New additions to the GRASP Festival program examine how storytelling, technology, art, and social movements shape our visions of the future — and how hope can be transformed into action in a time marked by crises and change.
With today’s program announcement, we move further into questions surrounding technology, communities, climate, and alternative ways of living and creating together. Through talks, artworks, workshops, and film screenings, we explore how new ideas and communities can open up different perspectives on the future.
How do we imagine the future in a time shaped by crises, technology, and global transformation?
In this year’s new program events, artists, researchers, and activists explore how hope can emerge through new narratives, communities, and ways of taking action.
In the talk Weaving Hope in a Time of Crisis, researcher and activist Vasna Ramasar explores how social movements and communities around the world are already working to create alternative futures through care, regeneration, and collective action.
Technology and AI also play a central role in this year’s program. In Future Visions for AI in Culture, participants discuss how artists and cultural institutions can develop more human-centered and pluralistic visions for AI as an alternative to the dominant narratives of the tech industry. Meanwhile, Bytes vs. the Planet? highlights the sustainability dilemmas of our increasingly digitalized lives.
This year’s program also includes artistic and sensory formats. With the wool collective Hedestrik, the focus shifts toward slowness, craftsmanship, and community through a workshop and a large collaborative artwork created from raw wool and folk dance.
We also explore how hope can be turned into concrete action and resistance in a world marked by climate crisis, conflict, and polarization.
At this year’s festival, you can experience Portuguese lawyer and climate activist Mariana Gomes, founder of the climate litigation organization Último Recurso. In the conversation Law in Service of Nature, she joins Helena Reumert Gjerding to explore how law and climate lawsuits can be used as active tools in the fight for nature and the climate.
The program also includes two film screenings in collaboration with The Why Foundation, where personal stories from Myanmar and India focus on faith, conflict, identity, and human resilience.
The program for GRASP Festival 2026 will continue to grow toward October, with more talks, art projects, workshops, film screenings, and experimental formats continuously being announced.
From October 1–3, the festival brings together artists, researchers, activists, practitioners, and participants at Musicon in Roskilde to explore new ideas, communities, and conversations about the future. Here, art, knowledge, and action come together in a program that invites reflection, participation, and new perspectives.
You can already explore the announced program and secure access to all three festival days.
