Simulating futures to explore what comes next

March 26th, 2026
→ Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

Shaping the Transition

This evening invites you into the heart of how societal transitions unfold. What do they demand of organisations, communities and decision-makers shaping the world ahead? And how do we engage when the path forward is uncertain?

Rather than a traditional conference, the programme is designed as a shared experience that blends dialogue, participation and futures-led design.

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A societal transition is a long-term, structural shift in how societies organise themselves, from energy and food systems to economies, institutions, and cultural norms. These transitions are rarely planned or controlled. They emerge through many interacting choices, tensions, and experiments over time.

Societal transitions are not abstract ideas. They are lived, contested, and designed in real time.

Understanding societal transitions is essential to building a more sustainable world. While sustainability often focuses on targets and solutions, transitions invite us to pay attention to how systems shift and how people respond. For those working in sustainability, this becomes a question of agency:

how do we stay connected, move with uncertainty, and create space to explore what might be possible?

From dialogue to futures simulation

Derk Loorbach

Director of DRIFT

Michel Scholte

Co-founder of TruePrice and the Impact Institute

Krizna Gomez

Co-founder of Rogue Union

Agenda

Join us at 6:15 pm on March 26th at Tolhuistuin

6:15 pm

Walk-in

6:30 pm

Program start

An interactive evening combining dialogue on societal transitions, participatory debate and a live futures simulation.

 9:30 pm

Program end

AFTERWARDS

Drinks & Convos

The transition momentum lies in three things: awareness, urgency and alternatives.

Derk Loorbach, DRIFT

Simulation allows us to not just think about the future, but live in it, feel invested in it, and do something about it today.

Krizna Gomez, Rogue Union

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Contributors

Futures & Sustainability is shaped by a growing network of thinkers, practitioners, and creatives including Loes Damhof, Indy Johar, Ben Robinson, Shishani, and Rae Charmaine who contribute their perspectives, practices, and energy to our events and workshops.

We collaborate with people across futures thinking, sustainability, design, culture, and systems practice — bringing different ways of seeing into the room.