An invitation to take part
Futureproof Festival of AI2027
Dates
Dates to be confirmed
Bring your questions. Share what you’re making. Help shape what comes next.
Location to be confirmed.
Journal dispatches
Design field note
A common alphabet, printed in ink
The Festival’s visual language begins with lettering that has weight, and a field of forms that rewards a closer look. The relationship between a solid letter and an open space gives the family its structure.
01 / Why gather
The future needs
your fingerprints.
AI is becoming part of ordinary life. What we make of it deserves an extraordinary mix of people.
Futureproof brings creative practice into conversation with the technology shaping our work and our communities. Art, research, education and hands-on experimentation offer different ways to understand the same unsettled territory.
The Festival grows through that exchange. Come with a point of view, an unfinished experiment or a question you cannot answer alone. There is room for the practical, the critical and the unexpected.
Start with a question ↓02 / Notes from the commons
Different practices.
Shared questions.
Three starting points for the conversation. Open a note, follow a thought and bring your own.
01What are we making?
A tool, an image, a piece of code or a new way to work: every experiment carries choices. Show the process as well as the polished result. The interesting conversation often starts with what failed, what surprised you and what you would try differently.
What does your practice help you notice that another discipline might miss?
Keep the practical questions in view02Who gets a say?
AI changes whose work is visible, whose knowledge is valued and who can take part. That makes it a question for artists, educators, workers and communities as much as for the people building the systems. Different experience belongs in the conversation before the answers harden.
Who is missing from the conversation, and what changes when they are heard?
Keep the practical questions in view03What do we carry forward?
A gathering matters when something continues after it: a useful disagreement, a collaboration, a better question or a small change in how we work. Bring ideas that can meet the world beyond the festival, including the people, places and living systems that bear their consequences.
What is one thing worth putting into practice when we return to everyday life?
Keep the practical questions in view03 / Being there
A place to begin.
Details to come.
Use the announced dates, places and practical details when deciding how to take part.
- When
- Dates to be confirmed.
- Where
- Location to be confirmed.
- The program
- The day-by-day program, contributors and participation formats are still taking shape.
- Joining & getting here
- The offer, inclusions, registration terms, travel and accessibility details are still to be confirmed.