The Burning Man Festival reveals the theme of its 2025 edition

This last Friday (01), the festival The man on fire revealed the theme of the 2025 edition, “Tomorrow Today“. With a proposal to think about the future”protopic“, the festival invites its participants to think about how their individual actions and collective efforts can shape the future in a positive way.

After leaving suggestions on what the topic would be in your Instagram official, the Burning Man organization confirmed the theme of the party through a post on its official blog. The post, written by Stuart Mangrumdirector of the festival’s philosophical center, explains the inspiration behind the theme, the world’s fairs of the last century where new inventions were exhibited.

Just like these fairs, in 2025 Burning Man not only wants to showcase its culture and progress in the field of festivals, but also wants to demonstrate how the festival and its participants can cooperate to build a better future for the planet. “Burning Man is absolutely not a utopian society, and never intended to be. But it is an influential cultural movement and a social movement with unique opportunities to propose new solutions.“, writes Mangrum in his publication.

Burning Man aims to create a future increasingly focused on progress

Another principle that will guide the next edition of the festival is Protopia. In the text of his announcement, Stuart recognizes humanity’s desire to always think about its future, whether confidently and idealistically, through utopias, or fearfully and nihilisticly, through dystopias.

The director recognizes the difficulty of believing in utopias today, but also invites us to fight against dystopian futures. To resolve this paradox, Burning Man adopted the philosophy of protopia, a concept created by the writer and futurist Kevin Kellylongtime festival participant.

Protopianism proposes to imagine not a perfect future, but one based on constant progress. Maybe not without problems, but certainly better than today. “This year, the event in the town of Black Rock aims to rekindle the hopeful spirit of world’s fairs, fueled, in this case, not by consumerism, but by the mutual interest of learning from each other and advancing our collective progress towards a better future.” writes Magrum.

He concludes with a call to action, saying “When you imagine the future, what is your place in it? How will you be remembered? As a hero or as a victim? Any future we imagine will not be something that will happen to us, but rather something that we will have to make happen.“.

Source: Terra

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