The 2006 answers stay in the words they were given in.
For twenty years, one seat has remained open.
It was never empty. It was waiting for whoever came next. The Table reopened on September 9, 2026, and that seat is still yours to take.
Your answer goes into the archive beside the 2006 voices, on the same question, twenty years later.
Now theirs
Pick one and answer it — in your own words, in your own voice, in your own form. It goes into the archive beside what was said in Berlin on the same question, twenty years apart. Nothing sends until you say so.
More than thirty thousand questions came from the public in 2006 and a hundred were put to the table. These are nine of them, numbered as they were asked.
Nine questions. Take any of them.
Before it goes anywhere
Everything you've put down, in one place. Read it, listen back, change anything. Nothing has been sent yet.
Nothing that identifies you appears in public — not your name, not your location, not your contact details.
Left empty, it reads Anonymous.
For a recording
We do this before anything is shown publicly. It is done by hand for now, so allow a little time.
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.
In by September 9 to be part of the launch.The table stays open after that — later answers join the archive too.
Your email and postal code are never published, whether you stay anonymous or not.
Saved on this device as you go, so nothing gets lost if you close the page.
✦ You're at the table now
Thirty thousand came in from the public in 2006. These are the hundred that made it to the table — the real cards, with the name, age and city of the person who wrote each one still on it. Nobody sees these until they've put something in.
53 of the 100 · swipe to keep reading
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.
Follow along
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.
What this builds is not a record of the past. It's a working body of knowledge that people can use: what a generation actually carried, in their own voices, next to what the generation before them carried. Something to teach from, organize around, challenge, and build the next thing out of. It only becomes that if enough people put themselves into it.
116 people who agreed on almost nothing sat down in public and worked through 100 questions together. Not to settle them. To be in relation while the hardest things got said.
You're answering people. Your response goes in beside theirs on the same question, and the distance between you becomes something we can both look at and work with. That is the whole method: put the difference where everyone can see it.
What accumulates here isn't a record of what we thought. It's material somebody uses — to teach with, to organize around, to challenge, to imagine from. A question nobody carries forward dies. This is how they get carried.
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.
You said it in your recording, but a sentence we can read keeps your question travelling with it — through the archive, into a search, onto a card. Your words, not ours.
Your View, Your Voice
For the future of the world.
Start here. A hundred questions were chosen in 2006 out of more than thirty thousand sent in by the public — what brings the archive into the present is the ones being carried now, and the knowledge people have to give. This is the one that moves it forward.
The question you carry
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. All forms of expression are welcome.
You're in relation to them now. What you just donated sits beside what was said in Berlin, on the same question, twenty years apart.
One more thing, if you have it in you. A hundred questions were chosen in 2006 out of more than thirty thousand. The archive needs the ones being carried now.