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Table of Free Voices

The Table of Free Voices

Take the seat.

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.

2006
They answered.

116 voices, 48 countries, 100 questions, two days, one table in Bebelplatz. Every word kept.

2026
You answer.

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.

2046
Somebody reads it.

Whoever is holding this next finds what we put down. The archive only exists because people keep adding to it.

Write it, say it, or film 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

A hundred questions. People sent them in.

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.

Take one, or take all of them

Answer a question from 2006.

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.

2006 2026

Now the other direction

What question do you carry?

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.

Before it goes anywhere

Your table.

Everything you've put down, in one place. Read it, listen back, change anything. Nothing has been sent yet.