The 2006 answers stay in the words they were given in.
The Table of Free Voices
The table continues.
In 2006, 116 people from 48 countries sat around a fifty-metre table in Berlin and answered 100 questions. One seat was always left empty. It was for whoever came next.
Why this matters
Why we're asking again
The fractures are real. They are not the main problem. The main problem is that we stopped believing a group of people this different can work through them together.
That belief doesn't get rebuilt by agreeing. It gets rebuilt by being in relation. By hearing what somebody else carries, and finding your own question inside it.
In 2006 a group of people who had almost nothing in common sat down together in public, on the record, and took on the hardest questions anyone was asking. Not to settle them. To put themselves in relation to each other where everyone could see it. Twenty years on, those questions didn't get answered. They got more urgent. So we're asking them again, and this time the table is everyone.
116 voices, 48 countries, 100 questions, two days, one table in Bebelplatz. Every word kept.
The same questions, with twenty years of the world in between. Your response gets placed beside theirs, so we can see what moved and what didn't.
Whoever is holding this next finds what we put down. The archive only exists because people keep adding to it.
A voice carries things writing can't. A face carries things a voice can't. Use whichever gets you closest to the truth of it. All three sit in the archive exactly the same way.
What was on the table
These are the real cards from 2006. Ordinary people wrote the questions, and their name, age and city went on the card with them. Ten of them are below, waiting on you.
54 of the 100 · swipe to keep reading
Take one, or take all of them
Open any question and you'll first see how the table answered it in Berlin, on the real footage. Then it's your turn. Nothing sends until you say so.
Ten questions. Take any of them.
Now the other direction
For the future of the world.
Everything above came from 2006. This is the part that goes forward. A hundred questions got asked twenty years ago by the people who were here then. The archive needs the ones being carried now.
Keep it as a question. It goes into the archive in your words.
Optional, but this is the part that matters most. A question on its own is an idea. The lived experience behind it is what puts you in relation with somebody else. Write it, say it, or film it.
Before it goes anywhere
Everything you've put down, in one place. Read it, listen back, change anything. Nothing has been sent yet.
Your name and where you are go into the archive with your response, the same way they did in 2006. Your email and postal code never do — they're how we reach you and how we see where the table is reaching.
The response goes into the archive under the group's name, with yours as the person who sent it.
Saved on this device as you go, so nothing gets lost if you close the page.
You're in relation to them now. When the table reopens on 09.09.2026, what you just donated sits beside what was said in Berlin, on the same question, twenty years apart.