Future Festival - How to Future?

How to future? What skills do we need to practice? How can we share what we know with each other? The future is often described as a far away place we have very little control over, but one day, somewhere, someone imagined that we would live the way we live today. And here we are.

We are inviting you to use the library space to imagine and practice more caring and connected futures, whether that’s in our relationship to technology, to nature or to future generations. The festival will take place from March 1st to March 14th 2026 in the Reykjavik City Library Grófin (downtown).

PROGRAM

Sunday March 1st
13:00-16:30 - OPENING CEREMONY: HOW TO FUTURE REPAIR?
13:00-16:00 – Repair Café: Electronic Repairs + more
14:00-16:00 – Hopeful Seedlings: Making Plant Pots
15:30-16:30 – Time Capsule and Open Mic: REPAIR

Monday March 2nd
16:30-18:00 – Learning to Dance with the Unknown

Wednesday March 4th
13:00-17:30 – Hopeful seedlings: Making Plant Pots
16:00-17:30 - Mint Tea Ceremony

Thursday March 5th
16:00-17:30 - Let’s Make our Dream Garden out of LEGO

Saturday March 7th
11:30-13:30 - Chat with an Accent: How to Future?
14:00-16:00 – Make a Sleeping Bag for your Phone
14:00-16:00 – A Future Society Without Ageism: Discussion

Sunday March 8th
13:00-15:30 - Between Hands, Bodies, and Land: Creative Workshop for Families
14:00-16:30 - Hopeful Seedlings: Planting Singalong!

Tuesday March 10th
16:00-17:30 – Big questions! A Game for Families

Wednesday March 11th
14:00-18:00 - Make a Sleeping Bag for your Phone

Saturday March 14th
14:00-15:30 - Imagined Futures | Creative Family Workshop with Þórey Mjallhvít, creator of Ormhildur
16:00-18:00 - CLOSING CEREMONY: HOW TO FUTURE MEMORIES?
16:00-17:00 – Future Feast for Everyone
17:00-18:00 – Time Capsule and Open Mic: MEMORIES

March 1st-March 14th - INSTALLATIONS DURING OPENING HOURS
The Data Self: Social Sorting
Time Capsule
Hopeful Seedlings
Hot Tub
Faraday Box

Future Festival Partners:  ENDURTAKK, Rik McNair, Ross McNair, The Icelandic Association for Humane Technology, Atli Þór Jóhannsson, Halldóra Mogensen, Kakkalakki Studio, Fernanda Fajardo, João Linneu, Zuzana Vondra Krupkova, Emma Shannon, Repair Café, Cerise Fontaine, Ingiríður Halldórsdóttir, Yi Jen Chang, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Alexander Jean Fontenay, The Moroccan Women's Society in Iceland, Armando Garcia, Pola Sutryk, Dögg Sigmarsdóttir, Berglind Indriðadóttir, Nílsína Larsen Einarsdóttir, Framtíðarsetur Íslands, J.J. Mancho, Patrik Ontkovic, Soumia Georgsdóttir, Vasilis Valatsos, Marie Veselá, Þórey Mjallhvít, Richard Wheeler

Further information:
Martyna Karolina Daniel, Project Manager of Equity and Community Engagement
martyna.karolina.daniel@reykjavik.is

Fanny Sanne Sissoko, Project Manager of Inclusion and Education
fanny.sanne.sissoko@reykjavik.is