The first of the Hybrid Festivals took place in Mondovì, Italy (2023), bringing together artistic experimentation, participatory creation, and digital connection. Over three days, the event combined live-streamed performances and collaborative workshops with citizens, blending physical presence and virtual engagement across borders. A highlight was a 24-hour performance format that unfolded throughout the city, encouraging both local participation and remote viewing.
In Graz, the second Hybrid Festival (2024) explored the intersections of memory, technology, and civic imagination. Over several days, the program delved into themes of personal digital archiving and collective foresight, inviting participants to reflect on how cities preserve and project their identities into the future. The festival culminated in launching the Citizen Archive Platform, a collaborative tool designed to safeguard shared urban histories while enabling citizens to actively contribute to their evolving story.
The Hybrid Festivals evolved into Future Festivals in 2025, marking a shift toward more tangible, community-rooted engagements. In Montpellier, this new format took shape within a historic building in the old town, where an abandoned youth hostel was reimagined as a space for cultural renewal and temporary housing. Within this restored setting, artistic residencies and architectural interventions came together under the theme of sensorial pleasure and shared experience, highlighting the link between urban revitalization, creativity, and social inclusion.
The Future Festival in Aschaffenburg continued this trajectory by introducing a temporary pavilion near the city’s historic core. Serving as both an artistic workspace and a public meeting place, the pavilion became a hub for dialogue between residents, artists, and researchers. Exhibitions, performances, and citizen-led discussions centered on themes of transformation, industry, and community participation, transforming the site into a living laboratory of ideas for the future city.
THE FUTURE PAVILION stands as a lasting symbol of these encounters—an adaptable 15 m² structure shaped by principles of reciprocity and shared creation. It offers a space for gathering, exchanging, and celebrating togetherness. Designed for assembly and reuse, it can be reconstructed in different contexts, embodying both sustainability and connection. Over time, its modular wooden frame may evolve into a greenhouse, a nurturing extension where ideas and relationships continue to grow. Economical in resources yet rich in meaning, the Pavilion reflects the essence of the Future Festivals: open, collaborative, and rooted in the shared desire to shape a more connected urban future.