Future Days

Future Days is a platform based in Lisbon that imagines desirable futures and tries to bring them into being. It started as a festival in 2024 and has since grown into a year-round organisation running a festival that brings together people from design, policy, technology and innovation, an academy that teaches futures thinking with partner institutions, and a lab working with think tanks, research organisations and maker hubs.

Its work is organised across four lenses — strategy, systems, design and futures — and treats the future as a participatory journey rather than a fixed destination, with principles such as futures are collective and design is a civic tool. Future Days is headquartered in Lisbon within the ecosystem of With Company, the design and innovation consultancy that is also its founding partner.