November 7 - 9 2025 | BARCELONA, SPAIN

Creativity at Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival is where creative people explore what technology means for their work and their world.

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Join us in Barcelona to celebrate 15 years of Mozilla Festival.

For 15 years, Mozilla Festival has been the home for big ideas, bold conversations, and the movement for a better internet. This year, we’re bringing that energy back to Barcelona, and you’re invited to be a part of it.

From November 7-9, we’re gathering 3,000+ technologists, activists, educators, artists, and everyday users for three days of workshops, talks, labs, and art to reimagine the role of technology in our lives.

This is your space to create differently, design boldly, and unlearn the defaults that limit what creativity can become.

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Discussions for artists exploring technology and its impact

  • Unlearning Default   Design

    Confronts the design principles and systems that fuel the technology ecosystem, re-imagining “one-size-fits-all” solutions.

  • Unlearning Traditional Profit Models

    Explores alternative profit models that are sustainable, inclusive, and community-rooted, including financial models and evolving payment systems.

  • Unlearning Power in Tech Governance

    Unpacks the hidden power dynamics in technology development, governance and regulation today.

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What to expect at Mozilla Festival

Unlearning asks us to rethink the defaults that shape technology today. At Mozilla Festival 2025, we’ll set aside old assumptions and explore new ways of working so technology serves people and planet. Together we’ll imagine bold alternatives and start building them.

Meet our headliners

  • Dr. Ruha Benjamin

    On Unlearning

    Plenary

    Dr. Ruha Benjamin

    Dr. Ruha is an enthralling storyteller, brilliant scholar, and fierce advocate for all things just. Break free from the power of digital biases and system-shaping myths. She redefines unlearning as a radical act of possibility.

  • Jason Silva

    Awe as an Antidote to the Grid

    Plenary

    Jason Silva

    Jason Silva is an Emmy-nominated storyteller, filmmaker. Step outside the algorithm and experiment with unmapping the self, as he sheds inherited assumptions and reimagines unlearning as liberation.

Session Highlights

Encruzilhadas [Crossroads] of ancestral codes: art, AI and social media
Larissa Macêdo

Case studies and a hands-on exercise where you remix algorithms with ancestral codes and create an art piece for social media.

Designing for the Edges — Rethinking Clarity, Inclusion, and Meaning with SenseLayers
Sean Gilroy & Leena Haque

Explore multimodal design that goes beyond clarity. Learn SenseLayers to reimagine content through narrative, sonic, visual, and spatial forms.

Afrofuture World-Build: Reimagining Technology Through Ancestral Design
Ingrid LaFleur | The Afrofuture Strategies Institute

Co-create Afrofuture worlds where tech centers ancestral wisdom and communal care. Storytelling and system mapping lead to liberatory prototypes.

Mozilla Creative Assemblies
Gabriel Kahan & Hannah

Co-imagine how AI can uplift art. Debate copyright vs ecosystem fixes, and design ways to protect artists’ dignity, agency, and livelihoods.

Hadithi Hadithi
Thayu Kilili & Anita Njeri | Creatives Garage

Interactive theatre co-authored by AI and the audience. Vote on prompts to steer the story and test human-machine collaboration.

Unlearning Tech-Imposed Aesthetics with your Hands
Justin | Mozilla Foundation

Participatory design lab to redraw Common Voice’s mascot. Paint, sketch, and vote. Discuss AI’s impact on art and contribute to community tools.

Debates

World-class leaders go head-to-head, rethinking the systems and norms that shape our world.

Labs

Hands-on sessions where you build new skills to grow your work and impact.

Forums

Collaborative space to unpack challenges and build solutions together.

Showcases

Discover bold ideas, meet the makers, and explore innovations shaping the future.

Talks

Deep dive into big ideas followed by a discussion

Installations

Interactive experiences that invite exploration—art, media, games, and more.