-o-Maten könnt Ihr Eure Erwartungen an die Parteien damit vergleichen, wie die Sie tatsächlich abgestimmt haben.
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Real-O-Mat
Reality-Check statt Wahlversprechen. Positionier’ dich zu 20 politischen Forderungen und finde raus: Mit welcher Wahl wird’s auch real?
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 20/01/2025
NTS In Focus w/ Arvo Pärt is perfection. www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...
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In Focus: Arvo Pärt 10th January 2025
Playing Christian Traditional, Minimalism, Classical.
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re:publica @re-publica.com · 17/01/2025
Auch in diesem Jahr wird das #rp25 Programmteam bei der #CfP Auswertung von unseren Track Teams unterstützt. Wir stellen sie euch ab heute vor. Los geht’s mit unseren Expert*innen zum Themenschwerpunkt #Politik und #Gesellschaft 🔗 re-publica.com/de/news/die-...
In quadratischen Kacheln sind Fotos der diesjährigen Mitglieder des Track Teams zu sehen. Sie wechseln sich mit leeren Kacheln ab. In der Mitte steht übereinander "Politik und Gesellschaft". Die Kacheln sind um den Schriftzug platziert.In quadratischen Kacheln sind Fotos der diesjährigen Mitglieder des Track Teams zu sehen. Sie wechseln sich mit leeren Kacheln ab.In quadratischen Kacheln sind Fotos der diesjährigen Mitglieder des Track Teams zu sehen. Sie wechseln sich mit leeren Kacheln ab.In quadratischen Kacheln sind Fotos der diesjährigen Mitglieder des Track Teams zu sehen. Sie wechseln sich mit leeren Kacheln ab.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 13/01/2025
A few thoughts on #Interpassivity - such a fascinating idea: we outsource our emotional and intellectual engagement to others, experiencing life through their proxy rather than direct involvement.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 09/01/2025
The BridgingDictionary by the MIT's Center for Constructive Communication is very nice. And very duh. bridgingdictionary.org
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 08/01/2025
Tragedy of the non-commons.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 07/01/2025
'I for one welcome our new MAGA overlords.' 2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion. ht @fry69.dev
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 02/01/2025
20 bucks for a decade of gaslighting is god-tier levels of putting your money where your mouth is. 💀
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Vielleicht wird 2025 das Jahr, in dem wir es schaffen, mal breitenwirksam zu hinterfragen, warum wir uns tagtäglich in der BVG von tendenziöser Desinformation aus dem Hause Axel Springer zuballern lassen....?
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 24/12/2024
Very dire news coming in from Mozambique. Frelimo clinging to power, now fully detached life in reality. Disheartening it just always seems to take violence and chaos to move on from the old, toward the new.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 20/12/2024
"Maybe the judges shouldn’t be our fellow designers, but all stakeholders involved in the before and after?" Beautiful provocation on the branding of culture and the culture of branding by my dear colleagues Martin Lorenz and Emily Harris over at @darkmatterlabs
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Is Branding just a term? A worldview? A one way conversation? A creative excuse for violence?
This provocation is part of an ongoing conversation between Martin Lorenz and Emily Harris, centred on the role of design (and specifically…
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 19/12/2024
"Blaupause für ein Ministerium für digitale Transformation" → sehr interessanter Vorschlag zu Aufgaben, Struktur Voraussetzungen für ein #Digitalministerium von F5: buendnis-f5.de/publikatione...
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Jan Hegenberg @graslutscher.de · 19/12/2024
Wow Die FDP rutscht auf das Niveau von trumpesken Faktenfeinden und will jetzt Sachen verbieten, deren Namen sie nicht mal kennt. Es heißt "Umweltbundesamt" und diese Behörde ermittelt Daten, auf deren Basis dann die Politik sinnvolle Entscheidungen treffen kann (!). THREAD 🧵 (1/6)
Aussage von Marco Buschmann von der FDP: "Das Bundesumweltamt ist eine staatlich finanzierte Aktivisteneinrichtung"

"Bundesumweltamt" ist rot durchgestrichen und ersetzt durch den echten Namen "Umweltbundesamt".
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 10/12/2024
“From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.” In the past months, when looking at the dire state of the world, Mark Fisher's quote kept coming to mind. And sometimes it just becomes so beautifully obvious what he meant. #syria
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 06/12/2024
Sometimes I meet with a friend on the internet and we play each other strange noise music. Like so: www.mixcloud.com/AgainstMetho...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 06/12/2024
Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe by Sherene Seikaly:
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Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe
As we mark the 75th anniversary of the inception of the Nakba, I want to center Palestine neither as a laboratory nor a problem, but as an abundance of lessons on catastrophe, on living in the…
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LobbyControl @lobbycontrol.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Die CDU muss vor Gericht: Am 6.12. verhandelt das Landgericht Berlin nun endlich über die von uns unterstützte Klage gegen den CDU-Vorstand. Der Grund: #Merz’ früherer Lobbyverband Wirtschaftsrat sitzt dauerhaft im Parteivorstand – und darf dort mitreden. Darum geht es 🧵 1/13
Grafik von LobbyControl: Kisten mit der Aufschrift CDU, aus denen ein Schild "Wirtschaftslobby" herausspringt. Darunter: Die CDU muss vor Gericht. 6.12., 2024, Landgericht Berlin.
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 29/11/2024
Weekend read: From Silicone to Slime. Claire L. Evans on imagination as a form of computation, and the endless entanglement of our biological reality. → dark.properties/from-silicon-to-sli…
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 28/11/2024
Quick update: After a military vehicle ploughed into a crowd there is at least *some* int. reaction, with embassies of US, UK, CA, others condemning post-election violence + calling for investigation. That's not exactly *pressure*, but it's a start. There are now at least 67 ppl dead since mid-oct.
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US, Britain and others condemn escalating violence in Mozambique
The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland on Wednesday jointly condemned the escalating violence against civilians in Mozambique, a southern African nation currently embroiled in weeks of post-election protests.
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Katharina Meyer @kthrnmyr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
💥 It's that ANNOUNCEMENT time of the year again - I´m thrilled to work with all incoming infrastructureinsights.fund researchers and projects! ⬇️ Press Release: infrastructureinsights.fund/wp-content/u...
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 26/11/2024
This is great #datavis and sobering data. #BerlinerHaushalt2025
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Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com · 25/11/2024
Hey Bsky! Quick 🧵 on #Mozambique's current descent into chaos - which has been largely absent from international media (no surprises here). tl;dr: It's bad. And it's going to be very bad before it gets any better. 1/
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