In advance of the Future Festivals Summit that will take place at Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) as part of MUTEK Montréal, The New Real Director Drew Hemment boldly imagines on what festivals could be. Flushing out the ‘Festival As Lab’ concept he developed as the founder of Manchester’s FutureEverything, Hemment outlines six “trajectories” for festival makers to explore—and make their events engender exciting “new ways of living, playing, and governing.”