An ecosystem for long-term thinking and co-creation: imagining desirable futures through design.
The third edition of Future Days Festival will be a co-creative space where changemakers, creatives, and professionals from diverse sectors come together to imagine ways of navigating our futures.
→ COPENHAGEN, 10–12 JUNE 2026
The new location of Copenhagen meets Future Days along its canals. Mimicking the currents of water that come together to bring the city to life, Currents of Tomorrow will look at the many streams of futures that move and interact, reflecting on the undercurrents shaping design, society, and governance.
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Wednesday, June 10 | Around Copenhagen (9–18h)
A day of arrival and attunement. Participants explore Copenhagen as a living system, sensing local contexts, signals of change, and the currents already shaping the city. The day concludes with Night of Synergies—a special dinner to connect participants in an intimate setting (add-on, details coming soon).
Thursday, June 11 | Meeting the Currents (9–18h)
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, June 12 | Closing Rituals (9–Late night)
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).
All days | Design Week Installations
An ongoing layer of immersion. Installations invite slow exploration, curiosity, and dialogue, grounding Future Days within the wider rhythm of Copenhagen Design Week.
*NOTE: full program will be announced soon
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Speakers
Julia Watson
Julia Watson is an Australian-born designer, educator, author, and TED speaker of Greco-Egyptian-Welsh heritage, advancing climate-resilient design through Indigenous knowledge systems. Engaging First Nations ecological perspectives from a young age, she explores how human and natural systems co-evolve.
She authored the award-winning Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (2019) and Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology (2025), and founded global Lo—TEK movement, Lo—TEK Institute, and Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism.
Bas van de Poel
Bas van de Poel is a co-founder of Modem, an office for design and innovation dedicated to envisioning how forward-thinking companies and institutions can thrive amidst exponential change.
Modem approaches this mission as a think tank, collaborating with academic partners like Harvard GSD, MIT, and UC Berkeley, and as a design studio, working with clients such as OpenAI, Google, and Chanel.
Prior to founding Modem, Bas served as Creative Director at IKEA’s future-living lab, SPACE10, where he led large-scale digital transformation and sustainability programs.
Shoukei Matsumoto
Shoukei Matsumoto is a Buddhist monk and Professor of Practice at Musashino University in Tokyo.
An MBA holder and World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders alumnus, he bridges spiritual tradition with modern systems design. His work explores “Ambient Buddhism” and the ethics of technology.
He serves on the Global Future Council on Leadership and researches AI ethics as a Mercator Visiting Professor at University of Bonn. He is the author of the bestseller A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind and the forthcoming Work Like a Monk (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
Sara Gry Striegler
Sara Gry Striegler is the founder of Kindred Lab for Transitions, where she helps leaders and organisations find direction in complexity and turn uncertainty into new possibilities.
With more than 15 years of experience addressing systemic challenges across health, youth mental health and ageing, she works at the intersection of strategy, innovation and societal transition.
As former Director for Social Transition at the Danish Design Center, she pioneered futures design and mission-oriented innovation to reimagine responses to complex public challenges.
Sara is a recognised thought leader in futures design, committed to exploring new leadership principles and organisational models. She is currently in the spotlight with her book, Navigating Societal Change through Design.
→ future days 2026, 10–12 june
Full conference passes*
*If you are a participant of “Facilitating Futures Experiences“—our program in collaboration with Kaospilot—you receive a 20% discount on the current public ticket price. Don’t forget to use it! (This discount cannot be combined with other offers).
*The venue for Future Days 2026 edition will be announced in the beginning of 2026. Tickets will only be refunded in the event of major unforeseen circumstances.
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New program: Facilitating Futures Experiences
Facilitating Futures Experiences is a hybrid program (May–June) created with Kaospilot, combining their pedagogical method with Future Days’ experience design expertise. It’s for facilitators and designers who want to turn futures thinking into workshops and experiences people can truly step into.
The program blends online sessions with an in-person Experience Delivery Lab in Copenhagen, right before FD26.
Participants receive 20% off FD26 and access to the full Future Days experience.
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