The programme for GRASP Knowledge Festival 2025 is now complete – and you can look forward to two days where ideas, knowledge, and art merge into a festival you don’t want to miss. Here, political power struggles meet architectural inclusion, climate action meets radical rest, and experimental formats meet hands-on tools. You are invited to talks, debates, artistic interventions, and workshops where theory turns into practice and thoughts into action.
Explore the newly announced program highlights below and secure your ticket – Registration is only 100 DKK.
Imagine a concert that draws you into another space – not just through sound, but through presence, physical sensation, and spatial immersion. In Altering the Immersive Potential, Lars Tirsbæk and Birgitte Folmann explore Heilung’s legendary Roskilde Festival performance as a case study in how music creates total immersion. At the same time, Transformation – From a Decaying Masterpiece to a Thriving New Universe sheds light on the Viking Ship Hall, which is facing a dramatic renewal, and asks how maritime cultural heritage can inspire sustainable museums of the future.
The climate crisis affects us all – and GRASP offers both perspective and tools for action. In Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Phie Ambo presents sneak previews of her upcoming documentary on wildfires, floods, and the dramatic changes unfolding in nature right now. Housing for the Future explores how construction can reduce its climate footprint without sacrificing quality of life or affordability.
This is where Circular Cities in Practice fits in: Julian Kirchherr and Mugur Schuppler share insights from one of the world’s largest datasets on circular cities and invite participants to co-create ideas for how Roskilde can lead the way toward a more circular future. Meanwhile, visionary thinkers such as Kate Raworth, Phoebe Tickell, and Rob Hopkins invite us to Unleash Our Imagination and dream of futures where we don’t just avoid collapse but create thriving, regenerative societies.
Sometimes, the solutions of tomorrow require us to let go of what no longer serves us. In Utopia in the Ruins, a panel explores how breakdowns can pave the way for radical alternatives. Call for Rest teaches us how rest can become a form of resistance and healing in a world driven by acceleration. And A Lab Response to Wicked Problems introduces practical methods for experimenting with complex challenges – always rooted in collaboration.
Who holds the right to shape the future? At GRASP, we explore power, resistance, and new forms of community. In Co-Creation in Everyday Welfare Institutions, audiences join a fictional knowledge dinner on innovation, art, and collaboration in welfare. In Entangling the Maker in the Real World, we meet researchers, artists, and activists using design as both political and sensory action.
We travel to the streets of Bolivia in Diary from La Paz and confront Putin’s propaganda in the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin. And in Decolonizing Development, Nana Asantewa Afadzinu shows how African-led models and locally rooted solutions challenge dominant aid structures and push forward the global #ShiftThePower movement.
Discover the full festival program and get inspired by the many talks, workshops, and experiences waiting for you. Whether you’re curious about climate change, circular cities, artistic experiments, or new ways of working together, you’ll leave GRASP 2025 with fresh ideas – and the drive to put them into action.
Secure your spot at GRASP Knowledge Festival 2025 – registration is only 100 DKK!
