1Future Forum with Koko Kondo.
Millbrook + Hudson, NY
August 14-17, 2026
Community conversations and business development to address the issues of our time.
The Forum is a gathering of thought leaders and cultural programming to create a more resilient regional and global community.
Haiku Haus, Millbrook, NY.
Hudson Harmonic, Hudson, NY.
Combining music, dance, food, and wellness, the weekend retreat convenes social changemakers with the artisans, educators, funders, and organizers of the region to engage issues important to local residents in Dutchess and Columbia Counties and around the world.
Guided by 1Future's Learn, Create, Share, Act framework, the Forum moves from dialogue to action.
Koko Kondo
Koko Kondo was born in Hiroshima, Japan in November 1944, the eldest daughter of Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Nagarekawa Church. On 6 August 1945, at eight months old, she survived the atomic bombing, buried beneath her collapsed home and saved in her mother's arms.
Her father was one of the six survivors whose accounts formed John Hersey's Hiroshima (1946), in which she appears as "Tanimoto's baby daughter."
She has devoted her life to peace education and human rights, serving as International Relations Advisor to the Children as the Peacemakers Foundation, and carrying a single message: it is not people we should hate, but war itself. In 2025 she spoke at the United Nations' Peace and Human Rights Week at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, and at the Community of Sant'Egidio's International Meeting for Peace in Rome.
Frameworks
A living laboratory for creativity, community and regenerative economics.
Climate actionCultural development and management: growth strategies for the Hudson ValleyWorld Peace MediaGatherings for social changeHealth and well-being during a time of overloadReal estate development to build better communitiesImmigrant justice
Schedule
Art, film, music,
well-being and hospitality.
Friday, August 14
Haiku Haus | 1221 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Dover Plains, NY 12522
Lunch
Pesto Pasta by Haiku Haus, Salad by Stonewood Farm.
Nature Walk and Forest Bathing
With Niko Drewchin.
Hybrid Business Model
Discussion on profit / non profit business models.
Ceremony & Greeting
- Welcome & Indigenous Land Acknowledgement.
- Cacao Ceremony with Shane.
- Reflections on the New Dawn and Regenerative Futures by founder at Seeding Change and Earth Elder Shane Cobb-Adams.
Introductions
"What light do you bring into the world?" Two-minute introductions.
Dinner
Indian Dinner by Rajiv Joshi of Bridging Ventures.
The Art of the Elevated Haus Party
Dress in Creative Attire Inspired by lion, fire and wearable art and enjoy cocktails, mocktails and dancing. Brought to you by Vittoria Regia and Haiku Haus.
Haiku Haus Current Exhibitions
- AI: Love in Japanese and Chinese Group Exhibition. New works by Akira Fujimoto and from the Haiku Haus collection by Peter Bradley, John Alexander, Francine Tint, John Hersey Jr., Patricia Thrane, Sarah Berney, Mihail Simenov, Tom Beale, Alfredo Correa, Yuta Tokunaga, and Cannon Hersey.
- Let's Get Elevated. An immersive installation & exhibition by Vittoria Regia exploring devotion, intimacy, sacred beauty, and the architecture of desire.
- Future Memory. Artworks by Akira Fujimoto, Cannon Hersey and Yuta Tokunaga. Based on objects impacted by the atomic bomb from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Future Memory includes bronze and brushed aluminum sculptures, paintings, silkscreens and digital artworks.
Saturday, August 15
Haiku Haus | 1221 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Dover Plains, NY 12522 / Hudson Harmonic | 21 N 6th Street, Hudson, NY 12534
Zen Meditation and Rudolf Steiner's Morning Verse
Haiku Haus | 1221 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Dover Plains, NY 12522Networking, Relationship Building & Donor Development Meetings
Hudson Harmonic | 21 N 6th Street, Hudson, NY 12534Exer-motive Dance
Hudson Harmonic | 21 N 6th Street, Hudson, NY 12534With Indira AuMaitre.
Community Dinner by Little Rico
Hudson Harmonic | 21 N 6th Street, Hudson, NY 12534Live Music, DJ Selections & Film Projections
Hudson Harmonic | 21 N 6th Street, Hudson, NY 12534- DJ Music by DJ WWWE, Todd Sines and Olliedhali.
- Future Memory Projections by Yuta Tokunaga, Cannon Hersey and Akira Fujimoto.
Saturday Working Groups
- Eight focused tracks across three core fields. Each group leaves with one concrete proposition, a designated convener, and a clear next step.
- Stories, Memory & Peace: World Peace Media; Hiroshima 8:15; Art for Social Change.
- Place, Ecology & Belonging: Infrastructure for Impact; Convening for Change; Cultivating a Climate of Peace.
- Leadership, Learning & Livelihoods: Eleanor Now; Humane Tech & Youth.
Hudson Valley Cultural Excursions
- 10:30 AM - Curator's Tour at Innisfree Garden. Innisfree | 362 Tyrrel Road, Millbrook 12545. Curator's tour of Millbrook's magical Asian influenced garden. Need to register.
- 4:00 PM - Vagabond Time Killers play with Freya and Akicita Hersey. Wassaic Project | 37 Furnace Bank Rd, Wassaic, NY 12592.
- 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Art Omi. Art Omi | 1405 Co Rte 22, Ghent, NY 12075. Art Omi is an arts center located on 120 acres of sculpture park in New York's Hudson Valley.
- 8:00 AM - Sunset - Olana House. Olana House | 5720 NY-9G, Hudson, NY. Explore 250 acres of views, art, and architecture by Frederic Church.
- 12:00 - 5:00 PM - The Campus. The Campus | 341 NY-217, Hudson, NY. Just outside of Hudson in a school left vacant since the 1990s, the project represents an unprecedented collaboration between six New York galleries: Bortolami, James Cohan, Kaufmann Repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and Kurimanzutto.
Sunday, August 16
Haiku Haus | 1221 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Dover Plains, NY 12522
Morning Coffee & Tea
Breakfast
Sponsored by Babette's Kitchen.
Koko Kondo with Cannon Hersey
Hiroshima Atomic bomb survivor Koko Kondo talks about her father's lost memoir Hiroshima, 8:15 recently published by Penguin / Random House, her global peace work, and her reconciliation with the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Nature Walk and Forest Bathing
By Niko Drewchin.
Liberation Capitalism and Peace Industrial Complex
- With Chris Dykstra and Gayle Peterson.
- Chris Dykstra of Brown Venture Group shares practical strategies on leveraging tech ecosystem investment to empower communities of color and drive sustainable economic equity.
- Gayle Peterson, Director of Social Finance at Oxford University's Said Business School, brings 25 years of experience equipping world financial leaders and non-profits to invest in social good.
Bio-Mimicry, Architectural Design in Real Estate for Social Change
In discussion with local and global real estate projects working to build better communities, Architect Yuko Nagayama shares her experiences of building Cartier Woman's Pavilion and Panasonic Pavilion at World Expo, and now working with Nature's design inspires reusable architecture projects.
Lunch
Arepas by Indira AuMaitre and Haiku Haus team.
Envisioning the New Dawn
- With Earth Elders Mindahi Bastida, Shane Cobb-Adams, and Atsushi Imai (Digital + In Person).
- Rooted in Indigenous land stewardship and ecological science, Earth Elder Mindahi Bastida, a member of the Otomi-Toltec Peoples of San Pedro Tultepec, Lerma, Mexico, brings a pragmatic, hopeful perspective to navigating modern environmental realities and visions of ecological renewal.
- Based in Anahola on Kauai's Koolau moku, Shane Cobb-Adams brings a deep background in native Hawaiian healing arts and watershed restoration, trading environmental anxiety for actionable, land-tested community design.
- 1Future partner, experience strategy and development accelerator, Atsushi Imai speaks about his world caravan project to share wisdom and co-develop business in indigenous communities.
Future of Storytelling and Media
Combining voices across documentary and drama filmmaking, gaming and immersive and social media communications, explore the future of storytelling with Taku Nishimae of 1Future, Tony Patrick of Innergallactic and Grant Brenner of M Create.
Luddites in the Age of Technocapitalism
Summer of Ludd co-creators Isabella Cooper and Bucky Baldwin offer a Luddite critique of AI and technocapitalism, opening the floor for a shared exploration of responsible use of technology.
Closing Circle
Center in stillness before delivering experience back out into the world.
Dassai Blue
Hyde Park, NYTicketed event at Dynamic Hudson Valley Restaurant Four Corners from Chatham, NY does a unique pairing with Dassai Blue Sake.
Monday, August 17 (Addendum)
Haiku Haus | 1221 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Dover Plains, NY 12522
Spiritual Swap Meet
Guided meditation with Allie Canton of Spiritual Swap Meet.
1Future South Africa
With Dumisani Phakathi and Refiloe Mnisi from South Africa joining the conversation digitally.
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Video
1Future Forum 2019
A moving-image record from the earlier 1Future Forum.Forum2019
Sponsored by
Hersey Family, 1Future, Earth Elders, Haiku Haus, Dassai Blue, Bridging Ventures, and Babette's Kitchen.
Hosted across private residences and local creative hubs.Team & Partners
Organizers, partners and collaborators.
Organizing Team
Indira AuMaitre Hersey, Shane Cobb-Adams, Oliver Correa, Rick Corrado, Rajiv Joshi, Faith Green, Cannon Hersey, George Langa, Chris Dykstra, Mariana Loumiet, Taku Nishimae, Kevin Rowell, Stephanie Bryant, Shohei Yamane, Olga
Partners & Collaborators
Conscious Color, Dassai Blue Brewery, Earth Elders, Bridging Ventures, Babette's Kitchen, Haiku Haus, Hudson Harmonic, Soil and Sky, and more.