Louisa Kastner

Louisa Kastner joined Fraunhofer ISI in May 2025 as a scientist and PhD student in the Foresight department. Louisa is particularly interested in how routinely used assumptions about the future in participatory learning contexts can be rethought from other frames of reference in order to make alternative visions of the future imaginable and to enable transformative learning. Her particular interest lies in exploring the conditions under which disruptions to anticipatory routines can be sustainably transformed into a stabilisation of Futures Literacy, and thus into alternative options for action.

Louisa completed her Master's degree in Futures Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2022. Her Master's thesis focused on the development of an ideal-typical ordering scheme for generating the reframe in Futures Literacy Laboratories. Previously, Louisa studied International Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and the École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur in Paris.

Prior to joining the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Louisa worked in both the private and educational sectors, with a particular focus on approaches and opportunities for capacity building in strategic foresight and futures studies methods.

Since 2023, Louisa has been teaching in the Master's programme in Futures Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.