About Muslim Futures

With Muslim Futures, our ambition is to create spaces where imagination leads. In an increasingly destabilizing global context, where climate, economic, and social crises expose the limits of current systems, people across disciplines are beginning to ask: ‘What kind of society do we want to live in?’ And more importantly: ‘Who gets to imagine that society into being?’

Muslim Futures enters this conversation with a clear intention: to center Muslim positionality as a generative lens through which we expand and reimagine the possibilities of the future. Islamic thought, ethics and art hold rich, often overlooked resources for building futures rooted in justice, care and sustainability. Within this project, originally initiated by Ouassima Laabich in Berlin, we’re attempting to expand the bounds of reality.

At a time when inclusivity, equity, and environmental responsibility are increasingly invoked as core societal values, this project seeks to contribute to – and elevate – that discourse by asking: what happens when Muslim voices, visions, and traditions are placed at the center of collective future-making?

In collaboration with six emerging Muslim artists, we are beginning a journey of speculative imagination: envisioning alternative futures where Islamic principles are not only embraced, but where they serve as blueprints for a more just, more interconnected, and more spiritually grounded world.

Muslim Futures is, at its core, a celebration of hope, resistance, and the radical power of the imagination.