- 15 June 2023 - 18 June 2023
- Rome
Forum
The Future Factory
From 15-18 June we will come together in Rome to build the future! Activists, academics and left organisations will meet to discuss and design non-militaristic, non-antagonistic and collaborative futures.
Future Factory is a three-day gathering bringing together activists, academics and left organisations to discuss, plan and design non-militaristic, non-antagonistic, collaborative futures in which war and exploitation will be not only unthinkable, but impossible! There will be workshops, lectures, plenaries and assemblies that connect peace movements with the struggles of anti-racist and refugee solidarity movements, environmental justice, feminist, labour and social justice movements.
Registrations:
To participate in the Future Factory remember to register for each day/event:
Day 2, 16 June 2023
Forum Theater Workshop, 16 June 2023Day 3, 17 June 2023
Party, 17 June 2023
Common Breakfast, 18 June 2023
For more information on the registration process, check also TFF website.The (preliminary) programme can be downloaded on the right/below (mobile version) under 'Documents' (Future Factory Programme, PDF).
For more information on the event, please visit the Future Factory website, which will be updated in the coming days.
Future Factory is a space of connection, trust, solidarity, and resistance. Over the course of three days, we will push our boundaries and engage in collective thinking, and debating towards realising a world that paves the way for a just, peaceful and sustainable future for all.
Future Factory will harness creative and feminist ideas, building on positive alternatives that are already a reality in many societies, and envision how we might replicate and expand on these experiences going forward.
Future Factory recognises the growing sense of despair, fear, and insecurity at a time of multiple, deepening, and interconnected crises: climate and environmental crisis, global inequality, crisis of democracy, and precarious work conditions. History has shown that peace is a prerequisite for a full and dignified life. We will challenge the politics of walls and division and strengthen collective solidarity and well-being. No one is safe until everyone, everywhere, is safe.
Future Factory articulates proposals for active peace building, conflict prevention and civilian conflict management opposing the logic that grievances can only be resolved through militarism and war. We will develop and promote concepts that do not serve the interests of the weapons industry but the everyday safety needs of people and planet.
Future Factory will be a place to counter capitalism, colonialism, discrimination, oppression, patriarchy, white supremacy and racism. We will give new inspiration and power to an intersectional positive approach towards creating a life worth living.
Future Factory recognises how problematic European politics are and how they are still rooted in a colonialist logic. We will debate and organise around building a different Europe.
Future Factory will expose the links between the looming financial meltdown, austerity policies of central banks, the consequences of a flared up global war economy and precarious labor realities.
Future Factory calls on us to start now! It will energise us in our struggle for democratic and meaningful participation and against structural inequality, in stopping the advance of climate change and preventing future climate disasters.
Future Factory will bring together activists, academics, various progressive and Left organisations to discuss, plan and design peaceful and collaborative futures where war and exploitation will not only be unthinkable but impossible!Join us in workshops, lectures, plenaries and assemblies!
Future Factory is co-organised by:
// transform! europe // Transnational Institute // Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung // WILPF // CGIL // ARCIEsc Atelier // transform! Italia // Communia // IPB International Peace Bureau // CLAP - Camere del lavoro autonomo e precario // Ultima Generazione // Iratzar // Instituto República y Democracia // One State Embassy
Supported by:
// Global Justice Now //
Programme
During this three-day event we will host workshops, lectures, plenaries and assemblies in search of concepts and campaigns that will articulate proposals for peace and security that do not serve the interests of the weapon industry but the every day safety needs of people and planet.
Simultaneous English/Italian interpretation will be available for some events. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
Day #1 - Thursday, 15 June 2023
Venue: Esc Atelier, Via dei Volsci, 159
21:30 (CET): Wine and Dinner
Day #2 - Friday, 16 June 2023
Venue: Arci Nazionale, via dei Monti di Pietralata, 16
10:00 (CET): Challenging Corporate Power and Monopoly Capitalism
// workshop // Brid Brennan // Tatiana Moutihno //
11:30 (CET): Feminist Political Economy
// workshop // Federica Giardini // Nela Porobic // Heidi Meinzolt
14:30 (CET): No Care - No peace
// workshop // Heidi Meinzolt // Patrizia Sterpetti // Andrea Marikovsky // Saskia Basa
Venue: Spazio Pubblico, via di Porta Maggiore, 52
10:30 (CET): Work creates the future of Europe
// workshop // Maria Grazia Gabrielli // Gala Kabbal // Giorgio Anselmi // Andrea Malpassi
14:30 (CET):A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
// workshop // Sean Conner // Luigi Ferrajoli (tbc) // Angelica Romano // Sergio Bassoli
Venue: Sapienza University, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Via dei Mars, 78 // Room 11, Floor 3
14:00-16:30 (CET): MILLENNIALS AND POLITICS: ATTITUDES AND FEELINGS OF EUROPEAN YOUNG GENERATIONS
// workshop // Moderator: Prof. Silvia Cataldi //
// Angelina Giannopoulou // Lina Zirganou Kazolea // Dimitris Papanikolopoulos // Carmelo Lombardo // Melissa Mongiardo // Marco Palmieri // Luca Massidda, Flaminia Saccà
Venue: Communia, Viale dello Scalo S. Lorenzo, 33
10:00 (CET): Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
// workshop // Edwick Mazimure // Dafne Yeltekin
11:30 (CET): Europe's double standards: The story of the Belarussian - Polish Border
// workshop // Rut Kurkiewicz // Aigul Hakimova
14:30 (CET): "Solidarity Forever!" Working Poor and Social Unionism
// workshop // CLAP
10:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Forum Theater Workshop (extra registration)
// Natalie, Adler, One State Embassy
14:30 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Camera Obscura Installation
// Inbal Volpo, One State Embassy
15:30 (CET):Arts and Culture Brigade | Checkpoint Performance
// Osama Zatar, One State Embassy
Venue: Esc Atelier, Via dei Volsci, 159
10:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Posters Marathon & The Art Record
// workshop // Nora Garcia
14:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Posters Marathon & The Art Record
// workshop // Nora Garcia
17:00 (CET):Assembly - Open Discussion
// assembly // Niamh Ní Bhriain // Andoni Olariaga
18:00 (CET): Countering Border Regimes in Europe and Beyond
// keynote lecture // Sofian Philip Naceur
18:30 (CET): Capitalism, Labor and Migration: Contesting Europe's Future
// discussion // Raul Sanchez Cedillo // Valery Alzaga // Sofian Philip Naceur
moderation: Katerina Anastasiou// Alberto De Nicola
19:30(CET):Assembly - Open Discussion
// assembly // Pedro Chavez // Katerina Anastasiou
20:30(CET): Wine and Dinner
21:30(CET):Arts and Culture Brigade | Forum Theater Performance
// One State Embassy
Day #3 - Saturday, 17 June 2023
Venue: Arci Nazionale, via dei Monti di Pietralata, 16
10:00 (CET): A sustainable Future is Public: The example of GKN
// workshop // GKN // Marco Bersani // Hillary Wainwright
11:30 (CET): Will a Universal Basic Income bring us a dignified life?
// workshop // Ci vuole reddito
Venue: Communia, viale dello Scalo S. Lorenzo, 33
10:00 (CET): Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
// workshop //Francesco Martone // Gastivists (tbc) // NO TAP // Sofian Philip Naceur
11:30 (CET): A just future: How to bring about a green transition
// workshop // Francine Menstrum
14:30 (CET): Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
// workshop // Ultima Generazione // Scientists Rebellion
10:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade // Forum Theater Workshop
// workshop // Natalie Adler, One State Embassy (limited places - look for registration form)
14:00 (CET): Art & Political Intervention
// workshop // Ruth Katz // Sara Manfredi (CHEAP) // Nora Garcia // STALKER, Osservatorio Nomade
22:00 (CET): TFF23 Party (limited places - look for registration form)
// DJs: Peter Blackfish // LaPucci // Frank Blake
Venue: Spazio Pubblico, via di Porta Maggiore 52, Roma
10:00 (CET): Towards a Future without Sovereign Debt
// workshop // Imen Louati // Maha Ben Gadha
11:30 (CET): Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
// workshop // Niamh Ní Bhriain // Laeticia Sedou // Katerina Anastasiou
Venue: Casale Garibaldi, Via Romolo Balzani, 87
10:00 (CET): The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
// workshop // Nidžara Ahmetašević // Manja Petrovska // Matthias Monroy
11:30 (CET): A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
// workshop // Yasha Maccanico // Nadav Weiman // Andy King
14:00 (CET): Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
// workshop // Lara Alcázar Miranda // Alba Sidera // Cristina Cardín Coello // Tiaré Gatti Mora
Venue: Esc Atelier, Via dei Volsci, 159
10:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Posters Marathon & The Art Record
// workshop // Nora Garcia
17:00 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade
// Posters Exhibition // Nora Garcia
17:00 (CET): Organising for change: Common Spaces for systemic alternatives
// assembly
moderation // Christoph Aguiton, Katerina Anastasiou
18:00 (CET): Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, Collective Alternatives
// lecture // (tbc)
18:30 (CET): Collective Future: can we stop climate breakdown?
// discussion // Dottie Guerrero (online) // Nela Porobic // Federica Giardini
moderation // Barbara Steiner
19:30 (CET):Closing Assembly
// Heidi Meinzolt // Vanessa Bilancetti
20:30 (CET): Arts and Culture Brigade | Checkpoint performance
// performance // One State Embassy
20:30 (CET): Wine and Dinner
Sunday, 18 June 2023
Venue: Esc Atelier, Via dei Volsci, 159
11:00 (CET):Common Breakfast
// assembly
Exibition: Camera Obscura + Future Factory Fanzine
// Inbal Volpo, One State Embassy
Documents
