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?
https://fb.me/e/5N6BtO1HB

13:00-16:00 – Repair Café: electronic repairs
https://www.facebook.com/events/1956508951745476/
14:00-16:00 – Hopeful seedlings: making plant pots
https://www.facebook.com/events/2059640021549906/2059640028216572/
15:30-16:30 – Time capsule and open mic: repair
https://www.facebook.com/events/1437463704394898/

Monday March 2nd
16:30-18:00 – Learning to Dance with the Unknown
https://www.facebook.com/events/1712584426577235/

Wednesday March 4th
13:00-17:30 – Hopeful seedlings: making plant pots
https://www.facebook.com/events/2059640021549906/2059640024883239/

Thursday March 5th
16:00-17:30 - Let’s make our Dream Garden out of LEGO
https://www.facebook.com/events/1285036133462240/

Saturday March 7th
11:30-13:30 - Chat with an accent: to future
https://www.facebook.com/events/1600895351052486/
14:00-16:00 – Make a sleeping bag for your phone
https://www.facebook.com/events/3177911305716307/3178956128945158
14:00-16:00 – A Future Society Without Ageism: discussion
https://www.facebook.com/events/2139861370115047/

Sunday March 8th
13:00-15:30 - Between Hands, Bodies, and Land: a creative workshop for families
https://www.facebook.com/events/903120075999554/
14:00-16:30 - Hopeful seedlings: planting singalong!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1883994472486103/

Tuesday March 10th
16:00-17:30 – Big questions! A game for families
https://www.facebook.com/events/2305849829899578/

Wednesday March 11th
14:00-18:00 - Make a sleeping bag for your phone
https://www.facebook.com/events/3177911305716307/3178956125611825

Saturday March 14th
16:00-18:00- CLOSING CEREMONY: HOW TO FUTURE MEMORIES?
https://fb.me/e/6rn6g4vm9

16:00-17:00 – Future Feast for Everyone
https://www.facebook.com/events/1205012221741477/
17:00-18:00 – time capsule and open mic: memories
https://www.facebook.com/events/1181178117124474/

March1st-March 14th: Social sorting: installation
https://www.facebook.com/events/1437083034672437/

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

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