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Conditions to Flourish: Understanding the Ecosystem for Narrative Power
Often, hope works best alongside tools for proactively tackling future challenges. If our work becomes a catalysing force for people to imagine things they would not have been able to imagine otherwise and act upon that imagination, then that’s powerful, and for me, this is a slow form of critical activism.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
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From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations
Anab Jain • Radical Design for a World in Crisis
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“Not just replacing wrong or incomplete stories with better ones, not exactly inventing fictions further out in time, not exactly strategic foresight, futures, forecasts, or any of the related term either. A new space between all of them, with a lot more people purposefully included.”
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
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activist groups are often good at organising and campaigning, but tend to lack storytelling skills. ‘If you don’t [work to] address those underlying narratives and work to … shift them … but also create alternative narratives that are about liberation, then it’s going to be really difficult to do that work.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
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the dominant model of conducting foresight will not suffice in building new worlds that “embody deeper and more dynamic interactions, relationships, friendships, families, organizations, communities, alliances, and collectives of all kinds.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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