Future Days 2026: Currents of Tomorrow
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
📅 10–12 June 2026
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The Future Days festival returns for its third edition in Copenhagen, bringing together designers, futurists, policymakers, creatives, and changemakers to explore how we imagine and shape desirable futures.
Positioned as an ecosystem for long-term thinking and co-creation, Future Days blends futures thinking, design, art, and civic innovation to create immersive experiences around emerging societal challenges.
The 2026 theme, “Currents of Tomorrow,” draws inspiration from Copenhagen’s canals and waterways. Just as water currents converge to shape the city, the festival explores the multiple streams of change shaping design, governance, and society.
Program
Wednesday, 10 June – Sensing the City
Participants explore Copenhagen as a living system, identifying signals of change and emerging dynamics across the city.
The day concludes with Night of Synergies, a curated dinner experience designed to foster meaningful connections among participants.
Thursday, 11 June – Meeting the Currents
A day of convergence. Voices, ideas, and disciplines meet through talks, debates, labs, exhibitions, and shared encounters, making visible the invisible flows shaping our collective futures.
Friday, 12 June – Closing Rituals
A day of integration and release. Talks, debates, labs, exhibitions, and rituals weave insights into collective memory, culminating in a closing party for those who wish to stay until the very end of the program (ticket add-on)
Speakers
The lineup includes leading voices across futures thinking, design, technology, and culture:
Julia Watson – Founder of Lo—TEK Institute
Bas van de Poel – Founder of MODEM
Shoukei Matsumoto
Sara Gry Striegler – Founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions
Imandeep Kaur – Founder of Civic Square
Lori Baldwin
Anab Jain – Co-founder of Superflux
What to Expect
Future Days combines traditional conference formats with immersive experiences:
Talks and panels
Futures labs and workshops
City explorations and installations
Networking and collaborative sessions
Design Week installations across the city
The festival aims to create a co-creative environment where futures thinking becomes tangible, connecting imagination with real-world experimentation.
Tickets
Several ticket options are available:
Learning Pass (€320) – for students and early-career participants
Regular Pass (€420) – full access for professionals
Group Passes – discounted rates for teams
Late Bird (€520) – last-minute tickets
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Future Days positions itself at the intersection of design, futures thinking, and societal transformation, offering a space for exploring the undercurrents shaping our shared futures.
Future Days is a festival dedicated to futures and systemic thinkers, innovators, creatives, purpose-driven organizations, and policymakers, all with a shared vision of shaping the future of urban life and fostering equitable societies. The event focuses on creating futures that go beyond technology, exploring how we can collectively drive meaningful change.
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