<SHAPESHIFT FESTIVAL 2026>
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24.04-26.04
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SOFIA,
TOPLOCENTRALA
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SHAPESHIFT is a three-day international festival where culture, science, innovation and technology collide – giving you concentrated insight into how our cities, systems, creativity and identities are being reshaped. Come not as a spectator, but as a shapeshifter.
Every day, our lives run on patterns. Some are cultural. Some are computational. Together, they shape what we notice, what we choose, even how we imagine the future. But those patterns aren’t fixed. They learn from us as much as we learn from them. Which raises the question: When machines shape our decisions, how do we keep the human voice – our creativity, our ethics, our empathy – at the core of the loop?
This year, SHAPESHIFT treats humans not as end-users of technology, but as algorithms in our own right: makers of meaning, writers of rules, co-authors of possibility. We’ll explore hybrid intelligence where soft skills matter as much as software, where human care is built into every design, and where augmentation flows both ways—humans teaching machines, machines provoking humans.
/Maciej Zasada {PL}
_co-curator
/Karol Góreczny {PL}
_co-curator
/Yinong Dong {CN/UK}
_Innovation Director, Amazon
/Stephan Bischof {UK}
_Creative / Storytelling, Brave Duck & Robots
/Alexandre Mballa-Ekobena {CM/DE}
_Senior Manager, Advanced 3D – Adidas Originals
/Marta Djourina {BG/DE}
_Artist
/Karen Antorveza {CO/CH}
_Biodesigner & Researcher, ETH Zürich
/Merel van Helsdingen {NL}
_Founder NXT Museum Amsterdam
