In a society that wants the future to be faster, brighter, smarter, leaner, edgier, more convenient, more profitable, more high-tech and more automated, let’s just go (gentler).
ABOUT
Gentler Futures Festival is the celebration of design as agent of change—design that goes beyond (design) and stimulates a type of transformation that sometimes is cultural, other times social, sometimes economic, and other times environmental.
We celebrate it by gathering designers, architects, policymakers, engineers and researchers whose work weaves design with radical thinking, advocacy, community empowerment, and a genuine thirst for paradigm shift. You may call it (society-centred), (life-centred) or (planet-centred) design. At its core, it’s what holds a sense of both accountability and stewardship for the broader multitude of systems that we, as humans, shape and impact. This is what inspires us, drives us, excites us. This is what we celebrate.
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Gentler Futures Festival is a not-for-profit initiative by BY THE END OF MAY, a research and design studio exploring the roles of manufacturing and crafts in creating a (non-linear), (post-consumerism) and (anti-alienation) economy. If you are into open source design, distributed manufacturing, local making and regenerative materials, get in touch with us.
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