Future Festival

photo collage of people doing things in the library

The Future Festival is an annual event organized by the Reykjavík City Library where we learn and practice skills together to live in caring futures. The program is created each year in collaboration with many partners and explores diverse forms of learning and collective imagination. We use our hands, brains and whole bodies to form connections and shape the world we want to live in.

2026

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 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.

2025

Imagine a future 100 years from now...

You are moving through your community: how do you get around and what surrounds you? Is it quiet? Are there people around? Animals or plants? What tools do you have in your bag? Where do you rest and what did you eat that day?

More information:
Martyna Karolina Daniel
Project Manager – Equity and Community Engagement
martyna.karolina.daniel@reykjavik.is

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