The world is rapidly changing, with AI, environmental shifts, and global complexities making us rethink who we are and our place in the world. To engage with this “Future Humanity,” Ars Electronica Futurelab and Toyota Motor Corporation’s Advanced Technology Development Company explore big questions: How will people live alongside other creatures, self-driving tech, and AI? What new ways of organizing society, cities, and new kinds of journeys will appear? By blending art with technology, we’re asking imaginative questions about humanity’s future and building bold, experimental visions of what’s to come.
At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, we are launching an open research platform to bring together artists, researchers, businesses, governments, and educational groups for wide-ranging teamwork. All this will culminate in a new co-creation platform in 2026 to deepen conversations on “Future Humanity,” allowing us to continually update and refine our visions for the future.
