Futures Garden artefacts are both supporting EU policymakers to imagine alternative futures and touring festivals & events across Europe to inspire collective visioning. Join us to co-create the future, or organise your own ‘watch party’ and share your thoughts and ideas at JRC-EU-Policy-Lab
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (JRC-EU-Policy-Lab[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu).
Festivals and conferences
- 29 June 2026 - Long Term Art Projects Symposium, Oslo, Norway
- 20 -21 April 2026 - PolyFutures Conference, Brussel Belgium
- 15 October 2025 - Cities and Regions Forum, EIT Culture & Creativity, Amsterdam Netherlands
- 18 – 19 September 2025 - Reclaiming Hope, Nova Gorica Slovenia
- 30 April - 2 May 2025 - Future Days, Lisbon Portugal
- 25 - 27 April 2025 - Shapeshift Festival, Sofia Bulgaria
- 9 November 2024 - Berlin Science Week, Berlin Germany
- 19 - 27 October 2024 - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven the Netherlands
- 1 - 2 October 2024 - International Design in Government, Helsinki,Finland
- 5 July - 30 August 2024 - 3Portes Gallery, Ioannina Greece
- 13 & 14 June 2024 - Waterkant Festival, Kiel Germany
- 13 June 2024 - Citizens Engagement Festival, Brussel Belgium
- 6 April 2024 - Techfuse, Ioannina Greece
- 21 – 23 March 2024 Future Days, Lisbon Portugal
- 16 – 20 March 2025 - Future-Creating Festival: Health and Wellbeing for Future Generations, Leuven Belgium
Special event
- 3Portes Gallery special exhibition powered by TechFuse in Ioannina Greece, from 5 July to 30 August 2024, discussing the Futures Garden artefacts. Sophia Fardella and Tassos Kaliakatsos curated the exhibition and invited 14 artists to share their thoughts. Check out the work.
Awards and mentions
- Futures Garden won a Notable mention at the Speculative Design Award, Core77 Design Awards 2024. The Core77 Design Awards annually celebrates the richness of the design profession as well as the insight and perseverance of its practitioners.
Publications
- Futures Garden – Using Speculative Design to Inspire Policy Making; World Futures Review, Volume 17 Issue 1-3, January/September 2025
- FUTURES GARDEN - David Martens, Reclaiming Hope: Navigate (un)certainty, imagine better futures, Published by Centre for Creativity / MAo, Nova Gorica, 2025
- How To Synthesize the Future - Futurity Systems (paywall)