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).
Exporing the transformative power of design to address the complex challenges of our time
Gentler Futures is a not-for-profit initiative gathering creatives, innovators, and changemakers whose work weaves design with radical thinking, advocacy, community empowerment, and a genuine thirst for paradigm shift.
We cultivate spaces for reflection, experimentation, knowledge-sharing, and dialogue—inviting diverse and emerging voices to actively reimagine how we design, live, and thrive in balance with ecological systems. Our vision expands sustainability beyond environmental concerns to embrace the social and economic dimensions of community well-being.
ACTIONS
We blend spaces to inspire and empower communities to collectively imagine and co-create futures.
We blend spaces to inspire and empower communities to collectively imagine and co-create futures.
ACTIVITIES
You may call it (society-centred), (life-centred), or (planet-centred) design. At its core, it’s what holds a sense of accountability and stewardship for the wider systems that we, as humans, shape and impact. This is what inspires us, drives us, and 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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Co-funded by
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Institutional Partners
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