CO-CREATING THE FUTURES WE SHARE
Learning, Dialogue, Imagination, Transformation
From individual growth to collective impact
We develop transformative learning experiences, creative collaborations, participatory processes, and research-driven projects across communication, technology, media, art, and social transformation.
Our work connects collective imagination and futures thinking to support meaningful, innovative and impactful social and creative initiatives.
Derya Yüksek, PhD
Transformative Communication Specialist
I am a communication and media scholar, social imagination facilitator, and transformative learning designer working at the intersections of education, creativity, technology, and social transformation. Through interdisciplinary research and collaborative projects, I create learning experiences that nurture dialogue, critical reflection, and collective imagination.
Carried out in collaboration with experienced media makers, artists, and creatives, our activities at COMMON HORIZONS combine research-based knowledge with participatory practices to explore how emerging technologies and collective creativity can shape more just, connected, and life-affirming futures.
“The futures we can imagine and create are shaped through the ways we learn, communicate, relate, and collaborate.
Every present reality begins as a shared horizon of possibility.”
Core Areas
AI & Social Imagination
Exploring how artificial intelligence can become a tool for critical thinking, collective imagination, intergenerational dialogue, and collaborative creation
Transformative Communication
Designing participatory contact zones for embodied dialogue and emotional literacy to support understanding and conflict transformation
Participatory Media
Using community media, digital storytelling, and collaborative production as a tool for expression, participation, and social change
Creativity & Social Innovation
Imagining, designing and prototyping future narratives and practices through participatory and creative methods
Peace & Social Cohesion
Education, research, and project development advancing dialogue, inclusion and collective wellbeing
Core Activities
HORIZONS ACADEMY
Featured Trainings & Workshops
Events
AI & Social ImaginationSat, Jul 18Online seminar
Art as a Contact Zone: Choreography of TransformationWed, Jul 08Webinar
Reimagining Peace Conference SeriesSat, Jul 04Online Event
Featured Projects
CREATIVE VISION
Interuniversity Innovation Hubs
Innovative science communication bridging science and society through media, arts, and technology
COLLECTIVE HEALING LAB
Simulating Pathways for Conflict Transformation
From conflict dynamics to transformative practices through AI-aided simulation and reflection
COMMUNITY MEDIA
Media, Participation & Conflict Transformation
Research, training, and participatory media-making projects for dialogue and peacebuilding
TALES OF PEACE
Workshops and Docuseries
A cross-cultural initiative exploring stories of resilience, dialogue and coexistence
HEALING A WORLD IN CRISIS
Transdisciplinary Dialogues on Transformation
Interview Series on radical imagination, collective healing, and emancipatory futures
BODILESS COMMUNICATION
Connecting the Inner and the Outer
Transformative communication using gamified and reflective tools for personal and relational growth
Featured Writings
